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teresting; as is also the light: thrown upon the distribution of this 
pretty form of the water-lily. C. F. MILLspauGu. 
Notes on Scabiosa australis and Reseda alba. Referring to Mr. 
Redfield’s note in the BuLLETIN regarding Scadiosa australis, 
Wulf., I think it may be of interest to report an additional station 
for it. I found it September 27, 1889, at Lisle, Broome county, 
N. Y., perhaps twenty or thirty rods south of the D. L. & W. 
Station, on the east side of the track, on the railroad ground, 
where it was well established, having taken entire possession of 
the ground for several rods, and in two or three different patches. 
I have noticed it several times since as I was passing on the train, — 
the last time being only three weeks ago, and it seems to be still 
spreading. On the date above mentioned I sent some of it to 
Dr. Watson, and under date of September 30th he writes: “It is 
naturalized in several places in central New York and Pennsyl- 
vania and perhaps should go into the Manual.” I have thought 
sometimes that my calling attention to it just before the issuing of 
the Manual was the reason it appeared in the appendix. 
I found in June, 1890, Reseda alba, L., growing by the side of 
the street in Youngstown, O. As it is not a plant that any one 
would cultivate for either its beauty or its fragrance, I could not — 
consider it an escape from a garden,and wondered how it got there. 
There were a dozen or more plants, but I have not had opportunity 
since to learn if it persists in the same place or not; I will try 
and learn next summer. Has it been reported before ? 
R. H. INGHAM. 
Nixes, Onto, Nov. 24, 1892. 
[ Reseda alba, L. is reported in Mr. David F. Day’s Catalogue of the Plants of 
Buffalo, N. Y., as “spontaneousin gardens and escaping.” —Ep. ] £ 
Proceedings of the Club. 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30TH, 1892. 
The President in the chair and thirty-six persons present. 
Dr. Britton reported a communication from E. W. McCabe to 
the effect that the late Miss Phcebe McCabe had expressed a wish 
that upon her death her herbarium should pass into the possession __ 
of the Club, for which she had always entertained a deep regard. | 
Dr. Britton remarked upon. the energy with which she had collected 
