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Mimulus luteus L. Yellow monkey-flower. 



Abundant on a springy slope in Elk Canyon. (Lead.) 

 Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. Wolfberry. 



Frequent along Box-elder Creek, on plain near Underwood. 

 (Eastern.) 



* Loiiicera utahensis Watson. Low honeysuckle. 



Rare, on deep cool woods in Elk Canyon near Runkle. 

 Sicyos angulatus L. Burr cucumber. 



In thickets along Rapid Creek near Rapid. (Eastern.) 

 Erigeron anniius (L.) Pers. Sweet scabious. 



Common in "Red Valley" near Blackhawk, (Eastern.) 



* Arnica pmnila Rydberg. 



Fairly common on dry slopes west of Rapid City and near 

 Mystic. 



Carnegie Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona 



THE 1909 SYMPOSIUM AT STAMFORD, NEW YORK 



From the point of view of the specimen hunter, the symposium ' 

 held this year at Stamford, Delaware County, July 3-10, will not 

 be considered a successful event as the number of " rare finds " 

 readily accessible was scanty. From the view-point of those 

 interested in ecologic and phytogeographical problems the week 

 spent in the mountains will be remembered with pleasure. 



Generally speaking the area covered during the week is the 

 northwestern outpost of that part of the Catskills which lies 

 within the range prescribed by the club's preliminary catalog of 

 1888. The town itself is about 1,800 feet above sea-level, and it 

 is nestled in a natural basin. The depression is fringed with 

 mountains, the highest of which is Mt. Utsayantha, credited with 

 an elevation of 3,365 feet. Within three miles of the town the 

 headwaters of the western branch of the Delaware river take 

 their origin, and as it runs through the town the stream is scarcely 

 more than a tiny brook. In this same height of land, but flow- 

 ing in the opposite direction, the headwaters of Schoharie creek 

 originate. This ultimately flows into the Hudson, via the 

 Mohawk. 



The club herbarium contains practically no material from Del- 



