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Dr. G. Clyde Fisher exhibited specimens of Amelanchier from 

 the New England States and Dr. B. O. Dodge spoke of collecting 

 some fifty species of rusts and several species of Discomycetes at 

 Algoma,. Wis. 



Adjournment followed. B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 

 October 28, 1914 



The second regular meeting of the Club for October was held 

 October 28, 191 4, in the morphology laboratory of the New York 

 Botanical Garden at 3:30 P.M. with President Harper presiding. 

 Twent}' persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of May 27 were read and approved. 



Mrs. Britton, chairman of the program committee, reported 

 that programs for the meetings of the year were being arranged 

 and that complete programs would be presented in the near 

 future. 



James G. Scott, 123 W. Price St., Germantown, Pa. and 

 William H. Long, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C., 

 were elected to membership. 



The first paper on the announced scientific program on "The 

 Genus Oxymitra (Tesellina) in the United States" was presented 

 by Dr. Marshall A. Howe. All of the genera of Ricciaceous 

 Hepaticae with the exception of Oxymitra have long been recog- 

 nized as having representatives in the United States, and the 

 finding of a species of Oxymitra by Dr. M. S. Young at Austin, 

 Texas, now completes the generic representation of this family 

 in North America. The genus as hitherto known has been gener- 

 ally held to consist of a single species, long considered to be con- 

 fined to the Mediterranean region of Europe and Africa, though 

 more recently reported also from Paraguay and Brazil. The 

 Texan plant exhibits characters which seem to justify its specific; 

 segregation from the plant of the Old World. A description of 

 the proposed new species, and a discussion of the history and 

 synonymy of the genus are published in the numbers of The 

 Bryologist for September and November, 1914. 



Miss Margaret Slosson presented a paper on "An Interesting 

 Notholaena from Cuba." This fern was collected by Prof. J. F. 



