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Page 183. After Htdrocottle americaxa, add 



2. H. ranuxculoides, L? Creeping; glabrous; leaves orbicular- 

 reniform, somewhat 5-lobed ; lobes obtuse, crenate, the middle one 

 smaller and more distinct ; umbels subcapitate, few-flowered, peduncu- 

 late. Torr. Fl. 1. p. 304. 



JR. cyrnbalarifolia. MuML Catal. p. 30. Ell. Sk. I. p. 346. Beck, 

 Bot. p. 140. 



Kaxunculus-like Htdrocottle* 



Root perennial. Stem creeping, throwing out verticils of long fibres. Leaves 

 half an inch to 3 quarters long, and 3 fourths of an inch to an inch wide, smooth 

 and thick ish or subcoriaceous, reniform, 3-lobed, and crenate, with the lateral 

 segments partially 2-lobed, the middle lobe smallest ; petioles I to 2 inches long. 

 Umbels small (5 to 10-flowered) ; flowers on very short pedicels; common peduncle 

 about an inch long. 



JIab. Wet places ; above Pugh-town : rare. Fl. July. Fr. Sept. 



Obs. Imperfect specimen collected in Aug. 163G, hy Mr. Joseph Rxnehart. 



Page 188. Line 21 from the top, for "Common Petroselixum" read 

 Cultivated Petroselinum. 



Page 196. Line 11 from the top, for "Common Pastixaca" read 

 Cultivated Pastixaca. 



Page 198. To the description of Daucus carota, add — The central 

 fitrwer of the umbel mostly dark purple, abortive. 



Page 202. Line 8 from the top, for "Common Coriandrum" read 

 Cultivated Coriaxdrum. 



Page 210. Next after Aralia racemosa, add 



3. A. iiispida, Mx. Sufiruticose ; stein and petioles hispid ; leaves 

 doubly pinnate ; leaflets lance-ovate, acuminate, incised-serrate, smooth ; 

 umbels axillary and terminal, on long peduncles. Becky Bot. p. 151. 



Hispid Aralia. 



Root perennial. Stem 16 inches to 2 feet kigh, shrubby at base and hispid with 

 rigid tawny'bristles, slender, subherbaceous and somewhat branched above, more 

 or less pilose, or hirsute. Leaflets 1 to 2 inches long, and 3 fourths of an inch to 

 an inch and half wide, sessile ; common petioles dilated at base, more or less his- 

 pid. Umbels on long naked branches, or branching common peduncles (2 or 3 to 

 5 or 6 inches long) ; involucre many-leaved ; leaflets subulate-linear, acute, ciliale; 

 rays about an inch long, filiform, smooth. Petals greenish-white, mostly reflexed. 



Hob. Chesnut hill, near Pugh-town: rare. Fl. June— July. Fr. Sept. 

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



Page 216. Line 2 from the bottom, for "Commox Allium" read 

 Cultivated Allium. 



Page 240. Epilobium. D. Towxsexd, Esq. has collected speci- 

 mens in the Great Valley, which may, perhaps, be E. palustre, of the 

 American Botanists ; but I am not yet quite satisfied of its identity 

 with the European plant 



