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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



March 25, 1908 



The meeting was held at the museum of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, with Dr. John Hendley Barnhart in the chair. 

 The minutes of the meetings of February 26 and March 10 

 were read and approved. A special committee of the Club 

 appointed on February 1 1 reported as follows : 



At a regular meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club held at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, February 11, 1908, a 

 committee was appointed to draft resolutions concerning the 

 death of the late Morris K. Jesup. 



Be it therefore resolved, that the Secretary be instructed to 

 enter in the proceedings of the Torrey Botanical Club, and trans- 

 mit to the Board of Trustees of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, this record of our sincere regret at the loss of one who 

 always manifested such a broad and deep interest in all matters 

 pertaining to natural science. 



The report of this special committee was unanimously accepted 

 and adopted. The scientific program was then taken up and 

 two papers were read, of which the following abstracts have been 

 furnished by the authors : 



" Botanical Experiences in western South Carolina," by Mr. 

 Homer D. House. 



The richness of the flora of the southern Alleghany mountains 

 was commented upon, special attention being directed to the 

 beauty of the mountains in early June, when several species of 

 Azalea and Rhododendron are in bloom. Two trips into the 

 mountains were described, one to Jocassee Valley for Shenuoodia 

 (commonly known as Shortid) and to Tomassee Knob and 

 Tomassee Falls. At the latter place several northern plants 

 were collected, among others Viola canadensis, Trillium grandi- 

 flonim, Filix bidbifera, and Dryopteris Goldiana. The second 

 trip was to Rabun Bald in Georgia during early June. The top 

 of this mountain is covered with Rhododendron catawbiense , 

 which was at that time in full bloom. In the thickets around the 

 coves on the eastern slope of the mountain a new species of 



