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have been due lo the presence of numerous suspended filaments 

 of a microscopic blue-green alga, Oscillatoria prolifica (Grev.) 

 Gomont, previously known in America from Jamaica Pond 

 near Boston and from Wisconsin. A more detailed account is 

 published in the August number of the Journal of the Nezv York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Dr. H. M. Denslow presented notes on some local (jrchids. in 

 September, 1920, he collected in the adjacent towns of Bristol, 

 Burlington, and Southington, in Hartford Co., Conn. More 

 than 800 plants were counted, representing nine species of 

 orchids. The most abundant was Ibidium cernuum, in pastures 

 and along roadsides. Ibidium gracile was infrequent. A. large 

 colony of Peramiiim piibescens was found on a wooded hillside 

 very near a popular resort in Southington and in one of the 

 frequented parts of this grove a few plants were seen of each 

 of the following species. Galeopsis spectabilis, Corallorrhiza, 

 odoiitorJiisa, C. maculata, and Triphora trianthoplwra. In the 

 town of Burlington were found Blephariglottis psycodes, Fissipes 

 acaidis, and Peramiiim piibescens. In a recent number of Torreya, 

 Dr. G. Clyde Fisher reports Cypripedium arietinum from near 

 Westport, N. Y. There are in the Garden herbarium speci- 

 mens of this orchid from two other towns in Essex County, 

 Chesterfield and Willsboro. 



Marshall A. Howe 

 Secretary pro tern. 



Meeting of November 8, 1921 



The constitutional date for the first meeting in November 

 falling on Election Day, a legal holiday, the meeting for this 

 date was omitted. 



MicicTiNC OF November 30, 1921 



The meeting of this date was held in the Morphological 

 Laboratory of The New York Botanical Garden. 



The following persons were nominated for membership and 

 afterwards elected : 



Mr. John M. Arthur, Thompson Institute of Plant Research, 

 Yonkers. N. Y. 



Dr. A. H. Graves, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Miss Caroline G. Howe, East Orange, N. J. 



