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Growing in shallow water in company with a small Eriocaulon, 

 possibly E. Parkeri Robinson.* 



Veronica scutellata L. Same locality and date (2jQi). This 

 species, as shown by specimens in the National Herbarium, has 

 been collected several times previously along the Potomac River 

 in the vicinity of Washington. As it occurs frequently in the 

 mountain district of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, occasionally 

 below this as at Tullytown, Bucks Co., Pa., and along the lower 

 Susquehanna River, the range of this species in the manuals 

 must be extended considerably southward, 



Galinsoga caracasana (DC.) Sch. Bip. — In a moist corn field 

 along the Potomac River above Great Falls, Fairfax Co., Va., 

 collected Aug. 7, 1910 {251Q), in company with G. parviflora 

 hispida DC. F. W. Pennell. 



University of Pennsylvania. 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB 

 March 29, 191 1 



The meeting was held at the museum building of the New 

 York Botanical Gardens at 3:30 p.m. Vice President Barnhart 

 occupied the chair. Thirteen persons were present. 



The minutes of the meeting of March 14 were read and ap- 

 proved. 



The following communication from Miss Caroline C. Haynes 

 was then read : 



"Sixteen East Thirty-sixth Street, 



New York City. 

 Mr. Bernard O. Dodge, 



Secretary and Treasurer, 



Torrey Botanical Club, Columbia University. 



Dear Sir: It is desired by a number of the members of the 



club and by others interested, to establish a fund in memory of 



* According to the determination of Dr. J. K. Small this is Eriocaulon Parkeri. 

 The plant was heretofore known only from near Camden, N. J., and from near 

 Bordentown, N. J., where it was collected by the writer of this footnote in August, 

 191 0. Mr. Pennell's discovery of this plant near Washington, D. C, increases its 

 known range about two hundred miles, and also reduces the number of plants 

 strictly endemic in the local flora range. — N. T. 



