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The subject was further discussed by the President, Dr. Britton, Mr. 
Samuel Henshaw, and Mr. Livingston, the latter referring to his recent 
experience as an orchid collector. <A slide was exhibited, made from 
a photograph taken by Mr. Livingston showing his orchids packed 
upon oxen and so carried down from the mountains to Magdalena. 
Mr. Henshaw spoke of his visit to Mr. Siebrecht’s nursery in Trinidad, 
and of the growth made there by Crotons, as much in one year as here 
in four or five. In those gardens they divide their plants by rows and 
edges of Crotons which are sheared off as we would trim a privet-hedge. 
Mr. Henshaw also paid a deserved tribute to Mrs, Van Brunt for the 
wonderful success of their coloring of the orchid slides. 
February 24, 1897.—The first paper was by Mr. Arthur Hollick, “A 
fossil Arundo from Staten Island.” 
This paper, which is to appear in the Bulletin, was presented by Dr. 
Britton, with prefatory remarks referring to this discovery. Its occur- 
rence was in yellow sand of Staten Island belonging to late Tertiary or 
early Quaternary; the locality, a pit near Fort Wadsworth. The pre- 
liminary reference to Phragmites is now changed by Mr. Hollick to the 
tropical genus Arundo. 
A paper followed by Mr. E. O. Wooten, “ Remarks on some of the 
rarer Plants of New Mexico.” 
Mr. Wooton sketched briefly the botanical regions of New Mexico, 
dividing the territory by differences in the flora into (a) the river val- 
leys, (b) the table-lands or mesas; (c) the dry, rocky and narrow moun- 
tain ranges, and (d) those areas which are of uniformly high altitude 
and have numerous mountain ranges closely associated and more or 
less timbered. He also traced upon a map the routes trasvered by 
most of the botanical collectors who have visited New Mexico, begin- 
ning with Pike and including Long, Gregg, W islizenus in 1846, Emory, 
Marcy, Sitgreaves, and Woodhouse, with the work of the Mexican 
Boundary and other surveys, 1849 and after. Mr. Wooten was himself 
practically the first to make collections in the south-east section of the 
territory, a very interesting, botanical region, with high mountains, 
some of which were illustrated by photographs. Specimens of Mr. 
Wooton’s collecting were then shown exhibiting about 35 flowering 
plants and ferns, and including among those familiar in the east, Pel- 
lea atropurpures, Cystopteris fragilis, Pteris aquilina and Cheilanthes 
tomentosa. 
Discussing Mr. Wooton’s presentation, Dr. Rusby spoke of his own 
former travels in New Mexico, and of various incidents of that journey, 
as of the discovery of Primula Parryi on the top of Gray’s Peak (cen- 
