argely to thank several correspondents of many years' standing
for hints and information incorporated in these pages.

J. WOOD.

WOODVILLE, KIRKSTALL,

_November, 1883._

ERRATA.

For the placing of capital letters uniformly throughout this Volume to
the specific names at the cross-headings, and for the omission of many
capitals in the body of the type, the printer is alone responsible.

Numerous oversights fall to my lot, but in many of the descriptions
other than strictly proper botanical terms have been employed, where it
seemed desirable to use more intelligible ones; as, for instance, the
flowers of the Composites have not always been termed "heads," perianths
have sometimes been called corollas, and their divisions at times
petals, and so on; this is hardly worthy of the times, perhaps, but it
was thought that the terms would be more generally understood.

Page 7, line 8. For "lupin" read "Lupine."
Page 39, line 31. For "calyx" read "involucre."
Page 40, line 27. For "calyx" read "involucre."
Page 46, line 1. For "corolla" read "perianth."
Page 47, lines 3 and 6. For "corolla" read "perianth."
Page 48, last line. For "lupin" read "Lupine."
Page 60, line 16. For "pompon" read "pompone."
Page 64, line 36. For "corolla" read "perianth."
Page 102, line 27. For "Fritillaries" read "Fritillarias."
Page 114, cross-heading. For "Ice-cold Gentian" read "Ice-cold
Loving Gentian."
Page 213. For "_Tirolensis_" read "_Tyrolensis_."
Page 214, cross-heading. For "_Cashmerianum_" read "_Cashmeriana_."
Page 215, cross-heading. For "_Cashmerianum_" read "_Cashmeriana_."
Page 275, line 26. For "corolla" read "perianth."
Page 284, line 25. For "calyx" read "involucre."
Page 285, line 1. For "calyx" read "involucre."

JOHN WOOD.

_November 14th, 1883._

HARDY PERENNIALS

AND

OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN FLOWERS.

Acaena Novae Zealandiae.

_Otherwise_ A. MICROPHYLLA; _Nat. Ord._ SANGUISORBEAE,
_or_ ROSE FAMILY.

The plant, as may be seen by the illustration (Fig. 1), is small, and
its flowers are microscopic, hardly having the appearance of flowers,
even when minutely examined, but when the bloom has faded there is a
rapid growth, the calyces forming a stout set of long spines; these,
springing from the globular head in considerable numbers, soon