SHORTER NOTES 



The Name Melampodium. — In the Illustrated Flora, 3 : 405, 

 we read that McIaDipodiitni, Greek for black-foot, is without sig- 

 nificance. No doubt, however, it refers to the black achenes of 

 the common species, which might be thought to resemble little 

 black feet. These achenes (of the ray florets) are not nearly 

 filled by the ovule, constituting apparently moist chambers sim- 

 ilar in function to the bladder-like pods of some Astragalines. 



T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Boulder, Colorado. 



procr£dings of the club 



Wednesday, Fehruary 22, 1905 



This meeting was held at the N. Y. Botanical Garden, Profes- 

 sor L. M. Underwood in the chair and twenty-one members 

 present. 



A letter was read from Dr. MacDougal explaining his inability 

 to present his announced paper on " The Origin of Species by 

 Mutation or Saltation." 



A contribution to the knowledge of the local flora by Mrs. 

 Livingston and Miss Crane was communicated by Dr. W. A. 

 Murrill and read by Professor Underwood. The authors had 

 worked on the fungi, and had identified 195 species in 82 genera 

 and 17 families, all from Scarsdale, N. Y. The remainder of the 

 program consisted of remarks on the genus Lycopodiuvi, being 

 some of the results of the joint labors of Professor F. E. Lloyd 

 and Professor L. M. Underwood, which will soon be published in 

 the Ihillctin ; Professor Lloyd spoke from a morphological stand- 

 point and Professor Underwood from the systematic and general. 

 Professor Lloyd called attention to the diagnostic differences which 

 were brought out by the wet method used for the investigations, 

 differences not distinguisliable in dried material. The Lycopods 

 fall naturally into two physiological groups as shown by their 

 morphological characters, dependent upon habit — a radially 

 symmetrical type for those species which arc erect or jiendent, 



