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May I not ask that a hearty support be given to the committee 
by every botanist, to the end that the Congress may be every way 
successful. CHARLES E. BEssEy, 
Chairman Section G (Botany) A. A. A. S. 
Amarantus blitoides, 5. Watson. During last summer (1892) 
I discovered a single plant of Amarantus Odlitoides, growing 
along the track of the C. R. R. of N. J., about a-half mile south of 
the Sewaren, N. J., station on Long Branch Division. This plant 
is new to the 100-mile range, and the seed had evidently been 
brought by the cars. The plant was large and full of bloom, so 
that, no doubt, the locality will be permanently established. This 
species belongs in the far West, but I believe it has been reported 
by D. F. Day, as introduced into the neighborhood of Buffalo, N. 
Y. Professor Halsted tells me that he has seen it about New 
Brunswick, N. J. L- H. LIGHTHIPE. 
Viburnum prunifolium, L. var. globosum; Geo. V. Nash, n. 
var.—This differs from the type in several particulars. The most 
conspicuous one is in the fruit, which is globose, and but little 
more than half as large—about 4% of aninch. It differs also in 
the smaller cymes, and in its divaricately branching habit. The 
specimen I found only grew five or six feet high. The flowers 
appear before the leaves, and it was this which first drew my at- 
tention to it, and led me to watch it for further differences. 
Others may have found this variety also, and it is only reason- 
able to suppose they have. I found it in a section where the type 
grows in abundance, and it is strange that this variety has never 
been noted before. There is nothing in the Columbia College 
Herbarium like it, nor do I find reference in any work to such 
a form. Gro. V. NASH. - 
CuLiFTON, N. J., Dec. 12, 1892. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
TuEsDAY, JANUARY I0, 1893. 
Annual meeting. The president in the chair and twenty-eight 
persons present. . 
The committee appointed to draw up resolutions on the life 
