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3. C. Chamissnis, Esch. Weak, proc.u.mbent 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, spa.r.s.ely branched, nearly glabrous, 1--3 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. RAMSA, 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--
L. INTERMeDIUM, Fries. Resembling L. purpureum, but the calyx-teeth longer than the tube, the rather narrower corolla without a hairy ring within near the base, and the nutlet longer (3 times as long as broad).--Cultivated fields near Hingham, Ma.s.s. (_C. J. Sprague_). (Adv.
from Eu.)
Page 427.--Insert in the generic key--
5. Cladothrix. Flowers perfect, minute, axillary. Densely white-tomentose.
Page 430.--Insert after the genus Frlichia--
5. CLADoTHRIX, Nutt.
Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5, erect, rigid-scarious, somewhat pilose. Stamens 5, the filaments united at base; anthers large, 1-celled. Stigma large, capitate, 2-lobed. Utricle globose, indehiscent.--Densely stellate-tomentose low herbs or woody at base, with opposite petiolate leaves and very small flowers solitary or few in the axils. (Name from ???d??, _a branch_, and ????, _hair_, for the branching tomentum.)
1. C. lanuginsa, Nutt. Prostrate or ascending, much branched; leaves round-obovate to rhomboidal, 3--10” long.--Central Kan. (_Meehan_) and southwestward.
Page 435.--Salsola Kali. This species has been found in Emmet Co., Iowa (_Cratty_), at Yankton, Dak. (_Bruhin_), and in river-bottoms in N. W.
Neb. and central Dak.
Page 437.--After Eriogonum annuum insert--
2. E. Alleni, Watson. Perennial, white-tomentose throughout, the tall scape-like stem repeatedly dichotomous above; radical leaves lanceolate, long-petiolate, the upper in whorls of 4 or 5, ovate to oblong-ovate, very shortly petiolate, much reduced above; involucres mostly sessile; flowers glabrous, yellow, the segments elliptical.--Near White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (_T. F. Allen_).
Page 445.--Asarum Canadense. In this species there are rudimentary subulate petals, alternate with the calyx-lobes.
Page 463.--Celtis Mississippiensis. Common in low river-bottoms of W.
Mo. (_F. Bush_); described as having a very smooth trunk, like a sycamore, and soft yellowish brittle wood, not coa.r.s.e-grained as in C.
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