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showed the specimens and a fine set of water-color drawings 

 in illustration. 



Mr. Francis Windle described " Fasciated and Proliferous 

 specimens of Rudbeckia hirta and of Erigeron canadense." 

 The latter showed proliferous receptacular shoots, each of 

 which developed one or more secondary heads or flowers. 



Professor Kraemer described "The Crystals of Datura 

 Stramonium." He stated that one form of crystal of small 

 size occurred in the root, two in the stem, the same number in 

 the leaves, but there each type in inverse ratio as regards 

 quantity and shape to those in the stem. One or other type 

 occurred also in the flower stalk and floral leaves. Drs. 

 Leffmann, Miller and Kraemer then discussed the possible 

 mode of origin and chemical relation of oxalate crystals. 



Dr. Harshberger made " A Review of Recent Fungologi- 

 cal Literature," including works by Massee, Underwood and 

 Green. 



December i. Dr. Miller in the chair. Miss Mira L. Dock 

 described " Arboretums and Botanic Gardens Abroad." She 

 spoke of a recent visit to the Royal Gardens at Kew and 

 Edinburgh, and described the plant houses of each. The 

 botanic gardens at Chelsea, Bonn, Zurich and Paris were then 

 passed in review The herbaria at the British Museum and 

 Oxford University were of special interest as containing the 

 collections of Catesby, Dillenius and Clayton. In connection 

 with Miss Dock's observations on forestry. Professor Macfar- 

 lane spoke of the remarkable forestry development initiated 

 fully a century ago by Duke John of Athol. The speaker 

 stated that no more successfijl financial venture had been 

 undertaken, than the planting of extensive forests of spruce 

 and larch, which now clothed the Athol estate. 



The Secretary exhibited a fossil sago palm, Cycadcoidea 

 Wiclandi, one of a rich collection of fossil sago palms obtained 

 in the Black Hills, and now in the Yale collection of the late 



