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Dr. Britton remarked on the re-discovery of Corema Conradit, 
near Cedar Bridge, N. J. The plant was observed by Mr. F. J. 
H. Merrill, in September last, and the locality visited after the 
Tom’s River trip by Messrs. Thomas Hogg, Northrop and 
Britton, and an abundance of specimens in good ines condition 
secured. 
Mr. Hollick reported the discovery by Mr. W. T. Davis of a 
new locality for Clematis ochroleuca, on a sand dune in the salt 
meadows near Watchogue, Staten Island. 
The Committee on the Meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science reported progress, and an offer 
from the Natural Science Association of Staten Island to co-operate 
with the Club in the entertainment of the Botanical Club of the 
Association was accepted. 
Mr. E. E. Sterns remarked on the gradual extinction of native 
plants on Manhattan Island, and exhibited a large number of 
living plants in flower. 
Dr. Britton showed a specimen of Pogonia affinis, Austin, 
collected near Trenton by Prof. A. C. Apgar, and others of P. 
verticillata, from Staten Island, and remarked on the unsatisfac- 
tory descriptions of these plants. He also exhibited Symplocarpus 
fetidus with two staminate spadices and a very large form or 
variety of Avalia nudicaulis with compounded leaves and inflor- 
escence, also communicated by Prof. Apgar; also a specimen of 
Sophora secundiflora, Benth., from Texas, with fasciated inflor- 
escence, sent by Dr. Vasey; a diminutive undescribed species of 
Hloustonia (H. Croftie, Britton and Rusby), from San Diego, 
Texas, and read a description of a supposed new genus of 
Anacardiacee from Bolivia. 
In view of the meeting of the American Association, it was 
resolved to hold meetings in July and August. This will bring 
about a meeting of the Club on the evening before the assemblage 
of the Association, which it is hoped all botanists will endeavor 
to attend. 
Judge Brown spoke of the paucity of American local floras 
as compared with those of Europe, and said that the descriptions 
of the Manuals, framed as they are for a wide range of locality, | 
_ are very unsatisfactory for careful distinction of species... 
