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The excursion announced for June i6, to Alpine, New Jersey, 

 with Dr. P. A. Rydberg as guide, was not made, the weather 

 conditions being very unfavorable. 



The excursion of June 23 was to Montclair Heights, N. J., 

 under the guidance of Dr. Rusby. The weather was very threat- 

 ening and but five persons attended. The storm broke almost 

 immediately after the party left the train, but not until after a 

 number of interesting plants had been collected. Lencotlioe was 

 found in a wet pocket in the trap rock, but was past flowering. 

 The development of plants of Gcraninni carolinianum L., growing 

 under different conditions of soil and exposure, was found very in- 

 teresting. Careful observations were made of the fruiting stage of 

 Viola alsopJiila Greene. The plant formed a dense growth, to 

 the exclusion of all else, in large patches on wet ground, reach- 

 ing a height of eight to ten inches. Its habit at this time is very 

 erect, and a striking peculiarity is the perfectly horizontal posi- 

 tion of the leaf blades. The distinguishing characteristics of 

 these blades are the peculiar sparse hairiness of the upper sur- 

 face and the satiny sheen of the glabrous lower surface. The 

 cleistogamous fruits were scarcely full-grown, and their position 

 and form and the curvature of the peduncles showed much vari- 

 ation, but they were for the most part sharply recurved, or almost 

 reflexed, which is probably the typical mature condition. This 

 plant is probably the real V. blanda Willd., as indicated by the 

 original figure. 



On June 30, the excursion was to West Orange, N. J., under 

 the leadership of Mr. Percy Wilson. 



The meeting of July 2 to 9, in connection with the Botanical 

 Symposium was at Mountain Lodge, Little Moose Lake, the 

 seventeen persons in attendance being guests of the Adirondack 

 League Club. The flora of the region has been attentively 

 studied for some years past by several members of that Club, 

 especially by Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, who has published a 

 preliminary list of the plants. The work of the visiting botanists 

 on this occasion will perhaps add a score or more of species to 

 this list. The method of work was to make extended excursions 

 during the day, and exhibit the collections and discuss the results 



