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PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 



October 27, 1909 



This meeting was held at the New York Botanical Garden and 

 was called to order at 3:30 p. m. by Dr. E. B. Southwick. 



About forty persons were present. After the reading of the 

 minutes of the preceding meeting, the scientific program was pre- 

 . sented, the first contribution being made by Mrs. N. L. Britton, 

 who spoke on " Arctic Mosses." The speaker's remarks were 

 based on studies of mosses sent from the American Museum of 

 Natural History to the New York Botanical Garden for deter- 

 mination. They were collected by Comm. Robert E. Peary in 

 Grant Land in 1902, and by Dr. L. J. Wolf at Wrangle Bay, 

 Lincoln Bay, and Grant Land in 1906. The Peary collection in- 

 cludes 62 bryophytes, of which 57 were mosses, representing 24 

 genera, and 5 were hepatics. 



Specimens of flowering plants were also exhibited which have 

 recently been acquired by the New York Botanical Garden 

 through the courtesy of the Peary Arctic Club from the American 

 Museum of Natural History. 



The collection consists of herbarium specimens made on the 

 late expedition of Comm. Peary to the North Pole and were col- 

 lected mostly by Di". J. W. Goodsell. While some of these were 

 obtained on the northern coast of Labrador, the majority were 

 collected on Grant Land, in the northern portion of Ellesmere 

 Land, an island off the coast of Greenland. One of the packages 

 contained specimens from perhaps the most northern locality where 

 flowering plants have ever been found, while another is from Etah, 

 the most northern habitation of man. 



Since the subject of mosses was the principal topic of the hour, 

 Dr. Murrill referred briefly to the genus Diciyolus, the species of 

 which are found on living mosses. This genus belongs to the 

 Chanterleae, a tribe of gill-fungi, and there are only two species 

 known in North America, D. muscigenus, occurring from Green- 

 land to South Carolina, and D. retirugus, known from Greenland, 

 Alaska, Minnesota, and California. Both species are small and 

 thin, grayish or brownish in color and have folded-like gills. D. 



