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looking ragged patches of eel grass were full of blossoms which 

 shed their pollen immediately they were touched, the pollen 

 mass being long, slender and sticky. He also spoke about col- 

 lecting samples of peat from twenty-four different ponds in the 

 Elizabeth Islands off Cape Cod. 



Mrs. G. P. Anderson reported finding a rare form of Cetraria 

 at Lake Mohawk near Delaware Water Gap, also a very rich 

 find of lichens on the eastern shore of Maryland. She also 

 remarked upon Scarlet Salvia as grown in a nursery in Northern 

 New Jersey with flowers varying from purple to pink and 

 white in coloring and suggested that an inheritance study of 

 these would yield some interesting material. 



Mr. Raymond H. Torrey spoke in favor of more collections 

 of lichens for study of their local distribution and the need of a 

 popular hand book for field students. 



Dr. S. Trelease suggested that he would have use in his ex- 

 perimental work for a fast growing lichen. For this purpose Mrs. 

 Anderson recalls Cladonia turgida which grows one quarter of 

 an inch a year. 



Dr. E. W. Sinnott exhibited a surprising collection of small 

 gourds and pumpkins varying in color and form from yellow to 

 green and gold. He said that all of these gourds and pumpkins 

 are all one species and will readily intercross. 



Meeting adjourned at 9 . 55 p.m. 



Forman T. McLean, Secretary 



Meeting of October 17, 1934 



The Meeting was called to order at The New York Botanical 

 Garden at 3:30 p.m. by President Hazen. There were twenty 

 members present. 



The minutes of the meeting of October 2nd were read and 

 approved. 



Mr. J. Harry Logan, 95 Sagamore Road, Bronxville, N. Y., 

 was unanimously elected to membership in the club. 



Mr. Otto Degener gave an interesting talk on "Collecting 

 Experiences in Hawaii." 



In 1929, as Naturalist of the Hawaiian National Park, Mr. 

 Degener wrote the "Plants of. Hawaii National Park, with 

 Descriptions of Ancient Hawaiian Customs and an Introduc- 

 tion to the Geologic History of the Islands." 



