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Page 204, second line from bottom, for "ppecius " read " species " 



" 206, sixteenth line from bottom, for " Delphinum " read " Delphinium.'' 

 " 214, sixth line from bottom, for " chrsanthemifolia " read "chrys- 



anthemifolia." 

 " 235, eighth line from bottom, for " he considers " read "they con- 

 sider. ' ' 

 " 236, sixteenth line from bottom, for "California " read " Californian " 



Note on Viscainoa geniculata (Kell.) 



Dr. Watson, in the latest of his Contributions, recognizes Viscainoa while 

 stating that it is nearly allied to Chitonia, and the latter genus being known 

 to me only by description, I accept the opinion of one who must be more- 

 fully informed upon the merits of the case, and the advisability of retaining 

 two monotypic genera so closely related. 



It was supposed that the notice of this plant on page 228 was free from 

 ambiguity, biit as misapprehension seems to have arisen, it is here ex- 

 plained that in the state of uncertainty as to its relation to Chitonia, the 

 names were all Italicised in the order of their dates. A similar plan was 

 followed in the case of Marah minima, the present position of which, in 

 classification, I had not time to determine. 



The history of Viscainoa is as follows : Described first by Dr. Kellogg, 

 Proc. Cal. Acad., ii., 22. Noticed by the present writer in List of Dr. Kel- 

 logg's plants, Bull. Cal. Acad., i., 133. Distributed as Chitonia simplici/olia 

 by C. K. Orcutt; Dr. Palmer's distribution I have not seen. Described as 

 Viscainoa by Mr. V,. L. Greene, in Pittonia i., 133, and classified on page 

 208 of the same publication in the list of Cerros Island plants. In both the 

 two places last cited, the genus is referred to Euphorbiaceae, next to Sim- 

 mondsia, impliedly in the first, and directly, although the flowers were then 

 known, in the second. This view was not, however, original with the 

 author, as one would suppose from the text. Tbe following label, in Dr. 

 Kellogg's well-known handwriting, which accompanies the original spec- 

 imens, and dates back at least ten years, shows conclusively to whom the 

 credit should belong: 



Veatchia fruticosa, K. (? in abeyance) Cerros Island, Dr. Veatch. Simarubeeel — think 

 not. jBupftor6iac?<E most likely. NB. A former notice in vol. ii., Proc. Cal. Acad., p. 22, 

 under Stapkylea ? geniculata K. — which it certainly is not. 



