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SUPPLEMENT. 



(t>.) /. 2 uniflora Fischer. — There are plants in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden." 

 C. nummtdaria. Page 872., after the paragraph headed "Derivation,''' insert: 



" Synonymes. C. elliptica Hort. ; Eriobotrya elliptica Lindl., Lin. 



Trans.; J/cspilus Cuile Hort. 

 B72. To the paragraph headed " Spec* Char^ Src." add : " It bears numerous 



berries, which are black when ripe." 

 C.lafvis Loild. There is a plant bearing this name in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 arboretum, which appears to approach C. numinularia ; but, as we have never 

 seen cither flowers or fruit, we cannot speak decidedly. 



Varus communis. Statistics. 888.. add before "in Scotland," &c. :" In York- 

 shire, at Doncaster, there is an old pear tree in the garden belonging 



to one of the houses in the High Street, which, tradition says, was 



planted by Charles I., who in one of his progresses dined at this town. 



Though much decayed, it bears annually an abundant crop of small 



brown fruit." 

 P. variolosa. 891., add to " Spec. Char., tyc. : " " The young seedling plants 



of this species, Mr. Gordon informs us, have their leaves cut like 



those of Crataegus Oxyacantha." 

 P. MichaiixW. " There are plants of this species in the Horticultural 



Society's Garden." 

 P. (Mdlus) prunifolia. 892., in the list of Engravings, dele the words "and 



the plate in our Second Volume." 

 \\)rus (Malus) dioica. 893., add to " Spec. Char., #v.;" "Mr. Gordon 



informs us that there are plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden." 

 The Little grey Ermine Moth. 906., after the second paragraph in p. 907., 



insert : — 

 " It is a peculiarity in the history of this insect, that it is not only social 

 mi the caterpillar state (fig. 2463. a), but that it retains its sociality during 



period of its pupation (b), the cocoons being formed within the web 



whirh had served l'<>v the, abode of the caterpillars. These webs are quitted 



time to t.iuic, and new encampments established at short distances 



Otbl i ; bence, each brood constructs several webs in the course of 



terpillar state; the reason of which is, that, the caterpillars do not quit 



to feed, but. only eat such leaves as are enclosed in each web. 



