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This committee was instructed to inform the others of the 
- twenty-five charter members of the action taken, to draw up a 
constitution and to report at a meeting to be held beginning on 
the Monday preceding the next meeting of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science, and at the same place 
selected for the meeting of that association. Numerous topics 
were discussed at these informal meetings, among them the name 
of the new organization for which the terms American Botanical 
Society, Botanical Society of America and Society of American 
Botanists were proposed; the standard of membership to be 
maintained ; the question of one or mare classes of members; the 
fees for membership and initiation; the work of the organization, 
including publication, the number of annual meetings and the en- 
couragement of research. No formal action on any point was 
taken, but the opinions of those present were obtained and or- 
dered referred to the chairman of the committee of organization. 
Botanical Notes. 
Aralia nudicaulis, L., var. elongata, n. var.—Leaves longer and 
narrower than the type (5—6 in. long, by 114 in. wide) gradu- 
ally tapering to a point, rounded at base, coarsely and irregu- 
larly serrate, decidedly paler beneath. . 
I collected this on July 11 in the Catskill Mountains, on the 
top of Cairo Round Top, Greene county, at an elevation of about 
2,000 feet. It was growing in a rocky woods with the type- I 
saw several sterile plants, but collected only one in fruit. While 
the fruit-on a specimen of the type, collected within a few feet of 
this, was perfectly green, the fruit of the variety was entirely ripe- 
I did not have an opportunity to verify this, however. 
The leaves seem to be 3-foliolate, with a tendency in the ter- 
minal leaflet to divide to the base, giving the leaf a very odd and 
characteristic appearance. . Gro. V. Nasu. 
CLIFTON, N, J., Sept. 6, 1893. 
Carex arctata, Boott., var. Faxoni, Bailey. — 
A single specimen of this rare sedge was collected by me 4 
Grayling, Mich., in 1889. It had not been previously found in 
the lower peninsula of this State, and so far as I know, has bese, 
