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Proceedings of the Club. 
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1893. 
Dr. J. Bernard Brinton in the chair and sixteen persons 
present. 
The following papers were read : 
“On the Genus Amelanchier, Medic.,’ by Dr. N. L. Hnnee 
illustrated by specimens. 
‘ ne Geographical Disuibutian of the Plants of Pennsyl- 
vania,” by Prof. Thos. C. Porter. 
Dr. Britton exhibited a copy of Trew’s “ Plante Selectz,” re- 
cently acquired by the botanical library of Columbia College. 
Index to Recent Literature relating to American Botany. 
Aberrant Forms in Cultivated Diatoms. Samuel Lockwood (Am. 
Mo. Mic. Journ. xiv. 269—27 3). 
From “ Le Diatomiste,” June, 1893. 
Acer rubrum, var. Drummondi. . Spath (Gartenfl. xli. 357, with 
colored illustration). 
Additions to the Flora of Colorado—Fungt. T. D. A. Cockerell 
(Zoé, iv. 282). 
Aechmea Barleei. HH. Witte (Gartenfl. xli. 359, with illustration). 
Agave Americana. N. H. George and L. Wittmack (Gartenfl. xli. 
269, with figures). 
Ampelopsis guinquefolia—A Variety of. E. B. Knerr (Trans. 
Kansas Acad. Sci. xiii. 69). 
Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State of New York. 
Charles H. Peck (45th Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist., Al- 
bany, 1893; reprint). | 
A list of plants not heretofore recorded from the State is given, 
fifteen or more species of Fungi are described as new, a study of 
- the New York species of the genus Omphalia and other notes. 
, a ee sobre alcunos Helechos Mexicanos de la 
aren de las. José N. Rovirosa (Naturaleza (Ser. ii.) ii. 1 79). 
