PART III. ARBORKTUM AND FUUTICETUM. 



2583 



Prostanthcra lasidnthos. Page 1284., 

 add : "and our Jig. 2519." 



FerbenaVeaj:. 



Vitexincisa. 1286., add : " This plant ,', 

 is in the Horticultural So- ^ 

 ciety's Garden." 



Clerodendrum speciosissimum. 1286., 

 add to the paragraph : " This 

 has since been discovered to 

 be the same as C. squamatum 

 Vahl, Bot. Reg., t. 649. A 

 native of China; and intro- 

 duced in 1790." 



Aloysia citrioddra, in the garden of 

 Sir Walter Raleigh's house, 

 at Youghal, is 25 ft. high, 

 with a stem 3 in. in dia- 

 meter. 



PLUMBAGINA V CEiE. 



Plumbago capensis. 1287., introduce after 

 " Bot. Reg., t. 417.: " " and our 

 Jig. 2520." 



CHENOPODIA V CEiE. 



A' 'triplex Walimus. 1289. This species 

 is abundant in a wild state about 

 King George's Sound, on the ex- 

 treme south-west of Australia, and is eaten by the settlers as an 

 agreeable food. 

 Koch'ia prostrdta. 1291., add : " This species is quite hardy in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden.'' 



PoLYGONA V CEiE. 



Tragopyrum. 1294., before the paragraph headed " T. pungens" introduce : — 

 " T. maritima Doug. There are plants, raised from seeds sent home by 

 Douglas, in the Horticultural Society's Garden." 



ZAURA^CEiE. 



haurus nobilis. 1298. 1. 1., add, after "Tauria:" " It is not really wild 

 in any part of Sicily, though it grows in hedges near the towns. 

 (Comp. Bot. Mag., i. 51.) 

 End of the paragraph, after " Knights of the Round Table," add : " The 

 flowers of the sweet bay afford the best kind of honey, and are nume- 

 rously frequented by bees. The blackbirds, in winter, are very fond of 

 the berries. (Host Fl. Aus., ii. p. 66.)" 

 L. Sassafras. 1303., before " Statistics," insert : — 



" Insects and Fungi. The Papilio Ilioneus Sm. et Abb. Ins. of Georgia, t. 2., 

 and our Jig. 2521., the black swallow-tail butterfly, in its larva state, feeds on 

 the leaves of this tree. The fungi are : Calocera Lauri Brot., Hysterium Laini 

 Fr.., SphaeVia Sassafras Schwein., S. pentagona Pers., Actinocladium penicillus 

 Fr.y and Sphagna conferta Schwein.; which last is also found on L. Benzoin." 



