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lected during the day, among which were the Ajriof^ tuhe- 

 rosa, or Ground Xut, one of the LegumiaosoR in the pulse 

 or pea family, which is very profuse in its flowers at this 

 season of the year, — a hardy, herbaceous climber, suitable 

 for covering screens and unsightly fences, easily propa- 

 gated by its tubers. Then the speaker called attention to 

 the Indian Pipe, or Monotrojm unifiora and Monotropa hy- 

 poptis, and showed its relationship to the bhiebeny bush 

 which is in the same family with it. Among the more 

 interesting plants, he exhibited the Rhexia Virginica or 

 Meadow Beauty. This plant is easily propagated from 

 its tubers, and would make a decided ornament in the 

 garden. Another interesting plant was the Corallorhiza 

 multijiora, coral-root, one of the Orchidacece^ the root of 

 which resembles a bunch of pink coral. 



The next speaker, Mr. John Robinson of the Peabody 

 Academy of Science, read a carefully elaborated paper, 

 entitled, "The native trees and tree cultivation in Essex 

 County," premising the remark that the unspeakable charm 

 of our old New England village as Tvell as of our mod- 

 ern seaside resort is very largely traceable to the variety 

 and abundance of shade-trees. At the request of Mr. 

 Robinson, no abstract of this valuable paper is inserted 

 here, the material of it being printed in full in the Twenty- 

 Eighth and Thirtj'^-Fifth Annual Reports of the Massachu- 

 setts State Board of Agi'iculture, before which parts of it 

 were read in December, 1880, and in December, 1887 ; also 

 in the Report of the Committee on Forest Trees of the 

 Essex Agricultural Society for 1884, printed in that year's 

 Proceedings of the Society. 



Mr. Frederick A. Ober next read extracts from an elab- 

 orate paper on the "Flora and Fauna of Beverly," contrib- 

 uted by him to Lewis & Co.'s History of Essex County, 

 Vol. I, pp. 675-9, where it may be found in full. He illus- 



