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In continuation of a series of monographs of our Hymenomycetous 
or fleshy fungi, begun in the 33d Report and continued in the succeed- 
ing ones, Mr. Peck gives in the present instance on account of 
our State species of Laciarius (which are forty in number), and of 
Pluteus (nine in number). 
The gratifying promptness with which the Report under consider- 
ation has been printed and published is due to a law passed in 1883, 
which provides that the scientific printing of the Museum shall here- 
after be done " under the direct care of the Museum staff. Under 
this law the scientific papers prepared by the Museum staff will be 
issued, whenever ready, as Museum bulletins." This is as it should 
have been many years ago. 
The Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley, Ohio, By A. P. Morgan. 
(From Journal oi the Cincinnati Society of Natural History.) 
Observations on several Zoogloea and related Forms. By William Tre- 
lease, Sc.D. 8vo., pamph., pp. 24. (From Studies from the Bio- 
logical Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University.) 
(i.) T/ie Spot-Disease of Strawberry Leaves. (2.) When the Leaves 
Appear and Fall. By William Trelease. Svo. pamph., pp. 20. 
(From Second Ann. Report Wise. Agric. Exper. Station.) 
Proceedings of the Torrey Club.— At the regular meeting of the 
chib, Tuesday evening, November loth, the President occupied the 
chair, and twenty-one persons were present. 
Dr. Britton read some notes upon Carya 7nicrocarpa and a paper 
upon Quercus Mnhlenbergii, Engelm, and Q. prinoides, Wilid., in 
Q 
by form of Q, prinoi 
Q, Muhlenbergii{Q 
Q. Muhlenber 
Mr. Hollick gave a brief account of the August flora of the 
vicinity of Tom's River, N. J., and exhibited specimens therefrom. 
Dr. Newberry gave an interesting account of the fossil flora of the 
New Jersey cretaceous clays, and compared the forms that 
have been found with similar ones from the clays of Greenland and 
Aachen. Within the past few months upwards of a hundred and 
fifty species have been unearthed, these including about fifteen con- 
ifers, a dozen ferns, two or three cycads, several specimens of what 
appears to be a large composite flower-head, and a number of trees 
and shrubs, many of which are represented by living genera. 
^ A white-flowered Cnicus lanceolatus was shown by Mrs. 
Britton, who also exhibited specimens of Chrysanthemum Leucanthe- 
)num in which the flower-heads appeared to be developed immediately 
from the root without the intervention of a stem — the latter, at least, 
if present, being too short to be visible. 
Mr. Hollick showed an example of syncarpy in a cultivated 
cucurbit. 
Two persons were elected active members. 
