Proceedings of the Club 



Wednesday, February 27, 1901 



This meeting was held at the Museum of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Dr. Allen presided. Twenty-five persons were 

 present. Miss Delia W. Marble was chosen Secretary pro tern. 

 Prof. A. D. Selby, Wooster, Ohio, was elected an active member. 



The list of committees for 1901 was adopted as follows : 

 Committee on Finance : J. I. Kane, C. F. Cox. Committee on 

 Admissions: Cornelius Van Brunt, 319 E. 57th St., N. Y. City; 



W. Marbl 



John 



A. M 



ical Garden, Bronx Park. Committee on Library and Herbarium : 

 Per Axel Rydberg, R. S. Williams, Anna M. Vail, Alexandrina 

 Taylor. Committees on the Local Flora : Dr. N. L. Britton ; 

 Phanerogamia, Eugene F. Bicknell, H. H. Rusby, M.D., Fanny 



llford ; Cryptogamia, Prof. L. M. Underwood, Marshall A. 

 Howe, Ph.D., Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton. Committee on Excur- 

 sions, Dr. L. Schoeney, 1670 Lexington Avenue, New York City; 

 George V. Nash, Eugene Smith, Marie L. Sanial, Miss L. K. 

 Lawall. Committee on Program : N. L. Britton, Marshall A. 

 Howe, L. M. Underwood. 



The scientific program followed, introduced by Dr. Britton 

 with a paper, " On some Senecios of the Eastern United States." 



The critical study of this genus dates from 1893, when Dr. 

 Rusby collected in the Green Mountains a peculiar plant, de- 

 scribed but not published in the middle of the century by Oakes, 

 and named by him Senecio Robbinsii. Dr. Rusby described this 

 plant in the Bulletin in 1893. 



While working up the genus for the Illustrated Flora in 

 1895-6, Professor Britton found that Senecio aureus of Gray's 

 Manual included six different things, and the following species 

 were separated : 



Senecio obovatus, S. discoideus, S. Balsamitae', S. Sniallii, S. 

 compactus, S. Robbinsii, besides 5. aureus with two varieties. 



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