to the coppices. Seventeen species of sedges, none new, are to 

 be added to tlie published flora of the islands. The palms are 

 abundant and interesting^, five species being reported. ICight ov 

 ten species of bromcliads, about tucnt)'-five orchids, and four or 

 five figs were reported. Among the Nyctaginaceae there are two 

 trees heretofore referred to risoiiia but evidently not properly 

 referable to that genus. 



It was noted that most of the trees of the islands do not reach 

 as great a height as they do in the Florida " hammocks." A 

 water-lily, in habit resembling a small Nchinibo, and heretofore 

 referred to Castalia ainpla is of special interest. The coastal 

 thickets furnished a beautiful species of PartJioiocisstis with scarlet 

 pedicels. Among the abundant types were many Malvaceae, 

 Celastraceae, Euphorbiaceae, herbaceous Papilionaceae and 

 shrubby and arborescent Mimosaceae. Numerous photographs 

 and specimens were exhibited. 



The second paper was by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who spoke 

 on "The Algae of some European Herbaria." This was a gen- 

 eral account of a trip undertaken during the past summer for the 

 purpose of seeing and studying the historical types of American 

 marine algae preserved in certain foreign herbaria. The first 

 stop was at Trinity College, Dublin, where are found the collec- 

 tions of W. H. Harvey, author of the Nereis Boreali-Americana, 

 and of several shorter papers on American seaweeds. In Eng- 

 land, the three principal herbaria visited were those of the British 

 Museum, the Linnaean herbarium, and that of the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens at Kew. 



In France, a few days were spent at Caen, in the department 

 of Calvados, where are preserved the collections of several stu- 

 dents of seaweeds, such as Roussel, Lamouroux. Chauvin, and 

 Lenormand. Of these, the herbarium of Lamouroux is of chief 

 interest, containing the materials from which thirty or more 

 American species were first described. 



At Paris, the collections of Montague, of De la Pj-laie, and of 

 Decaisne, which are in possession of the Museum d'Histoire Nat- 

 urelle, were those chiefly studied, though a collection of Guade- 

 loupe algae, issued b\' Maze and Schramm, was also examined. 



