1904] Meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club 63 



to publication, is that of ascribing Melilotus alba to Desvaux instead 

 of Desrousseaux its real author. The local distribution of each 

 species and variety within the limits of Pennsylvania is stated with 

 remarkable completeness and unquestioned accuracy, but the same 

 cannot be said for the more general ranges given. This is, of course, 

 a secondary feature in a local flora, and therefore some incompleteness 

 or slips in stating extra-limital ranges should be readily condoned, 

 yet surely surprise must be felt when a plant so noteworthy and so 

 much discussed as our dwarf mistletoe is assigned a range which does 

 not include a third part of the territory over which it is known to 

 extend. However, notwithstanding the defects here mentioned, the 

 work as a whole is a noble monument of untiring and lifelong effort 

 to understand thoroughly and record accurately a rich and interest- 

 ing flora. Dr. Small's addition of keys contributes a feature which 

 must have cost no inconsiderable labor and will be appreciated by 

 those who use the book in the field. 



Under the title Contributions from the Ames Botanical Laboratory, 

 IVo. I, Mr. Oakes Ames has just issued a valuable and well illus- 

 trated paper on some orchids of southern Florida. The observations 

 relate chiefly to specimens recently collected by Mr. A. A. Eaton. 

 It is to be hoped that this carefully prepared paper is the forerunner 

 of an extended series of similar contributions concerning a family of 

 plants long in need of an American specialist. 



Dr. W. F. Ganong in the Educational Review of St. John, New 

 Brunswick, xvii. 196, has published an excellent article upon plant- 

 nomenclature. 



Bulletin 103 of the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, a 

 joint publication by Professor L. R. Jones and other members of the 

 staff, deals with the Maple Sap Flow. Although it contains much 

 tabular matter, embodying the results of extensive experimentation, 

 the whole subject is clearly discussed in language so free from tech- 

 nicalities that the bulletin will be a practical and valuable guide to 

 maple sugar makers, not only in Vermont but throughout the range 

 of the industry. — B. L. R. 



Meeting of the Vermont Botanical Cluh. — The ninth annual 

 winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club was held at Burlington 

 January 21-22, with President E. Brainerd in the chair. The follow- 



