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committee of three be appointed to prepare a plan of organ- 

 ization and work. Messrs. Goodale, Farlow and Dimmock 

 were accordingly appointed. 



The meeting then adjourned to the following Wednesday. 



Section of Botany. May 10, 1876. 



Dr. J. C. White in the chair. Thirty- four persons present. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting to present a 

 plan of organization for the Section reported, through Dr. 

 Goodale, the following recommendations : — 



That the meetings he conducted as informally as possible, the or- 

 der of business being: 



1. Communications, including the exhibition of specimens. 



2. Informal discussion of the topics thus brought up. 



3. Reports on the latest botanical researches. 



The Committee further recommend that the members should join 

 in the preparation of a complete catalogue of the plants of the 

 vicinity. 



The report was accepted and adopted. 



Dr. G. L. Goodale exhibited some drawings prepared by 

 Mr. W". P. Wilson, of an interesting monstrosity observed in 

 some apple blossoms from New Jersey. In these flowers the 

 stamens had been replaced by pistils, and a singular two- 

 storied ovary was formed ; the flowers then being wholly 

 female, could only be fertilized from blossoms on adjoining 

 trees. Dr. Goodale had not been informed whether the 

 fruit showed any peculiarities. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow described the nature of the so-called 

 "cedar-apple," which is produced by a fungus. 



Mr. R. W. Greenleaf exhibited some flowers of Posoque- 

 ria longiflova, a .Brazilian plants, and, by a set of drawings, 





