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Mrs. Britton reported having found five stations for Schisto- 
stega osmundacea in the Adirondacks, near Adirondack Lodge. 
She stated that Prychomitrium pygmeum Lesq. and James is only 
P. incurvum. 
WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3IST, 1894. 
Vice President Allen in the chair and 20 persons present. 
The following named persons were elected active members: 
_ Mr. T. S. Constantine, Jr., Miss Catharine Barker, New York 
eCity. 
___ Aninvitation was received from the President of the New York 
College of Pharmacy, offering the Club the use of the Assembly 
Rooms of that institution on any evening mutually agreed upon, 
and also to inspect the new building. The invitation was grate- 
fully accepted and the arrangements were referred to the Record- 
ing Secretary with power. 7 
The Chairman reported some of the results of an examination 
of the Characez of Lake Champlain and Lake Saratoga during the 
Summer. He had found the west side of Lake Champlain almost 
barren of these plants, but had collected a new form of Chara 
Sejuncta and Chara gymnopus elegans in Great South Bay, an arm 
of that lake. The same two species were found in Lake Sara- 
toga. He exhibited Nymphea rubrodisca from Lake Champlain 
and Bidens Beckii from Lake Saratoga. 
Dr. Britton reported the occurrence of Coltsfoot, 7ussidago 
Farfara, near Garretson’s, Staten Island, and remarked on the 
rarity of this plant in the area of the local flora, stating that it was 
reported many years ago by Dr. Knieskern from Monmouth 
County, N. J., and that he had himself once observed it mear Port 
Jervis, in southern New York. i 
Mr. Barnhart reported the occurrence of A/liaria Alliaria near 
Hastings, N. Y. . 
The following announced papers were then presented: . 
“On wing-like Appendages on the Petioles of Liriophyllum pop- 
wloides Lesq. and Liriodendron alatum Newb., with Description of 
_the latter,” by Arthur Hollick. (Published in this BULLETIN) 
“ Notes on a Revision of the Genus Scouleria with Description ae 
