Pennsylvania for Sessions 1899-1900. XXVil 
Miss E. O. Abbot spoke in favor of the proposed National 
Park in the Appalachian Mountains of the Carolinas, and pre- 
sented for inspection and distribution, literature bearing on the 
subject. After an expression of opinion, the chair appointed a 
committee of three to report at next meeting of the society. 
Dr. Macfarlane exhibited from the University greenhouses 
numerous parent and hybrid Cypripediums. The relative 
influence of the two parents in the upbuilding of each 
hybrid was pointed out and the results of reverse crossing were 
compared. 
A banana shoot from the greenhouses was exhibited, the 
upper portion of which had been cut down at two in the 
afternoon, the lower part had grown one and a quarter 
inches, in a central leaf, up to 9.30 in the evening. 
February 2. The President in the chair. Dr. Rodney H. 
True lectured on “ Plants in Relation to Poisons,” and his 
striking results have since been published. A cordial vote of 
thanks was given to Dr. True for his kindness in coming to 
speak before the society. 
The Appalachian Park Committee reported as follows: 
“ Resolved, That the Botanical Society of Pennsylvania 
extends its hearty sympathy to the Appalachian National 
Park Association, in the beneficent work it has undertaken, 
and that it appropriate from its treasury six dollars for three 
fees for membership in that association, one for the Society, 
one for its Acting President and one for its Recording Secre- 
tary. 
[Signed] “ ELizABETH QO. ABBOT, 
“ Henry KRAEMER, 
“HELEN R. MARSHALL.” 
An interesting interchange of views was given, on the 
chairman declaring the report open for discussion. It was 
finally resolved “that the committee’s report be received with 
