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Proceedings of the Club. 
The regular monthly meeting of the Club was held March 
8th, the President in the chair and fifty-six persons present. Miss 
KE. V. Clark was elected. an active member. 
A letter was read from M. G. E. Hylten-Cavallius, director 
of the Botanical Exchange Club ‘“ Linnza” at Lund, Sweden, 
asking that the Torrey Club consent to become the agent of 
“Linnea” for America. It was unanimously resolved that the 
request be granted, and the Secretary was requested to com- 
municate with the Directer of the Exchange Club. 
Mr. E. E. Sterns exhibited specimens of Bouvardia leiantha, 
Benth., with dimorphous flowers, confirming Prof. W. W. 
Bailey’s observations on the plant recorded in the Bulletin, Vol. 
vi., p. 106, which are cited by Darwin. Also flowering speci- 
mens of Pyxidanthera barbulata, sold by a New York florist as 
“Black Forest Heather ;”” comment was made on the extremely 
early blossoming of the plant. Also a flowering bush of the 
poisonous South African ‘ Giftboom,” Akokanthera venenata, 
Don, (Cestrum venenosum, Thunb.), of the Apocynacez, and 
remarked on the custom of the natives of boiling the milky juice 
to a gelatinous substance, with which they tip their arrows. 
Mr. E. B. Southwick exhibited specimens of a species of 
Fleliconia (probably H. Bahai, L.), collected by Mr. P. H. Dud- 
ley on the Isthmus of Panama, where it is common and known 
as ‘Wild Plantain.” Dr. Britton remarked that the abundant 
starch grains in the stem and leaves are of a large size and oblong 
in shape. Mr. Southwick showed also beautifully preserved speci- 
mens of a number of aquatics grown in the Central Park Terrace 
Pond in 1886, including eight species and varities of Vymphea, 
Limnanthemum nympheoides, Limnocharis Humboldtit and 
Cyperus Papyrus. 
President Newberry remarked on the different plants called 
“Lotus.” Mymphea Lotus formerly grew in the Nile, and parts 
of it are found in the Egyptian mummy-cases, but it does not 
now grow in that region. The “Forgetful Lotus” is a species _ 
of Zizyphus, a native of Northern Africa. a 
Dr. Britton showed a specimen of Solidago Missouriensis, 
