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come chiefly to the pharmacist powdered, and adulterants are less 

 easily recognized. 



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with broad, 



thick leaves, woolly beneath, has proved disappointing, A. album, 

 with recurving habit, replacing it in the region about New York 

 City. Dr. Rusby also reported the rediscovery of Etionymus 

 atropurpureus, rare near New York, found near Little Falls N. T. 

 at an excursion of this club in June last. 



Mr. A. A. Heller spoke of his experience in the Olympic 

 Mountains, where the continuous rains interfered with collections. 

 Ferns grew in great profusion and often five feet high, but of few 

 species. The Salmonberry varied from yellow to deep red, and 

 was often an inch in diameter, on bushes ten feet high. 0.ra//s 

 Orcgana made a fine display, as also several species of Vaccmiuin, 

 V. parvifoluuH with red, and V. ovalifoliiim with blue berries. An 

 introduced blackberry, Rubiis laciniatus, is now well established 

 there, blooming from July to Christmas, and known as the Ever-' 

 green Blackberry. Spiraea Menziesii grew up by the streams, 

 with its rose-colored spike a foot and a half high. Lilwm Cohini 

 biamim appeared In the meadows. There were not many repre- 

 .sentatives of any family ; only about twenty composites out of 230 

 plants collected, of grasses about thirty-five. In August and Sep- 



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success. 



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Professor Lloyd reported a summer spent In study In the lab- 



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botanical garden there, which, although of but a few acres, Is ex- 

 ceedingly well arranged for educational purposes. 



Dr. M. A. Howe reported work on the hcpaticae, and his dis- 

 covery, on a hemlock stump In the New York Botanical Garden, of 

 genuine Cephalozia connivcns for the first time In the United States, 



the plant distributed by Austin under that name proving a different 

 species. 



Dr. Small spoke of work in Tennessee, and Mrs. Britton 

 the Adirondacks and elsewhere. Miss Inp-ersoll' evhihif-pd t^^.m 



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graphs of Cypripcdium spcctabile. Miss Sanial called attention to 

 tlie color variation in Monotropa iiniflora at Sterling, New York, 

 where she found a region In which all the specimens were pink- 



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