ADDITIONS AND COllUECTlUNS TO VOL. II. 479 



Page 44. Insert the following new genus of Cnicifa-cc : — 



20». STANFORDIA. 

 Pod linear, somewhat laterally compressed ; valves thin-membranous, concave, 

 carinately 1-nerved. Seeds in 2 rows, small, wingless : cotyledons incumbent, 

 3-parted. Sepals concave and carinate, more or less colored, unequal, the lateral 

 somewhat broadly gibbous-saccate. Petals included, without claws, ovate at base, 

 narrower toward the rounded summit, strongly undulate. Anthers straight, linoar- 

 oblong. Style short, with broad divergently 2-lobed stigma. — Annual, erect and 

 branching, nearly glabrous, with toothed leaves. 



1. S. Californica. About a foot high, sparingly pubescent at base Avith short 

 simple spreading hairs : lower leaves oblanceolate with dilated petiole, obtuse, cre- 

 iiately toothed, 2 inches long, tlie upper lanceolate, sessile and clasping, acutely ser- 

 rate : flowers in a loose raceme, on hairy pedicels 2 or 3 lines long, deep purple 

 becoming pale : calyx 3 or 4 lines long : petals obpanduriform, somewhat cordate at 

 base, equalling the sepals : stamens included : pods an inch long or less : seeds 

 roundish, about half a line long ; middle lobe of the cotyledons the larger. 



Found near Tulare, Mrs. A. E. Bush. A very remarkable genus, allied to Tropidocarpum, to 

 the Chiliaii Schizopetalon, and in some respects to Grcggia, but peculiar in its calyx, corolla, and 

 in the division of its cotyledons. It is named in honor of Leland Stanford, Esq., a prominent 

 Californian, and patron of the " Botany of California." 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



TO VOL. II. 



Page 2. 1. MIRABILIS. 



1. M. multiflora, Oray. Root very large : flowers open from four o'clock in 

 the afternoon till nine in the morning. 



3. M. Californica, Gray. This species is referred by Bentliam iK: Hooker (Gen. 

 PI. iii. 4) to Oxi/baphus, distinguishiug that genus by a short campanulate or funnel- 

 form perianth, and the involucre enlarged and veined in fruit. 



Pages. 2. RUMEX. 



2. R. hymenosepalus, Torr. Stem scarlet, 2 or 3 feet liigh, from a foscicled 

 cluster of large tuberous roots. — R. Saxei, Kellogg, Pacif. Ihiral Press, June, 1879. 



Banks of the Santa Anna P.iver, near Anaheim i,A. IF. Sao-c) ; near Los Angeles, in both dry 

 and damp localities, Mrs. A. E. Bush. The stems and leaves have a pleasant acidity and arc used 

 in California, as in Utah, under the name of AVild Pie-])lant. Tlie roots arc said to be giithered 

 in Texas for tanning purposes, and the plant is known there as "Canaigre." 



Page 10. 3. POLYGONUM. 



In character of section Avicularia read : — styles 3, deciduons. 



12^ P. BidwellisB, Watson. Smaller, with short dense spikes, the large con- 

 spicuous 2-lol)ed scarious and chaff-like stipules (2 lines long) equalling or exceed- 

 ing the bracts, entire or slightly lacerate-toothed at the summit : flowers somewhat 



