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ERRATA. 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 



Page 24, line i^. Mr. Baker gives 150-1S0 as the number of leaves of 2^. 

 recurvifolia. 



" 26, " 5. They are alivays thus tipped, much more sparingly in 

 some species than in others; hair usually i-celled, 

 sometimes articulated. 



" 27, " 20. The ovules of T. Treculiana are among the thickest of 

 any. 



" 28, " II. Read "does" for "seems to." 



" 29, " S. Dr. Engelmann found the pods of Y. aloifolia, Trecu- 

 liana, baccata, and brevifotia, perforated and the 

 seeds eaten by the larvae. 



" 32, " 17. Read "2.0" for "2.5." 



" 33> " 23. They reach nearly to the same northern latitude, 



*' 34, " 27. Add to "floribus," " pendulis." 



*' 42, " 22. Leaves of young plants nearly flat, whence discrepan- 

 cies in descriptions. 



" 46, " 2. Dr. Wislizenus ascribes to them the same height. 



" 26. They rather belong to or near Y. angustifolia ; only 

 the fruit will decide. 



" 48, " 2>7)- Read "subnudis" for " nudis." 



Yucca spitiosa, HBK. n. gen. i. 289, is made up of the 

 flower of a Yucca and the leaves of Dasylirion aero- 

 triche. (See p. 24, note.) 



Yucca acaulis. HBK. ib., is a Fourcroya. 



Yucca f parvijfora, Torn Bot. Mex. Bound. 221, consti- 

 tutes the genus Hesperalqe, Engelm. King Bot., 40th 

 par. 497. 



" 81, " 14. Strike out the " a." 



" 121, " 3d from bottom, for "w" read "^ ." 



" 349> " ^2, for '^fcoparius" read '■'■furcat" 



" 35i> If 3> I'ns i> after ^'' Globe- Democrat" add ''correspondent from 

 St. Joseph." 



" 382, line 3d from below, read "Wheeler's" for "Whipple's"; other 



errata in this article are corrected on 

 p. 387 and farther on. 



"390, " nth " "■ " "Pluk." for "Pluck." 



" 428, " 15, read 22h. instead of 22d. 



" 430, " 2, " 248 " 24. 



" 432, " 3. " +412 * " —412. 



''' 433. " 2, " +692 " —692. 



" 434. " 2, " -f7i5 " —715- 



" 435. " 5. " +M-8-f759 " -6. 



"436, " 3. " +38+40+791" -38. 



" 448, " 4 from below, read "were" instead of "was." 



" 450, " 13, read" — 43" instead of " — 41." 



