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Garden. The speaker showed that the first leaf to appear 

 after the cotyledons was pitchered, as were the succeeding 

 ones typically. These showed only a few (five to eight) 

 marginal attractive glands and fifteen to twenty internal 

 digestive glands. Later, on older leaves, the honey glands 

 of the lid, and still later the alluring glands of the leaf por- 

 tions external to the pitcher appeared. This relation in 

 seedlings resembled exactly the relative appearance and dis- 

 tribution of glands in passing from the more primitive types 

 such as A^. ampullaria to the most complex, such as A'^. san- 

 guinea and Khasiana. He then described a collection of 

 plants just received from Mr. Lindsay, of Edinburgh, Scot- 

 land, including a valuable lot of New Zealand veronicas, and 

 hybrid with parent saxifrages. 



December 5. Dr. Miller, President, in the chair. Miss 

 Marion Mackenzie presented her annual phytophenological 

 report. In this she stated that better and more detailed work 

 had been done than in any previous year. In all of the sheets 

 the early flowering of Symplocarpus, Claytoma and other 

 spring flowering species was emphasized, the average time 

 acceleration being about eight days. The blooms lasted 

 also far into the season, owing to the somewhat cool weather. 

 The cold, wet, comparatively sunless summer had caused a 

 retarding effect on all plants. A striking feature of autumn 

 was the early defoliation of several species of tree, notably 

 the Carolina poplar and white or silver maple. 



Mrs. Bartol next gave "A Traveler's Notes on the Flora 

 of Jamaica," with numerous lantern illustrations. The first 

 view and impressions of the coast line of the island, the 

 vegetation of the areas around the hotel and the fruits 

 brought into the market were discussed. The growth and 

 collection of the cacao fruit and the coco-nut were next 

 treated of, while the luxuriant masses of air plants, includ- 

 ing orchids and tillandsias, encountered in drives through 

 the interior, afforded opportunity for collection and subse- 

 quent delineation. One of the air plants with large red 



