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Picea albertiana sp. nov. — A slender tree, attaining a height 

 of over 1 5 m. Twigs and sterigmata smooth and shining or 

 occasionally slightly glandular but never glaucous, yellowish- 

 brown, when young becoming darker with age ; sterigmata 

 strongly reflexed and standing out frequently more than i mm. 

 from the twigs : leaves pale-blue or blue-green, surrounding the 

 stem and crowded toward the upper side, at the ends of the 

 branches, 1.5 cm. to 2.5 cm. long, 4-sided, with 3, 4. or some- 

 times 5 rows of stomata on each side, incurved, acute or acu- 

 minate with a rigid tip : cones ovate, bright-crimson when young, 

 at maturity 2.5 cm. to 3.5 cm. long and nearly as broad when ex- 

 panded, early deciduous; scales stiff and rigid, broadly rounded 

 at the apex, entire, broader than long, cinnamon-brown with a 

 chestnut edging and shading to darker chestnut toward the base ; 

 bract 2 mm. or less long, i mm. broad, with a sharply angular, 

 more or less acute erose tip. 



Type 110. 7g6, S. Broicii, Bankhead, Alberta. 



The common spruce of the lower altitudes through the Ca- 

 nadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia, differing from P. 

 canadensis (Mill.) B. S. P. in the longer, strongly reflexed sterig- 

 mata, shorter, broader and darker colored cones, with broadly 

 rounded scales and minute sharply angled bracts, and from P. 

 Mariana (Mill.) B. S. P. in the lighter colored, smooth twigs with 

 longer sterigmata, and light-blue or blue-green leaves, and cones 

 with broader, entire scales with angular-tipped bracts. 



Stewardson Brown. 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 April 24, 1907 



The meeting was called to order at the museum building of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, at 3 : 40 p. m. with Dr. M. A. 

 Howe in the chair. Twenty persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of March 27, 1907, were read and 

 approved, and also a note recording the postponement of the 

 stated meeting of April 9th, 1907. 



Mr. Edward B. Chamberlain, 38 West 59th St., N. Y. City, 

 was nominated for membership. 



The resignation of Mrs. H. A. DeCoster, dated March 25, 



