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The Seventh Annual Winter Meeting of the Vermont 

 Botanical Club held at the University of Vermont, Burlington, on 

 the 24th and 25th of January, was the most successful of any in the 

 history of the Club. More than fifty botanists were present, and 

 fifteen names were added to the membership. The program included 

 twenty-three papers, representing a wide range of taxonomic, morpho- 

 logical, physiological, and economic subjects. Among cryptogams 

 thirteen species of mosses and seven of algae new to the State were 

 listed. Mrs. Frances B. Horton reported finding Dryopteris simulate 

 Dav. at Brattleboro', the first record for Vermont, and Lygodmm 

 ptilmatum Swartz only twelve miles distant in New Hampshire. A 

 large number of flowering plants has been added to the local flora 

 of Burlington, and sixty-four species new to the state have been 

 reported since the publication of the Flora a little over a year ago. 

 The problems of forestry aroused much interest, and the need of 

 enlightenment in this held for the purpose of awakening general 

 action and influencing legislation was emphasized. Nature study and 

 the botanical work of secondary schools received attention in several 

 papers. President Brainerd suggested as the chief problems for the 

 next season the careful study of such critical groups as Viola, Kubus 

 and Crataegus. The address by Professor B. L. Robinson on Some 

 Recent Advances in the Classification of the Flowering Plants, in 

 which an outline of the history of taxonomic systems was followed 

 by a most lucid exposition of the Eichlerian principles as developed 

 by Engler and Prantl, was listened to with great interest by a num- 

 ber of persons outside the ranks of working botanists as well as by 

 the members of the Club. The officers were re-elected as follows : 

 President Ezra Brainerd of Middlebury -College, president ; Mr. 

 C. G. Pringle, vice-president ; Professor L. R. Jones, secretary. 

 The field meeting next summer will take the form of an excursion 

 to the islands and shores of Lake Champlain. — T. E. Hazen. 



\'ol. 4, No. jS, including pages 23 to 42 was issued 10 February, iqo2. 



