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Botanical Notes. 
Absorption of Water by the Leaf-hairs of Reaumurea and 
Tamarix. In the Egyptian desert the leaves of these plants pro 
duce a number of little basin-like depressions in which the 
glandular hairs secrete a bitter crystalline salt which exudes over 
the surface of the leaf, and by absorbing the dew at night, 
become saturated with moisture.—(Gard. Chron., xxvi., p. 594.) 
Heteromorphous Leaves in Nymphea rubra. M. J. Costantin 
has recorded in the Bulletin de la Société’ Botanique de France 
the occurrence of two different kinds of leaves on this Water Lily. 
One is entirely submerged, thin, transparent, and possesses no 
stomata; the other is the normal kind of floating leaves, with 
stomata on the upper surface. He notes a similar occurrence in 
Nuphar lutea. This feature is well known in our V. Kalmianum, 
and has been observed in Limnanthemum (see this BULLETIN, 
x., p. 34). We do not recollect any statement as to the presence 
or absence of stomata on the submerged leaves of Potamogeton. 
Index Flore Sinensis. An enumeration of all the plants known 
from China proper, Formosa, Hamian, Corea, the Luchu Archi- 
pelago and the island of Hong Kong, together with their distri- 
bution and synonymy. F. B. Forbes and W. B. Hemsley. (Journ. 
Linn. Soc., xxiii., pp. 1-80, platesI.and II.) This part includes 
twenty-three orders, and is the first of a series. 
Proceedings of the Club, 
The regular monthly meeting of the Club was held Novem- 
ber 9th, at Columbia College, the President in the Chair and 57 
persons present. 
Mr. John I. Northrop was elected an active member, and 
Messrs. Marshal H. Bright, James Goldie and Robert Gausby 
corresponding members. 
Dr. Britton distributed specimens of Alyssum calycinum, L., 
from Tuckahoe, Westchester Co., N. Y., where it grows abun- 
dantly on the outcropping surfaces of the crystalline limestones; 
the plant is new to the Westchester County Flora. 
Dr. Newberry read the announced paper of the evening on 
“The Food and Fibre Plants used by the North American 
Indians,” which will subsequently appear in the BULLETIN. 
