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STOKESIA LAEVIs (Hill) Greene, Eryth. 1: 3. 1893. 
Carthamus laevis Hill, Hort. Kew. 57. f/. 5. 1760. 
Stokesia cyanea L’ Her. Sert. Angl. 27. 1788. 
Cartesia centauroides Cass. Bull. Philom. 1816: 198. 1816. 
This beautiful plant, usually considered the rarest of the Com- 
positae, is extremely abundant along the whole length of the Mis- 
sissippi coast, growing in dry or moist pine-barrens, and bearing 
a striking resemblance to a large As¢er. 
Errantuus Tracyi Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 24: 37, 1897. 
A fine new species of Zrianthus, collected only in a single lo- 
cality in the vicinity of the Agricultural College, near Starkville. 
(No. I 341.) 
Proceedings of the Club. 
Tugspay EveNiINnG, FEBRUARY 9, 1897. 
The President occupied the chair and there were about 200 
persons present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The President reported the following appointments of Com- 
mittees : ae 
Committee on Finance: J. I. Kane, Wm. E. Wheelock, M.D. 
Committee on Admissions: Cornelius Van Brunt, ,Jeannette 
B. Greene, M.D. 
Library and Herbarium Committee: Eugene P. Bicknell, 
Helen M. Ingersoll, Wm. E. Wheelock, M.D., Marie L. Sanial. 
Committee on Local Flora.—Phanerogamia: Prof. Thos. C. 
Porter, N. L. Britton, Ph.D., H. H. Rusby, M.D. Cryptogamia: 
Prof. L. M. Underwood, Maria O. Le Brun, Smith Ely Jel- 
liffe, M.D. 
Committee on Mosses: Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton. 
The regular program was then taken up, being a lecture by 
Henry A. Siebrecht, entitled “ Orchids, their Habitat, Manner of 
Collecting and Cultivation.” 
The paper was handsomely illustrated with lantern slides by 
Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt, colored by Mrs. Van Brunt. 
