648 Proceedings of the Club 



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Digby, Grand Pre, at Pictou, a station for Funis serratus ; at 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton ; at Channel, near the southwestern 

 end of Newfoundland, the richest locality in the larger kelps. 

 There the coast, Newfoundland is almost treeless, as is generally 

 reputed, though firewood and lumber are obtainable twenty miles 

 inland, but the west coast farther north is forested with spruce, 

 'fir, and tamarack, with yellow and white birch. Journeying east 

 through the practically uninhabited interior, a thin coniferous 

 forest was met, especially all around the numerous lakes, 

 fires had been through it, for 20 or 30 miles all was a flaming 



purple of fireweed (Epilobiiuti). 



Dr. Howe remained four weeks in Newfoundland, and was 

 afterward at Halifax Harbor, N. S., where Harvey, author of the 

 Nereis, had made many collections. Altogether, Dr. Howe, with 

 his two companions, collected about 12,000 specimens, including 

 duplicates, a third of this number being algae. 



Mr. R. M. Harper reported collecting again in Georgia, with 

 about 500 numbers, visiting many new localities, traveling about 

 1400 miles by rail, and doing much work on plant-distribution. 

 He spoke particularly of the remarkable flora of the sand hills in 

 Bulloch county, resembling the " scrub " flora in Florida. Among 

 the interesting plants collected by Mr. Harper were Elliottia, and, 

 at Thomasville, Ga., Nymphaca orbiadata. 



Dr. Rydberg reported on his visit to Sweden and Norway, 

 with interesting comparisons of the subalpine flora of Norwegian 

 moraine and mountain slopes visited, the plants chiefly circumpolar 

 and therefore common to North America. 



Mr. William A. Murrill reported his attendance on the Bo- 

 tanical Congress at Geneva and that of the zoologists at Berlin, 

 with references to kind attentions <riven him at the Kew Gardens 



and the Linnaean Society rooms, London. 



Mr. Lighthipe mentioned a new locality, at West Orange, for 

 Nasturtium sylvcstre, rare in New Jersey. 



Mrs. Isaac P. Harris spoke of her work in the Adirondacks 

 among the lichens, with one species new to her in that region. 



Brief remarks followed regarding fall blossoming and foliation 

 in New York City. It was noted that the maples, lindens, and 

 buttonvvoods in Union Square, Washington Square and Madison 



