PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 

 Page 967., add before Chap. LIV. 



" CHAP. LIII.* 



2569 



OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS 

 REAU M URIA* CE/R. 



OF THE ORDER 



Reaumitna hypericoidcs Willd 

 Spec., 2. p. 1250., Bot. Reg., 

 845., and our figs. 2472 and 2473. 

 i/ypericum alternifolium Labill , 

 has fleshy leaves, somewhat lan- 

 ceolate, flat, rather remote. A 

 shrub from 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, a na- 

 tive of Syria, in arid places ; intro- 

 duced in 1800, and producing its 

 rose-coloured flowers from June 

 to October. 



R. vermiculata Linn. Spec. 754., has the leaves subulate, semiterete, imbri- 

 cated, and crowded on the branches. It is an elegant little shrub, a native 

 of Sicily, Barbary, and Egypt, on the sea shore. Flowers white or pale 

 red. Introduced in 1828. "The leaves of both species are dotted, and exude 

 globules of a saline alkali." 



2472 



(?ACTA V CE,E. 



Qpuntia vulgaris. 967., after the 

 references add : " and our 

 fig. 2474." Add to the end 

 of the paragraph : "The 

 fungi found on it are : 

 SphaeVia TiincB Spreng., 

 and S. Cacti Schivein. — 



m. j. Br 





2475 



GROSSULA V CE;E. 



Ribes. 968., end of paragraph headed " Description" introduce : — 



" Fungi. These are : Polyporus Ribis Schum., Cenangium Ribis Fr. ; C. 

 repandum Fr., on R. petra3 x um ; SphaeVia strumella Fr., S. vestita Fr., S. 

 Ribis Tode, S. uberiformis Fr., S. Grossulariae Fr., and S.?ibico\a,Fr., on leaves; 

 Cytispora Ribis Ehr., Dothidea ribcsia Fr., Didymosporum truncatum Corda, 

 Uvedo Ribesii Lk. sub Ccem., iEcfdium Grossulariae Dec., Puccinia Ribis Dec. 



—m. j. Br 



R. lacustre. 976., dele the last sentence, beginning "Sir W. J. Hooker," &c. 

 R. multijiorum Kit. 980., to the list of Synonymcs, add : " R. tntifolium Hart." 

 981., R. prostrdtum, its variety, and R. resinosum, Mr. Gordon informs us, 



