PLANT MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 97 
work of the country having already ample outlet for its 
energies. Two standing committees were appointed, one on 
admissions and the other on programs. Abstracts of papers 
designed to be read before the society must be in the hands of 
the program committee, of which the Secretary-Treasurer is 
chairman, on or before December 1. No one shall be admitted 
to the society who has not published valuable papers or given 
satisfactory evidence of ability to do original work. For the 
present, at least, the society will meet with the American 
Society of Naturalists. Dr. W. G. Farlow was made President 
for 1898, and Prof. W. F. Ganong, Secretary-Treasurer. No 
proceedings will be published. The following new members 
were elected: Spalding, Webber, Swingle, Rowlee, Harshberger, 
Fairchild, Harper, Holm, Woods, Hicks, Pieters, Merrow, Por- 
ter. The old members, z.e., the original committee, and such 
persons as were subsequently invited to become members of it, 
include Farlow, Goodale, Bailey, Atkinson, Smith, Galloway, 
Burt, Wilson, Sturgis, Richards, Cummings, Macfarlane, Thax- 
ter, Penhallow, Robinson, Greenman, Stone, and Ganong. It 
is hoped that the end of the year will see the membership of 
the society increased to at least forty, and it is confidently be- 
lieved that the ensuing meetings will be even more successful 
than the pleasant one which has just closed. 
The following is a synopsis of the proceedings. In most 
cases the abstracts were made at my request by the authors 
themselves : 
Pror. Joun M. MACFARLANE: A Mycorhiza in the Roots of the Lili- 
aceous Genus Philesia. “This was the second recorded case of symbiosis 
between a liliaceous plant and a fungus. The genus Philesia grows in 
the damp humus soil of West Patagonia, and forms coralloid root 
masses. The fungus was sparingly present outside the roots, also in 
the epidermis and exocortex, but formed an abundant growth in the 
mesocortex, the cells of which rapidly became filled with coiled 
fungous hyphe. The large spherical starch grains of these cells were 
acted on by the hyphæ, and were dissolved by solution rather than 
corrosion. A large amount of proteid material then appeared in the 
hyphe. With growth of the root extremity the fungus steadily pene- 
trated the mesocortex cells of the growing point, numerous hyphz 
