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Palla, received through the kindness of Mr. John T. Morris. 



Dr. Conard showed and commented on a recently pub- 

 lished volume descriptive of the Appalachian Park area as 

 outlined in the governmental report on the subject. Miss 

 E. O. Abbot urged the members to a continued support of 

 the claims of the park, and asked for subscriptions toward 

 the cause of advancing legislation on the subject. 



November 21. Dr. Miller, President, in the chair. Dr. 

 H. S. Conard spoke on "Dew and Rain Plants from the 

 Olympic Mountains," as observed and collected during his 

 trip of the past summer. In thinking of the plant types 

 encountered, he said that the excessive rainfall, the greatest 

 in the United States, had to be taken into account. The 

 greater part of the area that he studied was precipitous, 

 being made up of deep valleys and rugged peaks. The tree 

 branches were festooned at times with moss about twenty 

 feet in length. The morphological peculiarities of Ranun- 

 culus Greeni, R. aquatilis and R. Hammula var. reptans, 

 Lignstictim Grayi and Lycopus Virginiana were described. 

 A frequent feature was the formation of bulbils in plants of 

 widely different alliances. 



Dr. J. W. Harshberger then gave "Observations on the 

 Flora of the Higher Appalachians." After describing the 

 topography of the region, he referred to the characteristic 

 Canadian flora of the mountain summits. At an altitude of 

 500 feet, the rich, deciduous forest was replaced by a conifer- 

 ous one of two species, the black spruce (Picca Mariana) and 

 the balsam spruce (Abies Fraseri). The vegetation on 

 Mount Mitchell, 6,711 feet high, was then described. The 

 rapid disappearance, through extermination by plant col- 

 lectors, of such species as Lilium Grayi, Rhododendron 

 Vaseyi, etc., was noted with regret. 



Dr. Macfarlane then made "A Comparison of the Minute 

 Structure of the Seedling and Adult Pitchers of Nepen- 

 thes." and illustrated by slides, also by a collection of seed- 

 ling hybrids raised by Mr. Goucher at the University Botanic 



