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comes from Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana; the apteroti?; 

 forms are referred to Zizia, Koch; 7! aiireum, Niitt., var. apte- 

 rum, Gray, becoming Z. aurea, Koch, with a new variety Beb- 

 bit, from the southern mountains of the Appalachian system, and 

 T. trifoliattun^ Gray, var. apterunty is Z. cordata, Koch. Ch<2ro- 

 pkylhim Tatnttirieri, and its var. dasycarpum, I look,, are referred 

 to C, procumbens, Crantz, as varieties under the same names; C. 

 sativum, L., is Anthriscus Cerefolinm, Hoffm. Discopleura Nut- 

 tahi^ DC, IS referred to D. capillacea as a variety. Leptocaulis 



Ap 



kept up as genera, Apiiim Butleri, Engelm., b( 

 selifmm Butleri. The difficult genus Eryngiu 



graphed. 



Proceedings of the Club. 



The regular meeting of the Club was held on Tuesday even- 

 ing, Jan. loth, 1888, at Columbia College, the President in the 

 chair and thirty-two persons present. 



Messrs. N. O. Wilhelm, W. C. Peckham and Geo. Rignell 

 were elected Active Members. 



Miss Grace E. Cooley, Miss Clara E. Cummings, and Messrs. 

 F. L. Harvey, Walter Deane, E. S. Bastin, Henry M. Ami and 

 Chas. B. Plowright were elected Corresponding Members. 



Reports of officers for the past year were read and accepted. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 President, Dr. J. S. Newberry; Vice-President, Thos. Hogg; 

 Treasurer, J. F. Poggenburg; Recording Secretary, Arthur Hol- 

 lick; Corresponding Secretary, Miss H. C. Gaskin; Librarian, 



Miss M. O. Steele; Editor, M 

 J 



Miss 



Prof Byron D. Halsted read a paper upon " Trigger hairs of 

 the thistle flower {Cnicus altissimus)'' 



Dr. N. L. Britton remarked on a small collection of plants, 

 made by Mr. W. S. Rusby in June, 18S7, in the Black Hills of 



Dakota. A 



the following not 



recorded in the list by Dr. Gray in the Report on the Geology 



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