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To the Librari) — From D. A. White ; Jonathan Peiicy, 

 Jr. ; and L. A. H. Latour of Montreal, Canada East. 



To the Cabinets — From Dr. Geo. Osgood, of Danvcrs ; 

 Benjamin Grover, and R. H. Wheatland. 



Several new members from Lynn were also elected. 



As the enstomary attention to })lants found during the 

 day had been postponed at the last Field meeting on account 

 of press of other business, the Chair called upon Geoege D. 

 Phippen to offer to the meeting his observations in that line 

 this morning. Mr. P. then showed the spoils of his herbari- 

 zations. Of these he indicated noble specimens of Lobelia 

 cardinalis, a plant so fine and shoAvy as to have been con- 

 sidered worth cultivating for the flower gardens, in England, 

 for more than two hundred years. These specimens with 

 gigantic instances of the Tlioroughwort (^Eupatorium perfo- 

 liatuni) he found most plentifully in a meadow into which 

 he with some others of his party had unconsciously strayed 

 and discovered themselves cut off for a while from the resi- 

 due of the Company, but rescued by the exertions of Mr. 

 C. M. Tracy. 



Some parasitical plants known as Indian pipe and pine 

 sap (^Monotropa uniflora Sf M. hypopithys) and the deer 

 grass (^Rhexia Virg-inicci) also were brought forward. The 

 ground-nut (^Apios tuberosa) with its necklaced roots, sweet 

 and nutritrious in the diet of the aborigines and with its 

 chocolate colored blossoms smelling like violets and migno- 

 nette, and which Mr. P. declared furnished food and suste- 

 nance to the early settlers also, a plant to be cherished more 

 than it is for gratitude one would suppose, besides being so 

 pretty in the garden ; the Fire weed (^Epilobium angustifoli- 

 ww) so handsome with its tall spikes of purple blossoms, like 

 some phlox, though a veritable relative to the primrose: the 

 Hog pea-nut (Amphicarpa monoicd) resembling the pea-nut 

 of Commerce in burying its seed vessel under ground : the 



