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in Siberia, China and Japan, but that has still smaller flowers, 
with acute sepals and petals, lobes of the leaves acute, and, 
according to Aiton, sunken veins in both surfaces of the 
leaf. 
___ This pretty little addition to our water-lilies was collected 
by Mr. John B. Leiberg, June, 1887, in a small pond in 
northern Idaho, near Granite station, on the North Pacific . 
Railway ; « very local,’ as the collector writes, and the first 
of the genus discovered so far west. 
Ma Ashland, Mass. 
BRIEFER ARTICLES. 
A meeting of the German botanical society.--Among the numerous. 
Scientific societies of Germany the Deutsche botanische Gesellschaft holds 
_ 4 prominent place, and as the German botanical society par excellence it 
very properly has its headquarters in Berlin, where there are probably 
more botanists of reputation than any other city in the world can show. 
The meetings are held in the botanical institute, which at present oc- 
cupies a building immediately back of the university. On entering the 
lecture-room in which the members are assembled, we find it a most un- 
pretending room, furnished in the most primitive style with clumsy 
wooden benches and desks that have evidently seen many generations of 
students, as is plain from the innumerable inscriptions and devices cut or _ 
Scrawled upon them, for in this particular students are much the same on — 
both sides of the Atlantic. At the front of the room, on a low platform, 
Were chairs and desks for the chairman and secretary. 
,., rhe meeting was called to order at about half-past six by Professor 
Schwendener, He is a man of about sixty, but does not look so old, being 
hoticeably vigorous in appearance. He is of medium height, with a 
Scholarly face framed in abundant, rather short iron-gray hair and beard. 
€ first thing on the programme was the election of members, and 
a 
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_,_ the greater part of the meeting was occupied in the reading 
Stracts of 
