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Nantucket—The Wild Flowers of.— Mrs. H. R. Luney. (Vick’s 
Ill. Month. Mag., x., pp. 166-168.) 
Nymphea lutea in Brazoria County, Texas.—K. H. Hitching. 
(Bot. Gazette, xii., p. 109.) 
Orchids—Hardy American. (Gard, Chron., i., 3d Series, p. 682.) 
Notes on Calypso borealis, Cypripedium pubescens and C. 
spectabile, Goodyera pubescens, and several Habenarias. 
Pasque Flower—Anemone Pulsatilla. (Vick’s Ill. Month. Mag., 
x, p. 177 ..onesctey 
Pinus Strobus. (Garden, xxxi., p. 404; two figures.) 
Sassafras officinale—W. Goldring (Garden, xxxi., p. 449, 
figure.) 
Scoliopus Halliiz, Watson.—Thos. Howell. (Bot. Gaz., xii., p. 111.) 
A description of the floral characters of this species, from 
plants collected by Mr. Howell at the original locality. 
Staining and Mounting Plant Sections.—C. Wellington. (The 
Microscope, viii., pp. 133, 134.) 
Weeds of Southwestern Wisconsin and Southeastern Minne- 
sota.—L,. H. Pammel. (Pamph., 8vo; pp. 20, Saint Paul. 1887.) 
A list of 88 plants, more or less troublesome as weeds, “a 
contribution to the flora of La Crosse and vicinity.” 
Proceedings of the Club. 
The regular monthly meeting was held on June 14th, the 
President in the chair, and 28 persons present. 
Miss C. A. Timmerman was elected an active member, and 
Dr. Walter H. Chapin, of Springfield, Mass., and Miss M. A. 
Booth, Longmeadow, Mass., were elected corresponding members. 
The Field Committee reported the following noteworthy 
plants detected on recent excursions: Orchis spectabilis, at In- 
‘wood; Cystopteris fragilis, near West New Brighton ; Stellaria 
graminea, Trifolium hybridum, Lysimachia thyrsifiora, at Little 
Ferry, N. J.; Glyceria distans and Polygonum ramosissimum, 
at New Lots, L. I. It also reported that the excursion to Tom’s 
River, N. J., May 28-30, in company with delegations from the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, of Philadelphia, had been success- 
fully carried out and had proved an occasion of much mutual, 
pleasure and profit. ; 
