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mittee. The report was referred to the Committees on the Local 
Flora. 
Twenty-four field meetings in all were held, with an average 
attendance of twelve persons. At Woodhaven, Long. Island, a 
new locality for Menyanthes trifoliata was detected; one of the 
plants observed bore two leaflets instead of three. At White 
Plains, Westchester Co., Claytonia Caroliniana, rare in the region, 
was collected. High Point, Sussex Co., N. J., was visited on 
Decoration Day, especially for the investigation of a Vaccinium 
with black fruit, found there in July of the previous year; this 
was found, but its flowers were nearly all past. It appears to be 
V. Canadense, var. nigrum, Wood, and may prove to bea dis- 
tinct species. (See BULLETIN xviii. 136). The following plants 
of especial interest were collected: Rhododendron canescens, iM 
full flower ; a Crategus, growing with the ordinary form of C. ¢o¢- 
cinea, but blooming much later, with numerous densely glandu- 
lar bracts to the flowers and leaves narrowed, not truncate at the 
base, marking it as a distinct species, probably the Mespi/us glan- 
dulosa of Moench; Aguilegia vulgaris, escaped along roadsides; 
Lquisetum sylvaticum, and along a roadside near Port Jervis, N. 
Y., Tussilago Farfara. 
On June 6th, by invitation of Mr. Jas. R. Pitcher, about sixty. 
persons, including a part of the summer class in botany, visited 
the American Nurseries at Short Hills, N. J., and a most delight- 
ful day was experienced. In addition to the wealth of floral 
display of the great green-houses, nearly one thousand species of 
hardy perennials were seen growing in the open air. Messfs. 
Pitcher and Manda were most attentive in pointing out plants of 
especial interest, many of which were quite novel to many of the 
visitors. 
Sandy Hook, N. J., was visited on July 25th, and its plants — 
carefully listed. Martynia proboscidea, which has been established 
there for many years, was found to be scarcer than formerly. 4% _ 
plenium platyneuron, which generally grows in rocky places, 0 
curs here in pure sand and the introduced Lactuca Scartola was 
noticed. At Forbell’s Landing, Long Island, Sept. 19th, C/eomé 
Spinosa was found in the woods; Aster concolor, A. spectabilts, 
Diodia teres and Menyanthes trifoliata were other species of in- 
hee 6 mbisaiis us rhizophyllus was found at Little Falls, . 
*y ctober 3d, growi { ou 
to the Club by Me Tomer a oe 
Professor Porter sent for exhibition photographs of a decay - 
chip of Quercus alba, in which the medullary rays of the woor 
were shown persistent after the decay of most of the wood-cells. . 
