1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 231 
t+ Deauchamp called the attention of the club to living 
Specimens of Erythrea Centaurium which he had brought 
Me the use of the members {rom the original station at 
Oswego, N.Y. He then read a paper upon the Onondaga 
(Indian) Names for plants, in which he enumerated ae 
wes of the chief plants known to these Indians, and gave _ Be 
their Signification. : tw inal 
r.sMeehan spoke on the tendency to irregularity in the 
tubifloral Composite. In Silphium perfoliatum and many 
ter Composite two of the five lobes of the corolla are 
approximated to form an ** upper lip,” and three wy fades 
wwer lip,” The ynoecium is also frequent 
this regul 
the lower lip even when to do so it has to oppose the action 
of gravitation. . : 
ere oT Sturtevant exhibited a large series is wild Q 
Color drawings to illustrate the variability of the fruit Winks 2 
and cultivated species of Capsicum, a genus which ener - 
Contains but a few species, instead of the many whic | 
fen described. 
T. B. E. Fernow endeavored to answer the 
pies 
