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choking the water between. Where the soil is close enough to 

 the surface to admit their growth, large areas are covered with 

 the chain-fern (Woodwardia) , and rarely, where the mud is 

 exposed or is covered with sphanum moss, Limodorums and 

 Calopogons and pitcher-plants (Sarracenia) are to be found. 

 The never-wets {Orontium) grew in tufts and sometimes in 

 large societies where the water was not very deep, but this 

 plant seemed to be more characteristic of the borders of the 

 open waterways and "lakes." At this time they were very 

 beautiful with their great velvety green leaves and flowers of 

 striking colors and form. The inflorescence has no spathe but 

 the naked spadix about two inches in length is brilliant golden 

 yellow when covered with pollen; below this an area of equal 

 length purest gleaming white, succeeded by another area of 

 mottled red merging into the green of the scape. 

 Department of Botany, University of Georgia, 

 Athens,, Georgia. 



BOOK REVIEW 



Schaffner's Field Manual of Trees* 



The popular demand for this excellent little pocket manual 

 is reflected in the appearance of a second edition. Except for 

 the correction of a few typographical errors and certain minor 

 changes, the subject matter is the same as in the first edition, 

 published in 1914, (see review in Torreya 14: iio-iii). G. E. 

 Nichols. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



Meeting of May 31, 1922 



This meeting was held in the Museum of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, beginning at 3:30. 



Mr. M. French Gilman, Banning, California, was elected to 

 membership. 



* Srhaffner, J. H. Field Manual of Trees, including southern Canada and 

 the northern United States to the southern lioundary of Virginia, Kentucky, 

 and Missouri, westward to the limits of the prairie. Pp. I-I54- Second 

 edition. Columbus. 1922. 



