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_ guinqueseta (Mx.) under the name H. Michauxii, Nutt., and #. 
repens, Nutt. 
An interesting question in nomenclature is suggested by the 
author’s use of 7. fimdbriata, Wight, for a species of the East In- 
dies. Wight in 1852 adopted this name apparently under the im- 
pression that the Platanthera fimbriata of Willdenow, applied to 
a different genus, which would leave him at liberty to use it for 
Habenaria. But the name fiériata must be rejected both in this 
case as well as in the case of our own fimébriata, so-called, as it 
was employed by Aiton in 1813 as a synonym of H. psycodes (L.), 
Asa Gray. See 
Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen Flora, Part 21, pp. 449-512 (1893), 
Mniacez and Meeseacez. Several changes in the genus J/mmm 
which affect our North American species are of interest: J. Selt- 
geri, Milde (1869), and JZ. rugicum, Laurer (1827), are separated 
from JV. affine, Bland, the leaves of the former being long-de- 
current at base with the marginal teeth one-celled, the second in- 
distinctly toothed with base short-decurrent, and the last also 
short-decurrent, but the teeth composed of 2-4 cells. None of 
the older names adopted by Lindberg are accepted. E. G. B. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
Tugspay Eveninc, May 9TH, 1893. 
The President in the chair and 32 persons present. 
Miss Gertrude Appleby, of New York, was elected an Active 
Member. 
The committee appointed at the meeting of April 11th, 1893, 
to draw up a suitable minute regarding the death of M. Alphonse - 
De Candolle for publication in the proceedings of the Club, pre- 
sented the following report, which was accepted: os 
M. Alphonse De Candolle, an Honorary Member of this Club _ 
and one of the most eminent botanists of our time, died at Geneva, : c 
Switzerland, April 4th, 1893, in the 87th year of his age. oe 
He was born at Paris, but resided most of his life in and near 
Geneva. He was a son of the equally famous Augustin Pyramus 
De Candolle, and was associated with him in much of the botani- 
