680 ADDENDA. 



To page 143. 



6. Baptisia Vill6sa, Ell. Sometimes soft-hairy, usually minutely pu- 

 bescent Avhen young, erect, 2° -3° high, with divergent branches ; leaves almost 

 sessile ; leaflets wedge-lanceolate or obovate ; lower stipules lanceolate and per- 

 sistent, those of the branchlets often small and subulate ; racemes many-flow- 

 ered ; pedicels equalling oi longer than the calyx and the subulate mostly de- 

 ciduous bracts ; corolla yellow ; pods ovoid-oblong and taper-pointed, minutely 

 pubescent. — Franklin, S. Virginia, W. M. Canby, and southward. May. 



To page 150, at bottom. 

 * 2. Poterium Sanguisqrba, L. Garden Burnet. Stamens 12 or more 

 in the lower flowers of the globular greenish head, with drooping capillary fila- 

 ments, the upper flowers pistillate only ; stems about 1° high ; leaflets numerous, 

 small, ovate, deeply cut. — Fields and rocks, near Baltimore, P. V. Leroy. July. 

 (Adv. from Eu.) 



To page 159. 



7. Eosa canina, L. Dog Rose. Resembles Sweet-Brier (No. 5), but 

 more bushy, glabrous or nearly so, and nearly without glands, none on the 

 lower surface of the leaflets, which are therefore inodorous. — Pennsylvania, 

 abundant near Easton, Professors Green and Porter. (Nat. from Eu.) 



To page 244. 

 27 s . SolidagO tortifdlia, Ell. Stem slender, erect, 2° -3° high, sca- 

 brous-puberulent above, thickly leafy to crowded panicle of racemes ; leaves 

 (often twisted at the base) linear, small (^' - 2' long), sharply serrate with a 

 few scattered small teeth, rough on the margins and midrib beneath, the veins 

 very inconspicuous ; heads small ; the small rays and the disk-flowers each 3 - 5. 

 — Northampton Co., E. shore of Virginia, and southward, W M. Canby. 

 Heads like those of small forms of S. Canadensis : the leaves peculiar. 



To page 266, line 2. 

 Var. tubulifl6rum, S. Tenney, in Amer. Nat. : an abnormal state of the 

 White-weed, with the rays transformed into large and palmately or bilabiately 

 5-lobed (rarely 3-4-lobed) tubular corollas. — Fields, Poughkeepsie, New York,. 

 Prof. Tenney. 



To page 292, before Chiogenes. 

 15. Vaceinium tenellum, Ait. Between No. 14 and No. 11, taller 

 than the latter (l°-3° high), with firmer and obscurely serrulate leaves, and 

 narrower cylindraceous corolla. — Pine-barren swamps, Franklin, S. Virginia, 

 W. M. Canby, and common southward. April, May. 



To page 323, before Phelipsea. 



Orobanche minor, L., Lesser Broom-rape, is parasitic on Clover in 



the vicinity of Washington (F. Pech), and has been met with in New Jersey 



( W. M. Canby) ; but it may not long abide. The genus is known from Phe- 



lipaea by its calyx of two sepals (either entire or 2-cleft) and no bractlets, the 



