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gentian was seen to be abundant on the skies of a rocky railway 

 cut. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill, (lirough notes read by the Secretary, re- 

 ferred to various exi)editions f(^r the collection of fungi, one to 

 Florida in March, reported in full in the Journal of The N. Y. 

 Botanical Garden for July and also in tJie N. Y. I'imes; one to 

 Mountain Lake and Blacksburg, Virginia, on account of which 

 is forthcoming in the Journal, and fungus notes which appeared 

 in Mycologia for September; and a visit to Woodstock and 

 Yama Farms in the Catskills, a report of which will appear in 

 Torreya. Dr. Murrill was also at the Interstate Park several 

 times to assist Girl Scouts in their nature-study work. 



Dr. Tracy E. Hazen reported that he spent his summer at 

 Woods Hole, Mass., with a vacation later on Grand Manan, 

 New Brunswick. Much of the time at Woods Hole was devoted 

 to the identification of fresh water algae collected on Penikese 

 Island as a part of an attempt to make a list of the plants on 

 that island for comparison with a list published by Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan fifty years earlier. An apparently new species of 

 Chlamydomonas discovered on Penikese was found later on 

 Grand Manan. 



Mr. A. T. Beals reported on week-end trips to various points 

 in the local flora area. All swamps were found to-be unusually 

 dry. In Bushkill, Pa., and Closter, N. J., Ranunculus delphini- 

 f alius was collected. Special attention was given to slime- 

 moulds, several species of which were exhibited. Mr. Robert 

 Hagelstein had reported to him the collection of eighteen species 

 of slime-moulds from one log during the season. The different 

 species appear to have different times for maturing, September 

 being the culminating month for many of them. 



Dr. M. A. Howe reported an abundance of the fringed gentian 

 at Pleasantville, N. Y., in meadows where fresh seeds were sown 

 several years previously by Dr. George F. Norton. He men- 

 tioned also the occurrence of Gentiana linearis Froel. at Ne^^-fane, 

 Vermont. 



Miss Pauline Kaufman mentioned visits to Arcadia, Sound 

 Beach, Conn., and to Monachie, New Jersey. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary. 



