230 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ September, 
10. Irregular flowers adapted to insects which do not 
light have changed visitors. 
11. Small, closely-crowded flowers do not tend to be- 
come zygomorphous. 
12. Small, closely-crowded, irregular flowers are liable 
to lose their zygomorphous characters, unless the stamens 
and styles are protected by gale, carina, etc. 
Carlinville, Til. 
Proceedings of the Botanical Club. 
Wepnespay, Avucust 15, 1888.—The Botanical Club 
of the A. A. A. S. was called to order by the President, 
David F. Day, who spoke a few words of welcome and good 
some questions were raised whether it was not irritability 
rather than elasticity that caused the behavior.! He now 
adds that the filaments of a large number of Composite are 
elastic (Heliopsis exhibits it most clearly), and describes an 
observation upon Helianthus doronicoides which shows t at 
it is not irritability. 
Mr. W. H. Seaman followed with some remarks upo? 
the variation of Azalea nudiflora in respect to odor and vis- 
cidity. _This species, when growing in high latitudes and on 
mountains, is quite viscid and odorous, while in lower groun 
and more southerly stations it is smoother and nearly odor- 
ess. 
Mrs. H. L. T. Walcott corroborated the observation 1? 
eit to the species about Medford, Mass. 
less fertile, the flowers are much larger and more looney 
spicate and the internodes longer. Mr. Meehan thought 
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1$ee this journal, vol. IX, p. 158, 
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