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VOL. I. ] Proceedings of Societies. : 95 
May 2, 1891. Mrs. C. E. Hansen in the chair. 
The Secretary announced that: in accordance with instructions 
from the Council, he had communicated with the officers of the 
‘California Academy of Sciences, soliciting the use of the Hall of 
the Academy for one night during the month, and that through the 
efforts of Dr. Harkness, and in consideration of the fact that the 
investigations and collections of the Club would tend to enrich the 
herbarium of the Academy, the request had been granted, 
On motion a vote of thanks was tendered to Dr. Harkness. 
The thanks of the Club were also voted to Mr. T. S. Brandegee 
for his donation of the two volumes of the Botany of California and 
the first volume of Zoe, and also to Mr. George Spaulding for print- 
ing without charge 250 receipts for dues. 
The following notes by Miss E. Cannon on plants not hitherto 
- known as growing in San Francisco, were read: 
SANICULA MARITIMA Kell. A new locality for this plant is a half marshy de- 
pression in the Potrero Hills at the end of Eighteenth street. It grows there in 
stiff black clay called ‘‘adobe” which is very wet in winter and spring, but is 
nearly dry at this time. The plants are, as seems usually to be the case with vege- 
tation near the coast, lower and more spreading than those from Alameda. It is 
associated at this place with Eryngium petiolatum and probably occurs in other 
similar localities, but is so inconspicuous and the foliage so exactly the color of . 
Ranunculus muricatus and Plantago major that it is not easy to find. 
-GILIA LINIFLORA Benth. stouter, more spreading, but lower and with larger 
flowers than any of the specimens in the herbarium of the California Academy of 
Sciences, grows on the summits of the Potrero hills. 
GAULTHERIA SHALLON Pursh., ‘‘Salal” of the Northern Indians, is found on 
the summits of the hills on both sides of Noe Valley, growing only a few inches in 
height, but flowering freely. 
On motion the charter roll was declared closed with the following 
signatures: 
H.W. Harkness; : H. H. Behr, 
Mary W. Kincaid, Emily V. Harrison, 
Katharine Brandegee, | T. S. Brandegee, 
Caroline L. Hunt, Ernestine J. Arnold. 
Mrs. Paris Kilburn, Edith B. Falkenau, 
Ella L. Manson, Lucy F. Swett, 
= J. M. F. Wanzer, Jessie Andrus, 
Nellie Williams, Mrs. R. F. Dodd, 
Evelina Cannon, Mrs. L. D. Emerson, 
_ Florence Emerson, Jessie S. Easton, 
