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have their fruit black, instead of red. In the latter, in the list of En-gravings, for “ our fig. 731.,” read “ our fig. 732.”
R.rlgcas. Page 982., dele entirely; it being the same as R.floridumgrandiflorum.
R. punctatum. The fruit, Mr. Gordon informs us, is black, not red. A spe-cimen {Jig. 217,').) has been sent us, from Mr. Pope of the HandsworthNursery, near Birmingham , of a Eibes which strongly resembles H.punctatum. It is an evergreen, with small yellow flowers, and verysweet-scented.”
R .floridum. 986., to the “ Varieties ,” after “ R. (n.)/. 2 grandijlorum Hort.,” add:“ It. rigens Michx. FI. Bor. Amer., i. p. 110., Pursh FI. Amer. Sept.i. p. 136.” R. inebrians and R. cereum have their fruit amber-coloured,not black.
R. viscosissinmm. 987., to the list of Engravings, add : “ and our Jig. 738.”
R. (a.) Jlavum. 990., to the list of Engravings, add: “ and our Jig. 2476.”
991., in Mr. Gordon’s list, to “R. mulliftormn,” add: “ syn. nitifolium.”R. punctatum. syn., for “ prostratum,” read “glandulosum.”
To “ R. triflbrumj add : “ var. R. t. majus.”
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Escallbn ia. 694., add, after “ E. pulverulenta : ” —
“ E. glandulosa Hort. There are plants of this spe-cies in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which haveflowered there.”
“ E. illmita Presl, Lindl. in Bot. Beg., t. 1900., andour Jig. 2477., has the leaves oblong, lanceolate, serru-late, clammy or varnished (whence the name); and co-rymbs 3-flowered, racemose. {Lindl.) This is an evergreenbushy shrub, covered all over with a clammy varnish;emitting an odour, according to Dr. Lindley, like melilotor fenugreek; but, according to others, like that of swine.The flowers are in terminal racemes, and are of a greenishwhite. The plant is a native of the mountains of Chili ;but it appears the hardiest of all the species of Escallbmain British gardens.”
iS’axifra'geje.
Hydrangea. 994., add to the paragraph headed “ Gen. Char., SfC.,” “ Sphse'riasphaerocephala Schivein. is found on the leaves.”
Bupleurum fruticdsum. 997., to the “ Engravings,” add, “ and
H edera Helix. Varieties. 1000., before “ The Varieties in BritishGardens” add: “ A variety with white berries is mentionedby Theophrastus, Pliny, Virgil, and Dioscorides. Pliny also speaks of a kind which he calls c pallentes hederae,’which Melmoth supposes to be the silver-striped.”
1006. 1. 17. from the bottom, before “Plants,” insert: “ The
following fungi are found on the ivy:— Sphte'ria sino-pica Fr., S. microscopica Fr., S. Mougeotii Fr.; S. tri-chella Fr., on the leaves, and also on those of the wV)willow; S. BT^derae Sow., S. Aederae'cola Fr., and Do- ^thfdea Hi deras Fr., on the leaves; Phoma He der® +Hesm.—M. J. B,”
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H amamelis virgmica. 1007. 1. 4. from the bottom, after full stop, insert: