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,/ Ipomoea egregia nom. nov. 



/. citncifolia A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 90. 1883. Not 

 Meissn. 1867. 



Little need be added to the original description, except to note 

 that it is one of a group of slender plants with small perennial 

 tuberous roots and annual stems, slender funnelform corollas 

 and globose, 4-valved capsules, to which belong such species as 

 Ipomoea Lciiiinoni K. Gray,/. leptosipJion S. Wats., /. Diuricata 

 Cav. (/. capillacca G. Don), /. madrensis S. Wats., and /. leonensis 

 Robinson. The type of /. cuneifolia A. Gray, and therefore of 

 /. cgrcgia, was collected at Tanner's Canon, near Fort Huachuca 

 in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona by J. G. 

 Lemmon, Sept., 1882 {110. 2Sj/). Type in the Gray Herbarium, 

 duplicate in the National Herbarium. Homer D. House. 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



April 25, 1906. 



The Club met at 3:30 p. m. in the Museum Building of the 

 New York Botanical Garden. President Rusby was in the chair 

 and there w^as an attendance of sixteen. 



Professor Richards, chairman of the committee to arrange for 

 the celebration of the tenth anniversity of the commencement of 

 work in the development of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 presented a report. 



Notice of the coming Botanical Symposium to be held from 

 July 2 to 9, 1906, at Mountain Lodge, Little Moose Lake, Old 

 Forge, N. Y., was read. 



The following communication from the secretary of the Coun- 

 cil of the Scientific Alliance to the secretary of the Club was 

 read : 



New York Botanical Garden, 



Bronx Park, April 14, 1906. 

 Dear Sir : 



I take pleasure in stating that the proposition of effecting a 

 closer relationship of the societies composing the Scientific Alii- 



