208 ERYTHEA. 
ASTRAGALUS DIVERSIFOLIUS (Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vi. 230) 
has precedence over A. junceus of the same author, and must 
be taken up instead of the latter, if, as it is now conceded, 
there is but one species represented by the two names and — 
descriptions. In any case the name A. junceus must fall, 
on account of the more than thirty years earlier A, junceus 
of Ledebour (Spreng. Syst. iii. 297). 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE MADISON BOTANICAL 
CONGRESS.! 
During the summer of 1893, a committee of American 
botantsts was appointed by C. HE. Bessey, Chairman of the 
Section of Botany, American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, and W. P. Wilson, President of the 
Botanical Club, associated with the same institution, to 
arrange for a Botanical Congress, to be held at Madison, 
Wisconsin. The call of this committee for such a congress 
will be found in the July number of the Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club. 
The Congress met in Science Hall, University of Wis- 
consin, at 10 a. m., Wednesday morning, August 23, 1893, 
and was called to order by J. ©. Arthur, Chairman of the 
Organizing Committee. 
The following resolution, offered by C. E. Bessey, was 
unanimously adopted: - 
ation of gan 
international character of the assemblage has not been 
realized, the name of this body be the ‘t Madison Botanical 
Congress.” 
appointed to nominate officers for the Congress. 
_ This and the succeeding article are essentially reprints of articles 
in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for September, proofs of 
which were kindly sent in advance for our use by Dr. Britton 
