Chapter C: SPINOSA, L. Viscid-pubescent, 3--4 deg. high; a pair of short stipular

spines under the petiole of each leaf; leaflets 5--7, oblong-lanceolate; flowers large, rose-purple to white; stamens 2--3' long; stipe of the linear pod about 2' long. (C. pungens, _Willd._)--An escape from cultivation, near Mt. Carmel, Ill. (_Schneck_), and in waste grounds southward; also on ballast. (Int. from Trop. Amer.)

Page 86.--Arenaria Groenlandica. Found on Mt. Desert Island, Maine (_Rand_).

Page 87.--Stellaria borealis. In the mountains of northern N. J.

S. humifusa. This species has also been found on Cranberry Island, near Mt. Desert, Maine, by _J. H. Redfield_.

Page 91.--Under Talinum teretifolium add the character--style equalling the stamens.--Insert

2. T. calycinum, Engelm. Leaves somewhat broader; flowers and capsules larger; stamens 30 or more; style twice longer than the stamens, declined.--Central Kan. to W. Tex.

Under Claytonia insert--

3. C. Chamissonis, Esch. Weak, procumbent or ascending, rooting below and perennial by lateral and terminal filiform runners; leaves several pairs, oblong-spatulate, 1--2' long; inflorescence racemosely 1--9-flowered; petals pale rose-color; capsule small, 1--3-seeded.--In a cold ravine, Winona Co., Minn.; in the mountains from Colorado north and westward.

Page 211.--Hydrocotyle Americana. Add--propagating by filiform tuberiferous stolons.

Page 230.--Insert after the genus Dipsacus--

2. SCABIOSA, Tourn. SCABIOUS.

Characters of Dipsacus, but the green leaves of the involucre and involucels not rigid nor spinescent. (Name from _scabies_, the itch, from its use as a remedy.)

S. AUSTRALIS, Wulf. Perennial, sparsely branched, nearly glabrous, 11/2--3 deg. high; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, the lower oblanceolate, slightly toothed or entire; heads short-oblong; calyx obtusely short-lobed; corolla pale blue.--Central N. Y. and Penn.; rare. (Adv. from Eu.)

Page 395.--After OROBANCHE MINOR insert--

O. RAMOSA, L. Often branched, 6' high or less, of a pale straw-color; flowers 3-bracteate, the lateral bracts small; calyx 4-toothed, split at the back; corolla pale blue, 6--8'' long.--On the roots of hemp and tobacco; Ky. (Int. from Eu.)

Page 421.--After LAMIUM PURPUREUM insert--