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The following communications were then presented: 
By Mr. Arthur Hollick, “On Palm Leaves from the Creta- 
ceous Strata at Glen Cove, L. I.” The paper is printed in the 
present BULLETIN. 
By Dr. Thomas Morong, on “The North American Species of 
Smilax.” The paper was fully illustrated by numerous specimens 
and was discussed by Messrs. Hollick, Curtiss and Rusby. 
By Dr. Britton and Mr. Kraemer, “On a Collection of Plants 
made by Dr. Timothy E. Wilcox, U. S. A., in the Vicinity of 
Fort Huachuca, Arizona.” Several species new to the United 
States Flora were presented. 
The presentation by the editor of a copy of Dr. Morong’s 
Monograph of the North American Naiadacee, Memorrs, Vol. 
III, Part 2, elicited an expression of thanks from the author to 
members of the Club for their assistance, by which it had been 
possible for his work to become published. 
Index to Recent Literature Relating to American Botany. 
Abutilon— Ueber die Gattung. A Garcke (Engler’s Bot. Jahrb. 
xv. 480-492). , 
Agave filifera. \. Miinzer (Monatsb. Kakteenk. iii. 17). 
Note on the flowering of this species in the Berlin Botanical 
Garden. 
Botanical Congress—An International, Chas. E. Bessey (Amer. 
Nat. 1893, 279). 
Dr. Bessey, as Vice President of the Section of Botany, A. A. 
A. S., has appointed a committee of eleven botanists to arrange 
for an international Botanical Congress to be held at Madison 
next August. 
Buttonwood—The. J. T. Rothrock (Forest Leaves, iv. 5, 6). 
With a fine illustration of Platanus occidentalis. 
Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Vascular Cryptogams, found 
in and near Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys, Pa. William 
R. Dudley and Charles O. Thurston (Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1892). 
This is substantially a reprint of the preliminary list published 
in 1887 by Prof. Dudley (then of Cornell, now of the Leland Stan- 
ford University, Cal.), in the Proceedings of the Lackawanna Insti-_ ; 
