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Mr. Peck’s annual reports for 1891 and 1892 appeared in close 
succession during the autumn of 1893. The form of his previous 
reports is preserved, giving general notes on the work of his de- 
partment, a list of plants added to the State herbarium, a list of 
contributors and their contributions, notes on plants not before 
reported by him as occurring within the State, and remarks and 
observations on various species, under which heading in both 
reports a large number of fungi are described as new species. 
Monographs of the New York species of Omphalea, Pluteola 
and Galera are appended. N. LOB: 
Abutilon vitifolium. J.D. Hooker (Bot. Mag. 2. 7 328, December, 
1893). 
Illustration and description of this fine Chilian species. 
Neue Asiatische und Amerikanische Gentianien. N. J. Kusenow 
(Act. Hort. Petrop. 13: 52-64, 1893). 
Four new species of American Gentians are here described a5 _ 
new—G. scaberrima, said to be related to G. Saponaria and G. El 
liotti, and which appears from the description to be a narrow” 
leaved form of the latter, G. Grayi, based on a specimen collected 
by H. C. Beardslee in Michigan and labelled G. puderula and said 
to resemble both G. puderula and G. linearis, and which we do not 
satisfactorilly refer to any species known to us; if any one 1m 
America possesses a duplicate of this collection we should be glad 
to see it; also G. Californica from California and G. ovatiloba from 
Mexico (Bourgeau, No. 1123 bis.). . N. LB. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1894. 
The President in the chair and fourteen persons present. 
Mrs, Britton announced the death of Dr. Richard Spruce, ° 
of our corresponding members and a botanist of distinction. 
Spruce was connected with the work of collecting plants and 
seeds of the Cinchona trees for introduction to culture in British 
India. At this time and subsequently, he made great collection® 
of plants in Peru and upon the upper Amazon, and he has hee 
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