408 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
REDERICK V. COVILLE, 
. L. Britton, 
WALTER T. SWINGLE, _ 
mmiutee. 
The report was briefly discussed, and adopted. 
A resolution requesting a grant of $100.00 for the peeps 
of a botanical table at the Marine Biological Laboratory : 
Woods Hole, was presented and unanimously endorsed by 
the section for transmission to the council. 
Abstract of papers read before Section G of the A. A.A. S. 
The address of the vice-president of the Section, Dr. J. % 
Arthur, on ‘The Development of Vegetable Physiology, 4 
was delivered on Thursday, August 29th, before a large an 
appreciative audience. The address is given in full in another 
part of this number. ; : 
Papers were read before the section on the following Fri- 
day and Monday as follows: 
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30TH. 
RUSSELL, H. L.: 4 leaf-rot of cabbage.—Mr. Russell oo 
scribed a bacterial disease attacking the petioles of bz. 
leaves near the base and manifesting itself by a wilting Pa 
the leaf. It spreads into the parenchyma until it reaches th 
fibro-vascular bundles, in whose alkaline tissues the bacteria 
®For a somewhat More det 
‘ ailed discussion of these definitions see Contribu- 
tions from the U, Ss. National Herbarium 4: 10, 11, 1893. 
