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58 rochester academy of science. [ja"- 1 1, 



Report of the Botanical Section. 



The report of the Botanical Section was read by the Recorder, 

 Mrs. J. H. McGuire, and is summarized as follows: 



The ofificers of the Section are : Miss Florence Beckwith, 

 Chairman ; Miss Kate R. Andrews, Vice-Chairman ; Mrs. J. H. 

 McGuire, Recorder. 



Twenty-six meetings were held during the year at the residence 

 of Mr. W^illiam Streeter, with an average attendance of ten persons. 



The Section has continued the work of identifying and classifying 

 plants found in this vicinity, noting their habitat and reporting new 

 stations as discovered, in order to preserve a record of the flora of 

 Monroe County and adjacent territory as exact and complete as may 

 be, and which shall prove valuable and reliable to botanists for 

 reference. 



The following new plants were reported during the year : 



Selaginella apus Spring ; Arctmni lappa L. var. majus Gray ; 

 Scabiosa aiistralis Wulf. ; Che)iopodium fKtiduni Lamarck ; Aster 

 nova belgii L. var. Elodes Gray ; Pncnus niahaleb L. ; Trillhnn 

 cernuuni L. (Orleans county) ; Matricaria inodora L. ; Arnoseris 

 minima Dumort. 



New stations were reported for the following rare and infrequent 

 plants : 



Euonym^is americanus L. var. obovatus Torrey & Gray ; Asplen- 

 iiim trichomanes L. ; Trillium cermium L ; Arenaria 7nichatixii Gray 

 (A. stricta Michx. ) ; Arenaria lateriflora L. ; Carex limosa L. ; C. 

 interior Bailey ; C. careyana Torr. ; Hypericum ascyron L. ; Cacalia 

 suaveolens L. ; Popidus balsamifera var, candicans Gray ; Polanisia 

 graveolens Raf. ; Sonchus arvensis L. ; Rleocharis olivacea Torr. ; 

 Artemisia bietinis Willd. ; Epipactis hellcborine Gray's Man. 



During the year much attention was paid to the study of fungi 

 and lichens. Many specimens were exhibited under the microscope 

 by Mr. Streeter, Mr. Baxter and Mr. and Mrs. Perkins. 



A double-flowered form of Rayiunculus rcpcns L. was collected at 

 the eastern wide waters of the Erie canal. Among papers read was 

 one by Mr. M. S. Baxter on Lemna^ in which he mentioned that Ur. 

 C. M. Booth was the first botanist in America to find Lem7ia trisulca 

 L. in flower. 



