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BULLETIN 



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TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 



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Vol. VII.] New York, SeDtember, 1880. [No. 9. 



71. Proceedings of the Torrey CIub.-The regular monthly 



meeting of the Club was held at the New York College of Pharmacy, 

 luesday evening, Aug. loth. In the absence of the nresidintr nKrJ. 



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In the absence of the presiding officers, 

 e chair. There were fifteen members 



J^/a;ifs Exhibited. —Vix. Barstow exhibited a specimen of Sarcodes 

 sangmnea, Torr., from California. Mr. A. Brown exhibited a large 

 number of interesting adventive plants gathered in Eighth Avenue, 

 near the Harlem River. Among these was Galeopsis Ladamim L., 

 var., angustifohum, which he stated was growing there in great abun- 



dance. Mr. ijicknell displayed a large specimen of Boletus ftutu^, 

 tr. from Riverdale; specimens of TjJ^/ia latifolia, L., showing fission 

 o. the spike; and a specimen of Cyperus ovularis, Torr., in which one 

 of the upper leaves had at an early stage been split at its' base, and 

 in this aperture had grown a sessile spike of flowers. From the base 

 of the spike sprang another leaf whose apex had grown through a 

 small cleft in the larger leaf, thus enclosing the spike firmly in a sort 

 of net-work. Specimens of Aspidium Goldianum, Hook., from White 

 Plains were shown by Mr. O. R. Willis. 



Adventive Plants, and New Stations. — Mr. Brown stated that he 



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1 enany was mentioned as a new station for Hyperi- 

 cum adpressum^ Bart., the plant having been detected there this sum- 

 mer on the occasion of a field meeting. 



Habenaria ciliaris^ R. Br. — Attention was called to the fact that 

 at a recent field meeting of the Club at Tenafly, this orchid was found 

 there in great profusion — several acres of land being thickly dotted 

 with its conspicuous orange-colored blossoms. According to obser- 

 vations made for several years past at this station by a few members 



of the Club, this species of Habenaria appears to flower only each 

 alternate year, 



Narthecium ossifragum^ Huds. Mr. Leggett, during the course 

 of some remarks on the results of a recent field meeting held at White 

 Plains, stated that he had examined in situ the alleged Narthecium 

 reported from that locality at the last meeting of the Club, and had 

 positively determined from the leaves (the plant being no longer in 

 flower) that it belonged to quite a different genus. Mr. Leggett's as- 

 sertion was confirmed by an examination of dried specimens, which 

 were exhibited to the Club later in the evening. The publication of 

 the report before the reception of specimens was an oversight. 



Dr. T. E, Wilcox, U. S. A., of Boise City, Idaho, was elected a 

 corresponding member. 



