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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 



OCj* The reader is requested to make a reference with a pencil, in the 

 pages and places indicated, to the following Additions and Corrections. 



Page 6. Next after Lkptandra viiiginica, insert 



G* (474.). JUSTICIA. L. Mat. Gen. 18. 

 [In honor of James Justice; a Scotch Horticulturist.] 



Calyx 5-parted, with 2 or 3 bracts at base. Corolla irregular, bilabi- 

 ate *, upper lip e margin ate, the lower one 3-lobed. Filaments 2, each 

 with a single or double anther. Style filiform. Capsule attenuated 

 below, 2-valved, 2-celIed ; dissepiment contrary, growing from the 

 centre of each valve. Seeds few, lenticular. 



Herbaceous) or shrubby : leaves mostly opposite, without stipules; flowers in 

 axillary pedunculate spikes, or terminal and solitary. Nat. Or J. 214. Lindl. 



ACAXTHACB.B. 



1. J. peduxculosa, Mx. Leaves linear-lanceolate ; spikes axillary ; 

 flowers crowded; peduncles elongated, mostly alternate. Beck, Bot. 

 ft. 285. 



J. americana. Jl'illd. Sp. \.p. 92. Mt. Keiv. 1. p .38. JYIuhl. Cat alp. 2. 

 J. pedunculata. Pers. Syn. 1. />. 21. 

 J. ensiformis. Ell. Sk. I. p. 11. 



Pkdunculate Justix:ia. 



Plant smooth. Root perennial, creeping. Stem about 2 feet high, herbaceous, 

 rather slender, angular and sulcatc, simple, or sparingly branched from the axils. 

 Leaves opposite, 3 to 6 inches long, and 1 third to 3 fourths of an inch wide, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute, entire, attenuated at base to a short petiole. Floicers in oblong 

 sub-capitate spikes^ which are 1 third to 3 fourths of an inch Ion?, and supported 

 on slender axillary pcdiuvles 1 to 4 inches in length; bracts and calyx-segments 

 subulate-lanceolate ; corolla pale violet-purple ; upper lip deeply emarginate, the 

 lower lip with 3 oblong obtuse lobes ; stamens as long as the tube of the corolla ; 

 anthers double,— -or 2-celled with the cells separated, one terminal and the other 

 subterminal. Style filiform, exserted ; stigma minute. Capsule about half an inch 

 long, acute, tapering at the base. 



JIab. Margin of the Schuylkill, above Pughtown : rare. F/.June^July. Fr. Aug. Sept* 



Obs. Collected in August, 1836, by Mr. JossrH Rinehart. Two other species 

 are enumerated in the U. States. 



Page 9. To the Obs. on Fraxinus, add — Five or six additional spe- 

 cies are enumerated in the U. States. 



Page 10. After the Obs. at the end of the Order, add 

 [Cyperus diandrus. Triandria Monogynia.'] 



J* age 10. Podostemum. This has been reduced to a species of 

 Lacis, Schreb. by M. Bongard, of St. Petersburg ; and is described 

 .under the jaarae of Lacis ceratophylla, by Sir W. J. Hooker, in 



