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ble to determine whether it was U. Americana, Mitten or U. 
Hutchinsig, Hammar. He condemns Braithwaite and Limpricht — 
for following Lindberg in the “deplorable exhumation” and | 
accuses the latter of reducing U. Americana, Mitten, to a syn- 
onymn of U. Americana, Beauv., without seeing the speci- 
mens. Now according to the rules of nomenclature there need 
be no confusion in the matter, for if U. Americana, Beauv. is lost, 
and its value cannot be determined, then let U. Hutchinsie stand, 
as it has, for the common European and American species, but 
do not take up the same name givén by Mitten (1865), to an- 
other specimen; rather let Mitten re-christen his species and 
revise his opinion on its alliance. I have sent a portion of the 
same plants sent to Venturi to Mitten and await his verdict. I 
think the plants in question are U. curvifolia, (Wahl.). 
E. G. B. 
Vitality of Ferns. Theo. Holm. (Bot. Gaz. xvii. 56). 
Proceedings of the Club. 
MEETING OF APRIL 12TH, 1892. 
The President in the Chair, and fifty-six persons present. 
Miss M. L. Taylor, Mrs. Elizabeth H. Kellogg and Mr. Ap- 
pleton P. Lyon were elected active members. 
Dr. J. W. Barstow, of Flushing, Long Island, long an active 
member, was elected a corresponding member. 
Dr. C.F. Millspaugh sent for exhibition a living specimen of 
Carex Fraseri, collected by Mr. L. W. Nuttall in southern West 
Virginia. This adds another to the few known localities of this 
interesting plant. Mr. Nuttall reports it as abundant, but subject 
to the depredations of some animal which eats the heads off be 
fore the fruit is mature. 
Professor Edward H. Day delivered the announced papef ¢ 
the evening on “ Fern Gathering in Jamaica.” The paper bic 
copiously illustrated by lantern views and herbarium specimen" 
