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fungus; he also described the smut so abundant in the inflor- 
-escence of Cyperus Grayii—probably a species of Cintractia. Mr. 
Scribner supplemented Dr. Arthur’s remarks. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 16th. 
The Committee on Nominations reported as follows: 
For Chairman, David F. Day, of Buffalo. 
For Secretary, Volney M. Spalding, of Ann Arbor. 
The report was accepted and the officers elected for next 
year. 
The Committee on Resolutions submitted the following: 
We, the members of the Botanical Club of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, gratefully appreciating the innumerable courtesies which have 
been extended to us by the Torrey Botanical Club, during the session of the Associa- 
tion now about to close, find it both a duty and a pleasure to place upon our records 
this faint expression of our indebtedness and gratitude. 
RESOLVED: That we tender our sincere thanks to the members of the Torrey 
Botanical Club, whose liberality towards their brother botanists seems an inheritance 
from the distinguished scientist whose name they bear, for their constant and com- 
pletely successful efforts to minister to our comfort and pleasure during our stay in the 
city of New York ; and for the generosity and fraternal kindness which have opened 
to our inspection and study the priceless treasures of the Torrey Herbarium and Li- 
brary ; and for the valuable gifts of botanical specimens characteristic of this vicinity, 
with which some of us have been enriched ; and for the repeated opportunities which 
they have provided for us of examining and collecting in their native haunts many of 
the most important and interesting plants of the seaboard and its vicinity ; and for 
their constant and untiring endeavors to make our sojourn in the metropolis replete 
with pleasure and profit. 
Prof. Macloskie read some notes on the marginal hairs of the 
watermelon seed, stating that in a transverse section the patches 
of white in the gelatinous layer prove to be hairs packed trans- 
versly, which when moistened extend and show a zig-zag 
branching. They illustrate the crowding of young organs. 
A. A. Crozier presented for distribution the first part of the 
list of desiderata of the Herbarium Department of Agriculture. 
Mrs. N. L. Britton stated that for the second time this year the 
' Wistaria is blooming abundantly at New Dorp, Staten Island, and 
called attention to the difference in the inflorescence, the second 
racemes forming at the ends of the young branches and elongat- 
__ ing with them, sometimes attaining a length of two feet. It was 
_ also stated that pods are more frequently formed from this second — 
