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Dr. Claude E. O'Neal, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, 

 Ohio. 



The scientific program consisted of a paper by Dr. P. A. 

 Rydberg under title of "Rearrangement of the Genera of the 

 Tribe Galegeae of the Family Fabaceae or Papilionaceae," of 

 which an abstract follows: 



"The tribe Galegeae has been divided since Bentham's time, 

 into seven subtribes. Of these Psoralieae w^as some years ago 

 taken out as a tribe. It contains Psoralea, Amorpha, Parosela, 

 Petalostomon, and several related genera, characterized by the 

 foliage, which is glandular-punctate, and the pods, which are 

 one- or few-seeded, usually indehiscent but rarely breaking open 

 irregularly across the middle, never valvate. Another subtribe, 

 the Indigofereae, should also be removed as a tribe. The genera 

 belonging to it (of these only Indigofera is found in America) 

 have three characters seldom found elsewhere in the Fabaceae, 

 and never combined in any of the tribes of that family, viz. 

 Malpighian hairs on the foliage, appendaged connective in the 

 anthers, and lateral spurs on the keel-petals. 



"The other five subtribes should probably remain in the 

 Galegeae. Of these Brongniartieae , consisting the genera Brong- 

 niartia and Harpolyce, is rather natural and based on the erect, 

 stalked, and distinctly strophiolate seeds, a character rather 

 unusual in Fabaceae but very common in Caesalpiniaceae. 



"The other four subtribes are very artificial. The Tephrosieae 

 are distinguished from the rest by the terminal instead of axillary 

 inflorescence, but the inflorescence in the principal genus Cracca 

 L. {Tephrosia Pers.) is very variable. In about half the species 

 the racemes are strictly terminal, but many of these species have 

 additional axillary racemes in the upper leaf-axils. In others 

 a bud in the uppermost leaf-axil develops into a branch which 

 in turn produces a terminal raceme. This may be repeated 

 several times and the several racemes appear as if opposite to 

 the leaves. In a few species the racemes are borne obliquely, 

 neither opposite nor exactly in the axils, and it is hard to tell 

 if they are really terminal or axillary. The subtribe contains 

 five genera, four native and one introduced. Of these the last, 



