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Sorghum Blight. — Preliviinary Report on. W. A. Keller- 

 man (Bull. No. 5, Experiment Station, Kan. Agric. Col.) 

 Starch in the Potato Tuber. — The Distribution of. E. S. Goff. 



(Agric. Sci., iii., 55-58.) 

 Staten Island.— New and Noteworthy Additions to the Flora of. 



Arthur Hollick. (Proc. Nat. Sci. Assn. of S. 1., Mch. 14, 



1889.) 

 Sweet Cassava. H. W. Wiley. (Bot. Gaz. xiv., 71-76.) 

 Tree Groivth as Determined by Loeation. J. T. Rothrock. (Forest 



Leaves, ii. 18, 19 ; illustrated.) 



Excellent pictures are given of Qiiercus alba, showing the 



types found in open ground and in woodland. 



Tournefortia cordifolia. (Garden, xxxv. 223,224; illustrated.) 



Viburmim Optilus, L.— C. F. Millspaugh, M.D. (The Homce- 



pathic Recorder, iv. 2, 55.) 



An account of its uses in homoepathic practice; with plate. 

 Weeds.— Our Worst. Byron D. Halsted. (But. Gaz. xiv. 69- 



70- 



This is a preliminary report upon the facts gathered from 

 the answers received in reply to a request for a list of the twenty 

 worst weeds in any locality. From twenty-five such lists the 

 author finds the relative abundance and injuriousness of thirty- 



four weeds. 



-Joh 



podiujn album and Rimtex crispus lead in point of numbers. In 

 regard to injuriousness Cnicus arvensis, Agropyrum repcns, 



XantJiiiim 



rfolia 



sixth, Chenopoditim album twelfth, Portulaca oleracea fourteenth 



and Rumex crispus fifteenth on the list. 



Willows—Notes on North American,— F I L M. S. Bebb. (Bot. 



Gaz. XIV, 49-54, PI. IX). 

 A new variety, 



Macon 



ured and described! Interesting criticisms and notes on 5. Rich- 

 ardsonii and 5. Barrattiana are also given. 



Proceedings of the Club. 



The regular meeting was held Tuesday evening. April 9, 

 1889, the President in the chair and fifteen persons present. 



