DECEMBER 15, 1899. ] 
on August Ist. The party consisted of Profes- 
sor C. L. Bristol, Messrs. F. W. Carpenter, C. 
EB. Brush, Jr., F. Erdwurm, of the graduating 
class ; Messrs. Hill, Magnus and Wooley of the 
present Junior class, and Mr. A. Benton Muller. 
The reconnaissance work of the two former 
years was continued from White’s Island in 
Hamilton Harbor as headquarters. The build- 
ings on the islands afforded far better facilities 
for laboratory work than was obtained on the 
other trips, and also brought the party nearer 
to the south shore and the Great Sound. An 
important feature was a series of pools con- 
structed above tide level and supplied with 
plenty of running sea-water, in which a day’s 
“eatch’ could be examined alive at leisure. 
A naphtha launch and a small yacht-gave the 
necessary facilities for collecting. The principal 
work was reconnaissance and many new forms 
were found among the Crustacea, Echinoderms, 
Coelenterates, Tunicates, Mollusca. Perhaps the 
most important single trip was that made to 
North Rock, an isolated fragment of the old 
atoll-shaped reef, about nine miles out at sea. 
At dead low tide a small area is laid bare but 
almost awash, and attainable only in the 
smoothest of water. Here the life of the ocean 
swarms and offers rare opportunities for study. 
As in the former years a large number of the 
showy fishes that abound in the coral reefs were 
brought home alive for the New York Aquarium. 
Notwithstanding the sudden fall of temperature 
at the northern edge of the Gulf Stream the 
system of regulation of the temperature is now 
so perfect that less than one per cent. die on 
the voyage. A pair of green parrot fishes of 
large size, and a large green muray about eight 
feet long were the most conspicuous among 
them, and are living and in good health at this 
date. FRANCIS BE. Luoyp, 
Secretary. 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB, OCT. 25, 1899. 
THE scientific program opened with a paper 
by Dr. D. T. MacDougal on ‘The Mycorrhiza 
of Cephalanthera,’ describing the general char- 
acters of this Pacific coast plant, with special 
reference to its symbiotism, and with exhibition 
ofspecimensin alcohol. Dr. MacDougal’s speci- 
mens form probably the most complete examples 
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of its root system ever procured, the plant grow- 
ing among matted hemlock roots and very diffi- 
cult to get at. Discussion by Dr. Britton of the 
taxonomic relations of Cephalanthera followed. 
The second subject of the evening was that 
of Ferns, ‘Notes on Ferns’ were presented by 
Mrs. Britton, with specimens and lantern views. 
Dr. Underwood exhibited some very large ex- 
amples of Botrychiwm lanceolatum from the foot 
of Mt. Rainier, reaching about 1 foot high, in- 
cluding roots, and with frond nearly 3 inches 
in length. 
Mr. W. N. Clute spoke of finding Dryopteris 
Goldieana at Bedford Park, and of continued 
discoveries of Dryopteris simulata, usually in 
company with Woodwardia areolata. 
Mrs. Britton spoke of the association of 
Dryopteris simulata on the Pocono with Rhodo- 
dendron maximum, in very different surround- 
ings ; and called attention to its distinctly blue- 
green coloring. 
Mr. Clute reported finding last July a new 
station for Schizea pusilla at Allen’s Bridge, 
N. J., on the east branch of the Wading river, 
in quantity, observed last July. The fertile 
fronds of the last year were then still remaining 
onthe plant. Sterile fronds were coiling about 
neighboring stems as if with a trace of the 
climbing habit of its relative, Lygodium. This 
coiling tendency, added Dr. Britton, has occa- 
sioned the name Curly-grass, which was found 
in use in New Jersey for the Schizea. 
The Secretary referred to the successful trans- 
planting of Schizea into a locality near Lake- 
wood, N. J., by Miss R. W. Farrington. 
Miscellaneous notes constituted the remainder 
of the program. The Secretary made some re- 
marks upon singularities in the distribution of 
Aster Schreberi, a species described by Nees in 
1818, from a single plant, and afterward omitted 
by botanists, until the publication of the Illus- 
trated Flora. The abundance of this species, 
which he finds characteristic of the Schoharie 
drainage-basin of the Catskills, contrasts 
strangely with its absence from other parts of 
that region. 
Judge Brown reported finding Solidago odora 
on high ground near Sam’s Point, late in the 
season, many scattered plants blooming at 
about 2,000° altitude. 
