PART III. ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

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Page 967., add before Chap. LIV.

“CHAP. LIU*

OF THE HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDERREAUMUR/./ CEJE.

Reaumuria. hypericoides 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- 1duced in 1800, and producing itsrose-coloured flowers from Juneto October. 2473

R■ vcrmiculuta 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'ceaj.

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

’ fungi found on it are :

Splice'ria Turue Spreng.,and S. Cacti Schwein .—

, M. J. B.”

Grossula'ceje.

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

“ Fungi. These are: Polyporus Ribis Schum., Cenangium Ribis Fr.; C.repandum Fr., on R. petrse'um ; Sphae'ria strumella Fr., S. vestita Fr., S.Ribis Tode, S. uberiformis Fr., S. Grossularice -FV, and S. ribicola.Fr., on leaves;Cytispora Ribis Ehr., Dothidea ribesia Fr., Didymosporum truncatum Corda,Credo Ribesii Lk. sub Coern., TEcidium Grossularias Dec., Pucclnia Ribis Dec.~M. J. B.”

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