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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO VOL. I. 



succulent, with petiolate crenate leaves, no stipules, and small solitary axillary 

 shortly pedicelled flowers. 



About 15 species are known in cooler and mountainous regions, chiefly of the northern hemi- 

 sphere, growing in swamps and brooks. Three species are North American. 



1. C. glechomaefoliuin, Nutt. Stem slender, rooting at the lower joints: 

 leaves opposite, or tlie upper alternate, roundish or ovate, abruptly cuneate at base, 

 crenate-dentate, 2 to 6 lines long, about equalling tlie petioles : flowers about 1 or 1 ^ 

 lines long, rather exceeding the pedicels : seeds comparatively large, ovate, brown, 

 shining. — Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 589. 



On a tributary of Redwood Creek, Klamath County, F. Rattan. 



Page 202. 9. PARNASSIA. 



2. P. fimbriata, Banks. Reported in the San Bernardino Mountains, Parish. 



Page 203. 11. CARPENTERIA. 



Calyx 5 - 7-lobed, adnate to the middle of the subdepressed 5-celled ovary. Petals 

 imbricate in aestivation, tardily deciduous. Filaments flliform, very numerous. Style 

 short and thick, bearing 5 oblong 2-lobed persistently connate stigmas. Capsule 

 free except at base. — Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. xv. 42. 



1. C. Californica, Torr. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, the short petiole dilated 

 at base and narrowly amplexicaul : inflorescence cymose, the peduncles subtended 

 by ovate-lanceolate sessile bracts : flowers white, fragrant ; petals cuneate-obovate, an 

 inch long. — Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. vii. 110. 



On King's River, Fresno County, Br. G. Eiscn. 



12. WHIPPLEA. 



1. W. modesta, Torr. Humboldt County, very frequent {V. Rattan); Willa- 

 mette Slough, Oregon, J. Howell. 



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3. R. Lobbii, Gray. Humbug Hills, near Yreka {E. L. Greene) ; Willamette 

 Slough, Oregon {J. Howell) ; Vancouver Island, J. Macoun. 



Page 209. 1. TILL.a3A. 



2^ T. peduncularis, Smith. Much branched from the base, the ascending 

 stems about an inch high : leaves linear-oblanceolate, 1 or 2 lines long : flowers 

 nearly sessile, the pedicels becoming in fruit 4 to 6 lines long and very slender : 

 carpels purplish, truncate, equalling the petals and twice longer than the triangular 

 sepals. — 1)C. Prodr. iii. 382 ; Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 531. 



Santa Barbara, Mrs. Elwood Cooper, May, 1879. Chili and Buenos Ayres. 



2. SEDUM. 



2. S. spatulifolium, Hook. San Bernardino Mountains {Parry k Lemmon) ; 

 Plumas Ciiunty, Mrs. Austin. Petals narrowly lanceolate, 3 or 4 lines long. 



4. S. obtusatum, Gray. Calyx broadly campanulate : leaves very thick. 



6. S. variegatum, Watson. Stems slender, 2 to 6 inches high, from a thick 

 tuberous rootstock : radical leaves linear-oblanceolate, attenuate at base : flowers in a 

 spreading cyme, the petals 2 or 3 lines long, and sepals usually green, — San Diego, 

 £>. Cleveland ; May ajid June. 



