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THE ANNUAL FIELD MEETING OF THE VERMONT BOTANICAL AND 
Birp CLuss will be held at No. Hero, Aug. 5 and 6, 1919. Head- 
quarters will be at the Irving House, No. Hero, where the members 
of the Clubs will assemble the evening of the 4th. If the attendance 
is beyond the capacity of the House, automobiles will be in waiting 
to take members to adjacent hotels. Meals at Irving House 50 to 
60 cents. Members coming by train can reach No. Hero by Rutland 
R. R. from Burlington or Rouses Pt. There is no boat service as in 
former years. As the usual winter meeting was omitted this year, 
it is hoped that the members will make a special effort to get together 
this summer. The region is especially rich in shore and water plants 
and trips will be made to “The Gut," Pelot's Bay, and other points 
of botanical interest.— Gro. P. Burns, Sec. 
THE IDENTITY OF ANGELICA LUCIDA. 
M. L. FERNALD. 
IN 1635, in his remarkable History of Canadian Plants, Cornut 
described and illustrated by a beautiful plate Angelica lucida! from 
Canada. The plant was soon cultivated in various gardens and was 
described or cited in numerous works of the 18th century, Morrison's 
History, Hortus Cliffortianus, etc., and eventually was taken up by 
Linnaeus in the Species Plantarum (1753) as a valid species, under 
Cornut’s original name. Under this name the species was accepted 
by post-Linnean authors, Crantz, Jacquin, Aiton, Sprengel, Torrey, 
DeCandolle, Hooker, Beck, Eaton & Wright and others until in 1848, 
in the 2d edition of Beck's Botany of the United States, it made its 
last formal appearance as an American plant. Prior to that, how- 
ever, in 1840, Torrey & Gray had cast upon it a doubt, as a result of 
which Angelica lucida was omitted from most subsequent treatments 
of the American flora. After citing the authentic material preserved 
in the Vaillant herbarium and giving a very detailed description, 
Torrey & Gray said: “This plant has been common in the gardens 
of Europe for 200 years, and appears to have been introduced by 
Cornuti, on whose authority alone it stands as a North American 
species. It is a genuine Angelica, according to authentic specimens 
which we examined in the herbarium of the Hortus Cliffortianus, 
and that of Vaillant. The segments are ovate, about an inch long, 
1 Cornut, Canadensium Plantarum Historia, 196, 197 (1635). 
