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Page 967., add before Chap. LIV.

CHAP. LI 11.*

OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDERREAUMURl/cm

tgKtSo Reaumuna. hypericoidcs Willd.

Spec., 2. p. 1250., Bot. Reg., t. —-

845., and our figs. 2472 and 2473.;

Hypericum alternifolium Labill;

has fleshy leaves, somewhat lan-ceolate, flat, rather remote. Ashrub from 1 ft. to 2 ft. high, a na-

tive of Syria, in arid places; intro- W “duced in 1800, and producing its

Sir rose-coloured flowers from June

to uctoDer. 247d

R. Vermiculata Linn. Spec. 754., has the leaves subulate, semiterete, imbri-

cated, and crowded on the branches. It is an elegant little shrub, a nativeof Sicily, Barbary, and Egypt, on the sea shore. Flowers white or palered. Introduced in 1828. The leaves of both species are dotted, and exudeglobules of a saline alkali.”

Cacta'ce®.

Opuntia vulgaris. 967., after thereferences add: “ and ourJig. 2474.” Add to the endof the paragraph : “ The

’ fungi found on it are :

Sphae'ria Turns Spreng.,and S. Cacti Schwein .—, M. J. B.”

mvm

m,

Grossula'ceje.

Ribes. 968., end of paragraph headed “ Description ,” introduce : —

“ Fungi. These are: Polyporus Rihis Schum., Cenangium Ribis Fr.; C.repandum Fr., on R. petrae'um ; Sphte'ria strumella Fr., S. vestita Fr., S.Ribis Tode, S. uberiformis Fr., S. Grossulariae Fr., and S.ribicohiFr., on leaves;Cytispora Ribis Ehr., Dothidea ribesia Fr., Didymosporum truncatum Corda,f/redo Ribesii Lk. sub Ccem., iEcidium Grossularias Dec., Puccinis Ribis Dec.— M. J. B.”

R. lacustre. 976., dele the last sentence, beginning “Sir W. J. Hooker,” &c.R. nndtiflbrum Kit. 980., to the list of Synonymes, add : “ R. uitifolium Hort.”981., R. prostratum, its variety, and R. resinosum, Mr. Gordon informs us,