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Florida. The building has been erected by the citizens of Eustis, 
is 46 feet long and 34 feet wide and contains six rooms, one of 
them a visitor’s laboratory, which is provided for the use of stu- 
dents not connected with the institution. There is also an experi- 
mental garden of one and one-half acres. The Library consists 
of about 1,000 volumes and 1,000 pamphlets, and all the more 
important botanical serials are received. / 
Mr. Swingle also exhibited and described a new Florida palm, 
related to Sadal Palmetto and known as the Etonia palm. He | 
called especial attention to the fact that Florida still contains a 
large number of new or imperfectly known species of plants. 
Prof. Byron D. Halsted described a new species of Exodbast- 
dium, E, Pecku, occurring on Andromeda Mariana and causing the 
enlargement and modification of its flowers. He also showed 
specimens of Rhamphospora Nymphee, an Indian fungus now 
found on water-lily leaves in America, of a Phyllosticta following 
insect depredations and an Ascomycete on /iséia stratiotes. 
Mrs. Britton remarked on some of the more interesting mosses 
collected on Saturday’s trip to the dells of the Wisconsin River. 
Mr. A. B. Seymour read a paper on “The Synonymy of Valsa 
stellulata and its Synonymical Allies.” 
He also exhibited copies of a dichotomous key to the lichen 
genus C/adonia, arranged by Dr. F. Le Roy Sargent. 
A paper by Mr. S. A. Beach, “Some Observations on Black 
Knot,” was read’ by Dr. B. D. Halsted and discussed by Prof. 
W. H. Brewer and Prof. H. L. Bolley. The infection was noticed 
as much worse adjoining a row of old and badly infested plum 
trees. Proof was also adduced that infection must have taken 
place a year previous to the appearance of the disease. 
The following papers were read by title: 
“Sand Dune Weeds,” by L. H. Bailey. 
“ Propagation of Ranunculus delphinifolius by Runners,” by 
W. W. Rowlee. 
«Some Notes on the Genninaton of the Spores of Enteridium 
Rozeanum,’ by Elias J. Durand. 
“Herbarium Entomology,” by C. V. Riley. 
“ Yucca Pollination,” by C. V. Riley. 
“ Notes on a hexenbesen of Rudus,” by B. T. Galloway. 
