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niis^ Gray. Indeed there is evidence throughout of a strong 

 tendency towards maintaining the original names, which we are 

 very glad to see^ and can only wish that it had been carried 

 somewhat further, and a fixed point been reached for a few names 

 which must yet be modified. The only reprehensible thing of 

 note in the work is the citation of Bentham and Hooker as au- 

 thority for six names and several additional synonyms which 

 they never estabhshed. This is not an original sin with Messrs. 

 Coulter and Rose, but it is none the less misleading, and inas- 

 much as it is not the practice even at Kew, where the Genera 

 Plantarum was written, and we have it from the surviving author 

 that it was never intended, there seems small ground for its con- 



tinuance. 



N. L. B. 



?/ Netvfoundla 



rador — A Summary Accowit of the, — Rev. Arthur C. Wag 

 home. (Pamph., pp ii, St John's, New Foundland, 1888] 



Proceedings of the Ciub. 



The regular meeting was held Tuesday evening, March i2th, 

 the President in the chair and thirty- six persons present. 



Dr. O. R. Willis read the announced paper " On the Pronun- 

 ciation of Botanical Names." He spoke of the great importance 

 of a standard in pronunciation for the two thousand words used 

 in botany exclusive of the names of plants, and suggested that 

 such a standard should be established. 



Dr. Britton exhibited a collection of plants made in Iceland 

 by Professor and Mrs. C. Sprague Smith, among them Hierachim 

 aurantiacum, not reported in lists of the Iceland flora and very 

 likely of recent introduction from Scandinavia. 



Mr. J. W. Martens, Jr., showed specimens of the following 

 plants found in the vicinity of Lake Mohegan, Westchester County, 

 New York, and new to the flora of that county : Viola pabnata, 

 L.; Nemopanthes Canadensis (Michx.), D. C; Rnbus trifoms, 

 Richards.; Aster cordifolius, L., van Iccvigatns, Porter; Senecio 

 aureus, L., var. obovatus (Muhl.), T. and G.; Lactuca Floridana 

 (L.), Gaertn.; Limnanthemum lanaiosum (Vent.), Griseb.; Men- 

 tha sativa, L.; Amaranthiis cJdorostachys, Willd.; Quercus ilici- 



