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" Outside of the grasses, sedges, and rushes (together about 40 

 species), there are no monocotyledons in EUesmere Land and 

 only Tofieldia palustris in northern Greenland. The rest are 

 dicotyledons, representing 26 families. 



" Nearly all the plants are perennials. The herbs are mostly 

 densely tufted plants with thick rootstocks ; these grow in the 

 gravel-beds and among rocks. The plants of the moister and 

 richer soils have usually more slender and creeping rootstocks. 

 The only annuals, as far as the speaker knew, were the two 

 species of scurvy-grass. 



" The collections made by Dr. Goodsell and by Dr. Wolf niMn- 

 bered together 60 species. Some of the species were duplicated 

 by specimens from different localities. A few other Greenland 

 and EUesmere Land plants, not in these collections, were also 

 exhibited in order to give a fairer idea of the flora of the region. 

 Some species were represented also by specimens collected in 

 the Rocky Mountains, in northern Europe, or northeastern 

 America, to show how the same plants grow under more favor- 

 able conditions." 



The meeting adjourned at 10.25 p. m. 



Jean Broadhurst, 

 Secretary pro tern. 



February 23, 19 10 



This meeting was held in the morphological laboratory of the 

 Museum of the New York Botanical Garden at 3:30 p. m. Seven- 

 teen persons were present. Dr. William A. Murrill presided. 



Mr. Sereno Stetson, 507 West 113th Street, New York City, 

 was nominated for membership. 



The first part of the announced program consisted of an 

 "Informal Report on a Collecting Expedition to Panama" by 

 Dr. Marshall A. Howe. The period between December 5, 1909, 

 and January 12, 1910, was devoted to botanical explorations in 

 the Canal Zone and vicinity. The special object of the visit was 

 to collect and study the marine algae of the region, but the marine 



