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Mr. Harger read an interesting paper on " November Wild 

 Flowers," followed at the afternoon session, by Mr. M. L. Fer- 

 nald, " On the Geographic Distribution of certain New England 

 Plants," which was carefully illustrated by numerous herbarium 

 specimens, and a paper by Mr. W. E. Britton, " Notes on the Flora 

 of the North Haven Plains," which was aided by photographs. 



A work undertaken by this Society is the preparation of an ac- 

 curate list of the flora of the State, to accomplish which, in part, 

 a committee on phaenogamous and vascular-cryptogamous 

 plants was appointed. Another committee, for work upon the 

 lower cryptogams, will be announced later. 



The former committee consists of Dr. C. B. Graves, New Lon- 

 don ; Dr. E. H. Eames, Bridgeport ; Mr. C. H. Bissell, South- 

 ington ; Mr. L. Andrews, Southington ; Mr. E. B. Harger, Ox- 

 ford ; and Mr. J. N. Bishop, Plainville. 



The preparation of the flora would be made less difficult, if all 

 who can supply specimens and information of value, will assist 

 the committee as much as possible. To this end any member 

 may be addressed, with the assurance that full credit will be 

 given for all available material, together with the thanks of the 

 Society, and of all who are interested. 



E. H. Eames, M.D., 



Secretary. 

 Bridgeport, Connecticut, 

 February I, 1903. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Volume 2 of the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 consisting of a monograph on " The Influence of Light and 

 Darkness upon Growth and Development " by Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal, was issued on January 20. It is expected that a review 

 notice of this work will appear in the March number of Torreya. 



" Additional Observations on the Strand Flora of New Jersey," 

 is the title of a paper by Dr. John W. Harshberger, of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, issued in December from the Proceedings 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. This is 

 supplementary to the author's " Ecological Study of the New 

 Jersey Strand Flora," published in 1900. 



