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logus Plantarum Horti Academici et Agri Goettingensis, we 
found that the genus was adopted on page 85. He credits the 
genus to Haller and gives Serapias and Ophrys Linn. as synonyms. 
He then gave a generic diagnosis of four lines and on the following 
page divides the genus into two subgenera: (1) Helleborine and 
(2) Ophrys. The first must be regarded as the typical Epipactis 
and the first species under this subgenus is: 
“ Epipactis (Helleborine) floribus obsoleteca rneis, raris, labello 
obtuso, Hall. Enum. Helo. 275,” and under this is given as a 
synonym Serapias Linn. Sp. 1. 
The first species of Linnaeus’ Species Plantarum is Serapias 
Helleborine L., the type being the same as that of Epipactis 
Adans. Mr. Eaton’s fifty-one new combinations have to pass 
into synonymy, and the publication of the same was a waste of 
time and paper. 
P. A. RYDBERG. 
NEW York BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE TORREY CLUB 
The recent death of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, who was an 
honorary member of the Torrey Botanical Club, has served to 
call the attention of the active members to the matter of honorary 
membership. It was at the meeting held February 9, 1886, that 
a constitutional amendment was adopted providing that “ Hon- 
orary members may be chosen from botanists who have dis- 
tinguished themselves by valuable original investigations, and 
shall be limited in number to five." At the meeting of March 9, 
1886, Asa Gray was elected to honorary membership, and was 
the only member of this class until his death, January 30, 1888. 
Upon the death of Dr. Gray, the Club remained without an 
honorary member for more than a year. . 
At the meeting of April 24, 1889, five honorary members were 
elected, the full number authorized by the constitution. These 
were: Henri Baillon, Alphonse de Candolle, Joseph D. Hooker, 
Carl J. Maximowicz, and Julius Sachs. Maximowicz died in 
February, 1891, and at the meeting of April 29, 1891, Eduard 
Regel was elected to fill the vacancy; Regel died a year later. 
