Feu. 1907] PROCEEDINGS S. I. ASS'X ARTS AND SCIE.XCES. 



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REGULAR MEETING. 

 February i6th, 1907. 



The meeting' was held at the residence of Mr. Howard R. Bayne. 

 New Brig-hton. 



President Howard R. Bayne in the chair. 



Thirty-two members were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of January 19th, 1907, were read and 

 approved. 



Theodore Castle Leng, West New Brighton, was elected to active 

 membership. 



]\Ir. William A. Shortt read a paper on the le(;al status of mir- 

 acles AXD metaphysics, but did not present it for publication. 



Mr. William T. Davis exhibited herbarium specimens of a number 

 of recognized hybrid oaks and a newly discovered one, and read the 

 following paper: 



AX ADDITION TO THE LIST OF HYBRID OAKS. 



Near Farming-dale, Monmouth Co., N. J., there is a piece of wood- 

 land containing many interesting- hybrid oaks. The willow oak. 

 Qiicrcus Phellos L., as might be supposed from its known tendency to 

 cross with other oaks, is one of the species prominent in the several 

 combinations observed. There are present a number of larg^e oaks of 

 this species, also many scrub oaks, Quercus nana (Marsh.) Sarg., and 

 fingered or Spanish oaks, Quercus digiiata (Marsh.) Sudw. 



Quercus nana x Phellos is recorded as an observed hybrid in Britton 

 and Brown's "Illustrated Flora," and there are several small trees 

 growing like Quercus nana that display the characters of both the willow 

 oak and the scrub oak. These trees bear acorns, and the same branch 

 often has leaves like those of the willow oak as well as many more 

 having; the characters of the scrub oak. The leaves have sharp bases in 

 almost every instance and are white-downy beneath. 



There are several other trees in the same woods, that while they 

 undoubtedly have the willow oak as one of their parents are not re- 

 lated to the scrub oak but more probably to Quercus digitata. The 

 leaves are white-downy beneath, three or four inches long:, and of varying 

 widths up to two inches. Some of them are like those of the willow 



