﻿Proceedings or the Club 165 



President Brown appointed a special committee to consider this 

 proposed amendment Dr. Britton, Dr. Underwood, Dr. Rusby 

 and the Secretary. 



Judge Brown announced the members of the Committee on 

 Program for 1898 as follows : Dr. Rusby, Mrs. Britton, Dr. C. C. 

 Curtis. 



The first paper, by Prof. Francis E. Lloyd, " On an Abnormal 

 Cone of Pseudotsuga mucronata" discussed the structure of a cone 

 recently observed on a leader of the Douglas Spruce. He figured 

 and described certain lateral expansions of the bracts, remarking 

 on their possible stipular nature. 



Remarks were made by Judge Brown, Dr. Britton, Dr. Rusby, 

 Mr. Howe and Dr. Underwood. 



The second paper, by Mr. E. O. Wooton, " Botanizing in New 

 Mexico during the Summer of 1897," gave an entertaining and 

 graphic narrative of this collecting trip made by Mr. and Mrs. E. 

 O. Wooton in Dona Ana and Lincoln Counties, N. M., in last 

 June, July and August. The route extended from the Rio Grande 



valley at Mesilla near the Mexican line, at an elevation of 3900 

 feet, to Sierra Blanca Peak, at 1 1000 feet. Special interest attached 

 to the collections made from the southern end of the White Sands, 

 a region about 30x6 miles or more in area, not before explored 

 by a botanist, except that a half dozen plants had been gathered 

 on its margin by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Mesilla. This vast 

 expanse of sand, seeming like a sea of white, is moving slowly to 

 the east. Even its lizards are white. Several new grasses were 

 obtained here, and other very peculiar species. Very extensive 

 collections were made in this trip, though with great hindrance 



from the summer rains. 



Discussion brought out the great dissimilarity existing between 

 neighboring floras in New Mexico. Mr. Wooton's collections 

 numbered about 600 species. Mr. A. A. Heller, collecting mean- 

 while about 250 miles northward, among 300 numbers had but 

 about 50 duplicates of these, and Dr. Rusby collecting some time 

 ago at a similar distance west, among 450 species duplicated 

 only about the same number. 



