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thousand seven hundred and sixty, that then the town or district in which such bushes 

 are, shall pay a fine of two shillings for every bush standing or growing in such high- 

 way, to be recovered by Bill, Plaint, Information, or the Presentment of a Grand 

 Jury, and to be paid, one half to the informer, and the other half to the Treasurer of 

 the County in which such bushes grew, for the use of the County. 

 Be it fitrther enacted, 



That if any Barberry Bushes stand or grow in any stone wall, or other fence, either 

 fronting the highway, or dividing between one propriety and another, that then an 

 action may be brought, as aforesaid, against the owner of said fence, or the person 

 occupying the land to which such fence belongs ; and if the fence in which such bushes 

 grow is a divisional fence between the lands of one person or community and another, 

 and such fence hath not been divided, by which means the particular share of each 

 person or community is not known, then an action may be brought, as aforesaid, 

 against either of the owners or occupants of said land. 

 Be it further enacted. 



That where the occupant of any land shall eradicate and destroy any Barberry 

 Bushes growing therein, or in any of the fences belonging to the same (which such 

 occupant is hereby authorized to do, and every action to be brought against him for 

 so doing shall be utterly barred), or shall be obliged, pursuant to this act, to pay for 

 pulling them up or cutting them down, that then the owner or proprietor of such land 

 shall pay the said occupant the full value of his labour and cost in destroying them 

 himself, or what he is obliged to pay to others as aforesaid ; and if the said owner or 

 owners shall refuse so to do, then it shall be lawful for said occupant or occupants to 

 withold so much of the rents or income of said land as shall be sufficient to pay or 

 reimburse his cost and charge arising as aforesaid. 



This act to continue and be in force until the tenth day of June, one thousand 

 seven hundred and sixty-four. 



[An Early Massachusetts Statute for the Prevention of Wheat-Rust. Anno Regni 

 Regis Georgii II, Vicesimo Octavo, Chap. X. (published January 13, 1755).] 



Dr. Britton exhibited a specimen from Jamaica, W. I., illus- 

 trating an economic use of cat-tails. This was a "bed," made 

 from the split stems of TypJia doiningensis . 



The following scientific program was presented : 



"A new Ub'iailaria from Long Island," by John Hendley 

 Barnhart. 



The new species was described and specimens of it exhibited. 

 The paper and description will be published in full in the Bulletin 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club, for December, 1907. 



" Some anomalous Leaf-Forms," by C. Stuart Gager. 



Specimens were shown illustrating the formation of ascidia in 

 the white (?) clover and in a leaflet of the licorice {Glycyrrliiza) ; 

 variations in the branching of the leaf-blade of a species of Frax- 

 imis ; transitions in Aralia raceuiosa, from a once-compound to a 



