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The following resolution offered by Professor Bessey was 

 adopted : 



Resolved. That the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S. notes with great 

 pleasure the liberality shown by the Canadian Government in providing the ad- 

 mirable new building and equipment for the Biological Department of the Univer- 

 sity of Toronto, and ventures to hope that at an early day the facilities here pro- 

 vided may be extcndedto include a suitable Botanic Garden, to which end the mem- 

 bers of the Botanical Club pledge such assistance as may lie in their power. 



The Club then adjourned to meet next year at Indianapolis, 

 Ind., on the third Wednesday of August, 1890, at 9 o'clock A.M. 



The following botanical papers were read in the Section of 



Biology, under the Vice-Presidency of Professor Geo. L. Goodale : 



On the position of the nectar glands in Echinops, by Thomas 

 Meehan. 



On the epigynous gland in Diervilla and the genesis oi Loni- 

 cera and Diervilla, by Thomas Meehan. 



Some physiological traits of the soh'd stemmed grasses and 

 especially of Indian Corn (maize), by F. L. Stewart 



On the genus Eleocharis In America, by N. L. Britton. 



On the tropical distribution of certain sedges, by N. L. Brit- 

 ton. 



Notes on seedlings of Elymus Virginicus, by W. J. Beal. 



Notes on Bird^s Eye Maple, by W. J. Beal. 



On the assumption of floral characters by axial growths in 

 Andromeda CatesbcBi, by Thomas Meehan, 



On the significance of dioecism as illustrated by Pycnanthe- 

 mtmi^ by Thomas Meehan. 



On the flora of New Jersey, by N. L, Britton. 



Reserve food substances in twigs, by Byron D. Halsted. 



Notes upon stamens of Solanaceae, by Byron D. Halsted. 



The new botanical laboratory of Barnard College, by N. L. 



Britt 



on. 



A bacterial disease of Carnations, by J. C Arthur. 

 Grasses of Roan Mountain, by Y. Lamson Scribner. 

 Revision of the United States species of Fuirena, by Fred. 

 V. Coville. 



A bacterial disease of Indian Corn, by T. J. Burrill 



An observation on Calaminiha Ntittallii, by David F. Day. 



