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In this article we have pictures meant to represent the leaf 
forms and branching of Quercus alba, Q. coccinea, Q. tinctoria, 
Ulmus Americana and Pyrus Malus. 
Proceedings of the Club, 
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25TH. 
The Vice-President, Dr. T. F. Allen, in the Chair and twenty- 
three persons present. 
Miss Jeannette Clenan and Mrs. J. K. Cilly were elected 
active members. 
Dr. Rusby and Dr. Morong were appointed cline: to 
represent the Club at the proposed conference of members 
of the scientific societies of New York City. 
Reports were received from the Committee on Instruction 
and from the Field Committee of 18go. 
Dr. Britton remarked on a Vaccinium observed by him on the 
excursion of July 4th. to High Point, N. J., which appears to be 
V. Pennsylvanicum, var. nigrum, Wood. He stated that the 
same plant had been collected and repeatedly observed on the 
Pocono plateau of Pennsylvania by Dr. Porter, and that it was 
pretty clearly a distinct species. He also alluded to Vitis Solonts, 
Planch., collected by Dr. Porter at Easton, Penn., and Vitis 
Virginiana, Munson, recently described from West Virginia, two 
grapes not alluded to in recent manuals of botany, but which 
claim recognition as species or varieties. Vitis rupestris, Scheele, 
a southwestern species, has been found by Dr. Porter in southern 
Pennsylvania. 
“TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH IOTH. 
Dr. Thos. Morong in the Chair and thirty persons present. 
Dr. Washington Matthews of Fort Wingate, New Mexico, 
was elected a corresponding member. 
Dr. Britton delivered the announced lecture for the evening 
on “Grasses.” The address was profusely illustrated by lantern 
slides. 
