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2. Dr. M. A. Howe was made Editor of the Club's new jour- 

 nal Torreya. 



3. The matter of subscriptions to Torreya was turned over to 

 the Treasurer. 



4. The Board of Editors was allowed one hundred dollars to- 

 ward defraying the expenses of the new journal Torreya. 



5. To all members of the Club, Torreya is to be sent free. 



The scientific program was as follows : E. S. Burgess, " Re- 

 marks on the History of Aster Claytoni "; E. G. Britton, " Some 

 Mosses collected in Washington State by F. L. Gardner." The 

 second paper was deferred on account of the lateness of the hour. 



The paper by E. S. Burgess on the history of Aster Claytoni, 

 which will soon appear in print, was illustrated by a series of 

 specimens showing type and variations, and a range from the Hud- 

 son River to Virginia. The first specimen known was collected in 



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to the sources of the Rappahannock. It is no. y6j of the Grono- 

 vian herbarium preserved by the British Museum. Comparisons 

 kindly made by Mr. Edmund G. Baker, of the British Museum, 

 show its identity with plants observed first on Manhattan Island 

 at Inwood, by E. S. Burgess, in 1896, and kept under observation 

 since for study of development. The description of no. 767 writ- 

 ten by Clayton and Gronovius, and published in the Flora Vir- 

 ginia, Part III., in 1762, without a specific name, long remained 

 without reference to any of our known native species, Forster's 



iphy 



In re- 



establishing the species in the Illustrated Flora in 1 898 under the 

 name Aster Claytoni, it was intended to pay this tardy tribute to 



John 



America 



The species seems particularly frequent in the lower Hudson re- 

 gion, where it had however been hitherto confused with its 

 smoother and more forking ally, Aster divaricatus. 



Edward S. Burgess, 



Secretary. 



