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Station. Amongst the unlocked for plants was Oxybaphus nyc- 

 /^^/;/^?/^, which is described as growing so rank in one locality 

 in a corn field, that ^* one could hardly make his way through the 

 field because of it." Hordeum jubatitm is said to be *' entirely 



too common along the road-sides and in old meadows. 



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Proceedings cf the Club. 



The regular monthly meeting Avas held Tuesday evening, 



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The Field Committee reported on the several Field Days held 

 since the last meeting, especially on those at Prince's Bay, Staten 

 Island, and Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania, which were largely 

 attended. The latter was participated in by a delegation from 

 the Botanical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia and other botanists, and an extremely enjoyable 

 and interesting trip experienced under the guidance of Professor 

 Porter. Among the best discoveries were the finding by Mrs. 



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near Naomi 



Pines; of a single bush of Lonicera ccerulca by Mr. John K- 

 Small, and of Poa debilis by Professor Porter — all new to the flora 

 of Pennsylvania ; of Deyetixia Portcri by Dr. Britton, new to the 

 one hundred mile circle. Some of the party stopped over for a 

 day at the Delaware Water Gap on the way home and ascended 

 Mt. Minsi on the Pennsylvania side of the river, and were fortu- 

 nate enough to discover there in an almost inaccessible place the 

 rare Asplentum montamim, formerly obtained from the cliffs or 

 Mt. Tammany on the New Jersey side by Rev. S. W. Knipe. 



A paper by Mr. Redfield on " Corema in New Jersey," was 

 read by the Secretary. 



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Jackson, Queens County, N. Y., and it was remarked that this 

 common European weed is gradually becoming more abundant 

 with us. 



Mr. I. C Martindale's paper on ''Alg^ of the New Jersey 

 and Staten Island coasts " accepted for publication as No. 2 of 

 the Memoirs, was read by title. 



The Club adjourned until the second Tuesday in September. 



