AUDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 595 



Root perennial. Stem 5 to S or 10 inches hich, 4-ansled, sometimes simple, but 

 often much branched, and bushy, with the branches sub-fastigiate, minutely rough- 

 ish-pubescent. Leaves 3 fourths of an inch to an inch and half long, and 1 to 3 ur 

 4 lines wide, opposite, entire, rather acute, smooth, sessile,— the radical ones ob- 

 lanccolate, and attenuated almost to a petiole at base ; stipules ovate, acute, entire, 

 or with 2 or 3 teeth, membranaceous, whitish. Flotcers mostly in threes, terminal 

 and subterminal, somewhat corymbose. Calyx shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla ; segments linear. Corolla purple ; lobes oblong-ovate, rather acute. 



Hab. Chesnut hill, above Pugh-town : rare. Fl. June— Aug. Fr. Aug— Sept, 



Obs. Collected in August, 1836, by Mr. Joseph Rinehart. 



Page 106. Line 8 from the top, for " ovate," read ovoid. 



Page 113. Line 8 from the bottom, for "Surilacina canadensis.'' read 

 Smilacinabifolia. 



Page 117. PuLMoxiniA virgixica^ The style of this plant varies 

 in its relative length, during the process of flowering, — being at one 

 period shorter than the tube of the corolla, and at another exscrted. 



Page 125. Lysimachia. Mr. Rineuart collected a Jjysimachia y 

 on the North side of the County, in Aug. 1836, which I suspect to 

 be the L. longifolia, Pursh ; but the specimen furnished me was too 

 imperfect to be determined satisfactorily* 



Page 125. Next after Lysimachia, insert 



96* (475.), SAMOLUS. L. JSTutt. Gen. 186. 

 [Supposed to have been named from the island of Samos."] 



Calyx 6-cleft, persistent, the base adnate to the ovary. Corolla salver- 

 form, 5-lobcd, with 5 scales (or abortive stamens) alternating with the 

 lobes ; tube short. Capsule half inferior, l-cel!ed, many-seeded, open- 

 ing with 5 spreading teeth-like valves at summit. Seeds on a central 

 free receptacle. 



Herbaceous: leaves alternate ; flowers racemose, terminal and axillary; pedi- 

 cels bracteate near the middle. Nat. Ord. 207. Lindl. Primulaceje. 



1. S. Valerawdt, L. Leaves obovate, or spatulate-oblong, entire; 



racemes elongated, loose, many-flowered ; pedicels with a minute bract 



Beck y Bot.p. 291. 



Valkhandus 1 Samolcs. Vulgb — Water Pimpernel. 



Gallice — Mouron d'eau. Germanice — Das Samoskraut. 



Root perennial. StemS to 12 inches high, erect, slender, smooth, with a few 

 loose axillary branches above. Leaves half an inch to 2 inches long, and 1 third 

 of an inch to an inch wide, varying from obovate to spatulate-oblong, and ihom- 

 boid-lanccolate, mostly obtuse, entire, slightly fleshy in their texture, smooth and 

 preen, narrowed at base almost to a petiole. Flotcers small, in slender loose ra- 

 cemes (2 to 4 or 3 inches in length) terminating the branches ; pedicels half an inch 

 to 3 quarters in length, filiform, spreading with a minute subulate bract near the 

 middle. Calyx-segments ovate, acute. Corolla white, about twice as long as the 

 calyx ; lobes obtuse. Ovary adnate to the base of the calyx. Capsule roundish- 

 vbovoid, a little compressed, opening at summit into 5 partial valves, or spread- 

 ing teeth. 

 Hob. Wet low grounds ; Great Valley : rare. FL July —Sept. Fr. Aug-Octo. 



Obs. This was collected (Aug. 1836,) by Mr. Joseph Rinehart, in a wet mea- 

 dow near the Baptist Meeting House, in the Great Valley. It is common to both 





