ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 445 



1. P. ramosissimum, Xutt. A shrub, 2 to 6 feat liigh, very inucli liranched, 

 with grayish bark and slitirt rigid branchlets : leaves narrowly oblanceolate, attenu- 

 ate into a very short petiole, acute, 1 or 2 inches long, somewhat silky-pubescent, 

 sparingly denticulate : flowers appearing with the leaves, on short pedicels becoming 

 a hall-inch long or more, pale rose-color, three-fourths of an inch broad : calyx-lobes 

 lanceolate, about equalling the turbinate tube : styles elongated, tonicntose : fruit 

 globose, fleshy and edible, 4 or 5 Hues in diameter : seeds coniijressed, acutely mar- 

 gined : cotyledons orbicular-cordate. — Torr. it Gray, Flora, i. 474. 



Lassen and Modoc Counties (/. G. Lcmmon) ; Blue Mountains, Oregon [Natlall, Casick) ; 

 Southern Utah, Silcr, Palmer. 



Page 190. 28. CANOTIA. 



Ovary seated upon and connate with a much thickened fleshy base broader and 

 longer than itself, with it broadly ovate. Ovules usually G in each cell, in 2 rows. 

 Seeds 1 or 2 in each cell. — Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. xii. 159; liothrock, JJot. 

 Wheeler's Expl. 81, t. 1. 



Now referred by Dr. Gray to the Rataccce-, as the nearest alliance. Traces of the oil-glands 

 characteristic of that order are with difficulty detected in the sepals and bracts. 



Page 195. 1. SAXIFRAGA. 



§5. Stems somewhat leaf u : leaoes reniform-cordate, lohed: calyx-camjiamdate, 

 coherent with the base of the ovary : stamens 5. 



10. S. ranunculifolia, Hook. Somewhat glandular-pubescent above, nearly 

 glabrous below, slender, a foot high or less : leaves 2 to 1 inch broad, 3-parted, the 

 cuneiform segments obtusely cleft ; cauline leaves few, the upper simply 3-lobed or 

 reduced to a sessile lanceolate entire bract ; axils of the radical leaves bearing numer- 

 ous oblong bulblets : flowers in a small corymb, white, the obovate petals twice 

 longer than the acute calyx-lobes : calyx campanulate in fruit. — Fl. Bor.-Am. 

 i. 24G, t. 83. 



Spanish Peak (Mrs. E. M. Austin) ; Kettle Falls, Washington Territory (Douglas) ; Fraser 

 Eiver Valley, Macoun. Referred to as a synonym, with doubt, under Boykinia occidcnlalis. 



Page 196. 2. BOYKINIA. 



3. B. rotundifolia, Parry. Stem villous-pubescent and glandular, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, leafy : leaves rounded or broadly ovate, large (2 to 4 inches broail), crenately 

 incised and toothed, thin, nearly glabrous above, the petioles very villous, slightly 

 dilated and hairy at base ; stipules small or wanting below : peduncles axillary and 

 terminal ; flowers short-pedicelled, secund on the few elongated branches : i)etals little 

 exceeding the acute calyx-lobes: calyx broadly urceolate in fruit. — (-liay, Proc. 

 Amer. Acad. xiii. 371. 



Along water-courses, San Bernardino Mountains, Parry & Lcmmon, July, 1876, n. 113. 



Page 201. 8. HEUCHERA. 



3. H. pilosissima, Fis(;h. & Mey. "Western Arizona, Palmer. 



S\ CHRYSOSPLENIUM, Linn. 



Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary ; lobes 4 or 5, obtuse. Petals none. Stamens 



8 to 10, very short, on the margin of an evident disk. Ovary 1 -celled, 2-lobed 



above ; styles 2, short, recurved. Capsule compressed, obcordate, 2-valved at the 



top, with 2 parietal placent;v, many-seeded. — Low decumbent herbs, glabrous and 



