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Palla, received through the kindness of Mr. John T. Morris. 
Dr. Conard showed and commented on a recently pub- 
lished volume descriptive of the Appalachian Park area as 
outlined in the governmental report on the subject. Miss 
E. O. Abbot urged the members to a continued support of 
the claims of the park, and asked for subscriptions toward 
the cause of advancing legislation on the subject. 
November 21. Dr. Miller, President, in the chair. Dr. 
H. S. Conard spoke on “Dew and Rain Plants from the 
Olympic Mountains,” as observed and collected during his 
trip of the past summer. In thinking of the plant types 
encountered, he said that the excessive rainfall, the greatest 
in the United States, had to be taken into account. The 
greater part of the area that he studied was precipitous, 
being made up of deep valleys and rugged peaks. The tree 
branches were festooned at times with moss about twenty 
feet in length. The morphological peculiarities of Ranun- 
culus Greem, R. aquatilis and R. flammula var. reptans, 
Ligusticum Grayt and Lycopus Virginiana were described. 
A frequent feature was the formation of bulbils in plants of 
widely different alliances. 
Dr. J. W. Harshberger then gave “Observations on the 
Flora of the Higher Appalachians.”’ After describing the 
topography of the region, he referred to the characteristic 
Canadian flora of the mountain summits. At an altitude of 
500 feet, the rich, deciduous forest was replaced by a conifer- 
ous one of two species, the black spruce (Picea Mariana) and 
the balsam spruce (Abies Fraseri). The vegetation on 
Mount Mitchell, 6,711 feet high, was then described. The 
rapid disappearance, through extermination by plant col- 
lectors, of such species as Lilium Grayi, Rhododendron 
Vasey, etc., was noted with regret. 
Dr. Macfarlane then made “A Comparison of the Minute 
Structure of the Seedling and Adult Pitchers of Nepen- 
thes,”’ and illustrated by slides, also by a collection of seed- 
ling hybrids raised by Mr. Goucher at the University Botanic 
