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Cymbalaria Cymbalaria (L.) Wetts. in eastern Pennsylvania. 
Yor some years I have observed and collected the above-named 
plant at several places along roadsides between Lancaster and 
Safe Harbor. During the past summer I found it established in 
the extreme southern part of Lancaster County, near Pleasant 
Grove. J. K. SMALL. 
CRATAEGUS VAILIAE n. sp. A shrub, 3°-6° high, the branches 
stout, light gray; thorns about 1’ long; leaves oval, 1/-3’ long, 
short-petioled, pubescent on both sides, but becoming glabrate 
_and slightly shining above, acute at both ends, or some of them 
obtuse at the apex, sharply serrate nearly all around, sometimes 
slightly 3-lobed, those of young shoots sometimes nearly orbicu- 
lar, the petioles sparingly glandular, or glandless ; stipules narrow, 
very glandular; corymbs 2-6-flowered; pedicels and calyx densely 
pubescent; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 4-6’ long, deeply incised, 
glandular, nearly as long as the petals, reflexed in fruit; pome 
globose, yellowish green, 4-5” in diameter. 
Collected by Miss Anna Murray Vail, on the bank of the Roa- 
noke River, Roanoke, Va., May, 1890, and by Dr. John K. Small, 
at the Falls of the Yadkin River, N. C., August, 1892. It is 
_earest to C. uniflora Muench. N. L. Britton. 
Proceedings of the Club. 
ANNUAL MEETING, TuESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1897. 
The President occupied the chair and there were 33 persons _ 
present. : i 
; The following persons were elected active members: Miss . 
Edith K. Joyce, Mr. A. J. Grout, Mr. W. N. Clute, Mr. M. A. 
Howe, Dr. H. N. Richards, Dr. H. B. Ferguson. & 2 
The following were elected corresponding members: Mr. E. . 
M. Holmes, Curator, Museum Phar. Soc. of Great Britain; Mr. J. : 
H. Hart, Director Royal Botanic Garden, Port of Spain, Trinidad, _ 
West Indies. | 
The Committee on the death of Mr. Rudkin presented the fol 
lowing report: | S 
Resolved, That in the death, on the 13th of November, last, of 
Mr. William H. Rudkin, one of the early members of the Torrey 
Botanical Club, we have lost a most valued friend, a long and 
