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plant is erect, taller than V. stricta, with larger and thinner leaves, with 
more elongated and slender paniculate spikes, with smaller and paler blue 
flowers, bearing very few seeds. 
V. stricto-bracteosa is a prostrate plant with incised, three lobed or almost 
— leaves much larger than in V. bracteosa, of a firm tex ure, and 
In some hybrids, however, as Prof. Caspary has observed in Cytisus 
Adami, = ovula also degenerate so that propagation by seed becomes 
ible. : 
Dr. Heitzig presented two cases of coleopterous insects. 4 
Dr. Pope presented a branch of Elder showing an ees. 
ingly grotesque fungous degeneration, produced by an Aci 
tum. 
Mr. Hermann Ehrenberg, Arizona, was elected a Corres- 
ponding Member, and Evans Casselberry, Esq-, an Associate 
ember, 
September 19, 1859. 
Vice-President Dr. C. A, Porx in the chair. 
Eight members present. | 7a 
Donations to the Library were presented as follows: Bu : 
tin mensuel de la Soc. Imp. zoologique d’ Acclimatation, 
. 
the Society ; Jour. Elliott Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. I, part i 
4to, Charlestown, 1859, from the Society ; Tth Exhibition 
the U.S. Agricul. Soc., Chicago, 1859. Conti 
resentations of specimens were made as follows: cai 
pede, Tarantula, Moccasin Snake, and an Indian tobace 
