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four or five days after the wounding, the turgor has increased 

 again and the wounded and unwounded onions are practically the 

 same in this respect. Carrot, beet and radish were also used. 



Dr. MacDougal showed plants of Monotropsis odorata sent by 

 Professor Johnson, of Johns Hopkins University. He also 

 showed a basket made by the Pima Indians of Arizona, of Tvpha, 

 Martynia and Salix, and exhibited the aval or calabash fruit 

 from Sonora, of economic importance, of genus Crcscentia. 



.vliss Angell, of Plainfield, New Jersey, exhibited living plants 

 of Viola Angellae in flower. When the plant is flowering the 

 scapes exceed the leaves, but later in the season the leaves over- 

 top the scapes. S. H. Burnham, 



Secretary pro tem. 



Fourth of July Excursion of the Club 

 The Fourth of July excursion of the Torrey Club promises to 

 be one of exceeding interest and profit. The main excursion 

 will be to the Jamesville " green lakes," which are among the 

 few stations of the hart's-tongue fern in America. It is planned 

 to leave by carryalls from the postofflce at Syracuse at nine 

 o'clock on the Fourth making an all-day trip in conjunction with 

 the Syracuse Botanical Club. It is planned to visit both the 

 green lakes and one or two interesting glens in the neighbor- 

 hood. The green lakes are small ponds in the bottom of am- 

 phitheater-like hollows two hundred feet or more deep and said 

 by the geologists to be the heads of ancient waterfalls. The 

 lakes are very deep, and filled with cold water more or less im- 

 pregnated with sulphur. The surrounding rock is of the cor- 

 niferous and Helderberg limestone which overlie the Salina (salt) 

 formation. Probably as large a variety of ferns grows about 

 these lakes as in any limited area anywhere in the country, and 

 mosses, fungi, lichens, and flowering plants grow in great pro- 

 fusion. On Saturday the fifth of July the club will visit the sa- 

 line vegetation on the shores of Onondaga Lake, leaving the 

 city by trolley cars. It is hoped that later excursions will be 

 possible at the Kirkville green lakes and possibly Sylvan Beach 

 on Oneida Lake. It is desirable that all who intend going with 



