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ranged for a symposium on \-acant lot and school gardens to be 

 held December 1 1. The rctjuest that liu- jjrogram committee 

 call the meeting at Sioo P.M. instead of 8:15 P.M. was granted. 



A motion to omit the Wednesday afternoon meeting in Decem- 

 ber was carried. 



Mr. Abram Schulz, 666 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, was elected 

 to membership. The resignation of Miss Edna Adams was read 

 and accepted. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who acted as secretary at the semi- 

 centennial meetings, read the minutes of the meetings held 

 October 18. 19 and 20. Dr. Britton reported that the Semi- 

 centennial Fund now amounted to about $2,100. 



The first number on the scientific program was a paper on 

 "Notes on a Carrier of the Mosaic Disease," by Mr. M. Xishi- 

 mura. This paper will be published in full in the Bulletin. 



Dr. F. J. Seaver was not able to be present. He had consented 

 to exhibit a specimen of a rare cup fungus. 



Dr. A. B. Stout then read a paper on "Axial Proliferation in 

 the Flowers of Hibiscus." An abstract prepared by the speaker 

 follows. 



The most complex "growth observed consisted of numerous 

 branches bearing green leaves and w^ell-developed flowers all very 

 closely compacted and enclosed in a space between the cells of 

 the fruit. The most simple proliferation observed consisted of a 

 small rudimentary and solitary carpel of a pistil. 



"These proliferations have been numerous for nearly all plants 

 of Hibiscus oculiroseus which have been grown at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. The number of pods wath proliferations 

 varies greatly among different plants and also for the same plant 

 in different years. The greater proportion of proliferations de- 

 velops in the first flowers that bloom. 



"No proliferations have been found in any strains of Hibiscus 

 militaris or H. Moscheutos, but they occur among the hybrids 

 between the latter and H. oculiroseus. 



"Numerous specimens and drawings were exhibited." 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg and others took part in the discussion of 

 this paper. 



