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rate terms for a number of clumsy and inaccurate ones. The 

 illustrations also should be improved, as they are decidedly below 

 the standard of publications of this kind. H. II. R. 



UmbellifcrtE: — Notes on North American. — //. John M. Coulter 

 and J. N. Rose. (Bot. Gaz. xv, 259,-261, PL vv.) 

 The following are described as new : Hydrocotyle Bonariensis^ 

 Lam. van Texana^ and Arracacia Donucll-Smithii^ the latter 

 figured. 



Yuccas. — Sonic Good, A. Davenport. (Am. Garden, xi. GG6^ 

 66"], illutrated.) 



Contains a picture of Yucca gloriosa van reciirvifolia. 



Proceedings of the Club, 



The Regular Meeting was held on Tuesday evening, Nov. 

 I ith, the President in the Chair and fifteen persons present. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Instruction reported fav- 

 orably on the season's work. The majority of the students arc 

 continuing their botanical work. 



The paper as announced, *' Notes on the Spring Flora of the 

 Southern Alleghanics/' was then given by Miss Anna Murray 

 Vail. 



Among tlie mau}^ plants shown Clematis Addisonii, the new 

 species which Dr. Britton has named for our President, attracted 

 most attention. 



The Second November meeting was held Nov. 26th, the 

 President In the Chair and twenty-nine persons present. 



Mr. R. S. Williams and F. D. Kelsey were elected Correspond- 

 ing Members and Mr. F. W. Anderson an Active Memben 



The amendment to the Constitution was voted upon and car- 

 ried unanimously. . 



The regular meeting days \\\\\ now be the second Tuesday 

 and last Wednesday of eacli month. 



Dn Rusby's paper, " Collecting in the Tropical Andes/' then 

 followed. At its close the Club listened with great attention to 

 remarks corroborative of Dn Rusby's experience and descriptive 

 of his own from Dn Thos. Morong, who has just returned from 

 Paraguay and Chili. 



