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Page 39, line 14. After " Maine," add : Nuttall. Echo Lake, Franconia, New 

 Hampshire, Tuckerman. 



Page 71, line 23. Linum Boottii; add syn. : L. sulcatum, Ridddl (an older 

 name which has been overlooked). 



Page 78. To Vitis vulpina, add : Bark close, not separating in shreds, as in 

 the other species. 



Page 118. To Potenfilla frigida, add habitat: Alpine region of the White 

 Mountains {Bobbins) and of Mount Lafayette (Tuckerman), New Hampshire. 



Page 132. To Jussiaea, add : — 



2. J. repens, L. Glabrous or nearly so ; stem creeping, or floating- 

 and rooting ; leaves oblong, tapering below into a slender petiole ; flowers 

 large, long-peduncled ; calyx-lobes and slightly obcordate petals 5 ; pod 

 cylindrical, with a. tapering base. Tf. — In water, Illinois, Kentucky, and 

 southward. 



Page 136. Opuntia vulgaris, var. ? Eafinesquii, now distinguished by Dr. 

 Engelmanu as a species, under the name of O. Eafinesquii, grows from 

 Wisconsin to Kentucky and southwestward. 



Page 143. To Saxifraga, add : 



9. S. stellaris, L. var. comdsa, Willd. Leaves wedge-shaped, 

 more or less toothed ; scape a span high, bearing a small contracted pan- 

 icle ; many or most of the flowers changed into little tufts of green leaves, 

 the perfect flowers with a free reflexed calyx ; petals unequal, lanceolate, 

 white, mth two yellowish spots on the base, which is narrowed into a dis- 

 tinct claw. — Mount Katahdin, Maine, Beu. J. Blake. 



Page 169, after line 13 from bottom, add : 



9. POLYPRBMUM. Corolla and single style very short. Pod many-seeded, locu- 

 licidal. Leaves slightly connected at the base, very narrow. 



Page 174, add : 



9. POLVPREMtTM, L. Polyprbmum. 

 Calyx 4-parted, persistent ; the divisions awl-shaped from a broad scari- 

 ous-margined base. Corolla not longer than the calyx, almost wheel- 

 shaped, bearded in the throat ; the 4 lobes imbricated in the bud. Stamens 



