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SUPPLEMENT.

“Fungi. /Igaricus Hudson? Pers., syn. A. pilosusSow., on the leaves; Sphse'ria zhjuifblii Fr., andS. insci'dpta Fr., on the bark ; and S. /'lids Scbl.,

S. ilicincola, Sthgia /'lids Fr., syn. Xyloma con-cavum Grev., and Ceuthdspora phacididides Grev.,on the leaves. — M. J. B.”

Page 509. line 31. from the bottom, insert: “InSuffolk , at Stutton Rectory, there is a holly90 years planted, with a trunk 3 ft. 9 in. indiameter.”

I. balcdrica. 516., add to the list of Engravings:

“ and our fig. 2426.”

519., before App. i., insert: —

“ t T. magellanica Lodd. Cat. , 1836. There areplants of this species in the arboretum of Messrs.

Loddiges, and in the Horticultural Society’sGarden.”

P rinos deciduus. 521. 1. 6., add to the end of the paragraph : “ Sphs'riafriabilis Pers. is found on the bark; and lthytisma flicicola /r.,andR. velatum Fr., on the leaves. — M. ./. B.”

P. verticillatus. 521.1.7. from thebottom, after the fullstop, add: “ RhytismaPrini Fr. is found onthis species.”

P. gldber. 522, in the lineheaded “ Engraving,” for“ The figure,” &c., substi-tute “ and our fig. 2428.”

P. coriaceus. 523., to the para-graph headed “ Engrav-ings,” add: “ and our fig.

2427.”

Phamna'ceas.

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Z izyphus sinensis. 525. last two lines, for “ and we have never seen it,” read“ there is a plant in the Horticultural Society’s Garden.”

Z. Jiijuba. 527., add to the paragraph : “ Fig.

2429. shows the leaves, fruit of differentshapes, and stones (the last of thenatural size), of Xizyphus Jiijuba, takenfrom Hooker’s Journal of Botany,

2d ser., t. 140. In the account ofthis species given in the Journal ofBotany,\ ol. i. p. 320., by M. L. Bouton,

Vice-Secretary of the Natural HistorySociety of the Mauritius , it is stated,that the Zizyphus Jiijuba , which isknown in the island by the name ofMasson, grows there to the height ofabout 25 ft. or 30 ft. There are anumber of different varieties, whichhe divides into two sections, viz.those with flesh adhering to the nut,and those with flesh that does not adhere. The colour of the trui,when ripe, is a greenish yellow in some varieties, and a reddish brownin others. Z. mauritiana and Z. rotundiita Dec. Prod., M.considers to be only two of the varieties which he has described. 1 iedifferent forms of the fruit are shown in the engraving from which ourfigure is copied; as are the two forms of the stones, or nuts, which ar