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Mrs. N. L. Britton presented " Notes on Macoun's recent Col- 

 lection of Canadian Mosses," speaking of collections made by 

 Professor J. Macoun during the past summer in the lower penin- 

 sula of Ontario between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Special 

 mention was made of Scligcria campylopoda Kindb. previously 

 known only from Owen Sound, but now collected at Niagara 

 Falls. This moss ordinarily grows in pockets in limestone rocks 

 and, being very small, is easily overlooked. Mrs. Britton alluded 

 also to the synonymy of PolytricJmm OJiioense Ren. & Card. 

 This species was distributed by Drummond in his Musci Ameri- 

 cani as PolytricJmm pallidisetum and is apparently the same as 

 what was afterwards recognized in the Manual of Lesquereux 

 and James as PolytricJmm formosum, var. pallidisetum, but 

 whether the original PolytricJmm pallidisetum of Funck is identi- 

 cal remains to be determined. 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg in "A Review of a recent Monograph of 

 the Ranuncuiaceae " discussed the work recently published by 

 Dr. K. C. Davis. 



The final paper was by Mr. S. H. Burnham and was entitled 

 " Notes on the Flora of the Lake George Region." Mr. Burn- 

 ham referred especially to Bidens Beckii, an aquatic plant grow- 

 ing in five or six feet of water in muddy streams, and to his ex- 

 periences in collecting it through the ice during the last week of 

 November of the present year. He also alluded to the restric- 

 tion of Castalia tuberosa to the streams flowing directly into Lake 

 Champlain while Castalia odorata alone is found in the Lake 

 George basin. Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary pro tern. 



Annual Meeting, January 14, 1902 



This meeting was held at 8 p. m. Jan. 14th, at the College of 

 Pharmacy ; Judge Brown in the chair, seventeen persons present. 



The following were elected to active membership : Mr. I. C. 

 Buchheister, 28 Pine Street, N. .Y.; Mr. Stewart H. Burnham, N. 

 Y. Botanical Garden ; Dr. Henry Kraemer, Philadelphia College 

 of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The committee on clerical aid reported as follows : 



