BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 



Vol. VIL] New York, July, 1880. [No. 7. 



55. Proceedings of the Torrey Club.— The regular meeting of 



the Club was held at the College of Pharmacy, Tuesday evening, July 

 13th, the Vice-President in the chair, and ten members and three vis- 

 itors in attendance. 



There were exhibited a large number of species of Chenopodiaceae^ 

 from Staten Island, by Mr. Wright ; specimen of tetramerous Iris 

 versicolor^ L., from Long Island by Mr. Schrenk ; and a number of 

 specimens of three-winged fruit of Negutido aceroides^ Moench., and 

 Acer FseudO'Platanus^ L.,from Central Park. Mr, Schrenk reported 

 that he had detected Danthonia sericeUy Nutt , at Little Neck, L. I. 



Mr. Brown read a list of ballast plants that he had discovered this 

 season in the vicinity of New York, one of which {Roubieva multifida^ 

 Moq.) he exhibited- The complete list will be published hereafter. 



Mr. Bicknell stated that he had recently AeitcitA Melanthium 

 Virginicum, L., just north of the City limits. Mr. O. R. Willis reported 

 the interesting discovery by him of Narthecium ossifragum^ Huds., var, 

 Americanum^ Gray, at several places within one and a half miles of the 

 village of White Plains, Westchester County. This plant has hith- 

 erto been found in the pine barrens of New Jersey only. 



The subject of parasitic plants was again discussed, and Mr. 

 Schrenk exhibited a glass slide on which were mounted the root fibres 

 of the different plants among which the roots of Monotropa uniflora^ 

 L., had been found nestling— although no connection had been 

 observed between them, These fibres were covered with brown fun- 

 gus hyphae which answered to the description, given by other inves- 

 tigators, of the "byssoid fungi" or fibrous processes that envelop the 

 roots of the Monotropa Hypopitys, L., and appear to communicate 

 with the plants near which the latter grows. Mr. James Ware, of 

 Stapleton, S. L, was elected an active member. One name was pro- 

 posed for corresponding membership. 



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56. Field Meetings of the Torrey Club.— The first field meet- 

 ing of the season was held at West New Brighton, S. I., and the 

 swamps about Clove Lake. The persons who took part in the excur- 

 sion were Misses Beckwith, Dubois and Brown, and Messrs. Gross, 

 Wright, Schoeny, Wilber, Britton and Gerard. Before proceeding to 

 the woods the party visited the greenhouses and gardens of a vete- 

 ran member of the Club, Mr, Wm. 'Charlton, and were afterwards 

 entertained at a bountiful collation prepared by his hospitable wife. 

 No new stations were discovered for plants already reported. The. 

 plant recorded as Viola delphmifolia, Nutt., in the " Flora of Rich- 

 mond County," was found in abundance, and, on examination 

 discovered to be one of the many forms of that protean species, V. 

 cucullata, Ait. Viola striata, hM., was found here in profusion. 



