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FIELD TRIPS OF THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB, 
1919. 
Tur Berkshire field trip with a center at Pittsfield from May 29th 
to 31st was attended by nine men, who during the two days of active 
field work explored typical sections of nine townships. As a result 
the Club Herbarium will be enriched by many hundreds of sheets 
representing nearly 500 species, many of them heretofore known from 
only one or two stations in the state (for instance, Salix serissima con- 
spicuously in flower in late May and collected in nearly all the towns 
visited) while at least eight plants new to the state were collected. 
It is too soon to report in detail upon these collections but the result 
of the trip is so gratifying that the Committee feels justified in urging 
a second field trip this year. It is consequently planned to spend the 
week-end including Labor Day, from Saturday, August 30th, to Mon- 
day, September Ist, exploring the ponds and bogs of western Rhode 
Island and adjacent eastern Connecticut. This region is as little 
known as any section of southern New England, largely because it is 
not readily accessible by railroad, and it is earnestly hoped that mem- 
bers who can provide automobiles for this exploration will feel ready 
to do so. Only a few of the ponds of this border line between Rhode 
Island and Connecticut have yet been touched by botanists but these 
have brought to light so many isolated, southern coastal-plain types 
that a concerted effort to explore many of them should yield most 
interesting. results. Wallum Pond, at the northeastern corner of 
Rhode Island and in adjacent Worcester County, Massachusetts, is 
the only station in southern New England for Sclerolepis uniflora. 
Slightly to the south, Long Pond in ‘Thompson, Connecticut, is the 
pond so invitingly recommended by Mr. Weatherby in the April 
number of RHopora, where in a partial survey he and Mrs. Weatherby 
found many species new to the county and Aster nemoralis and Eleo- 
charis interstincta new to the state. Beach Pond in Voluntown, Con- 
necticut, and Exeter, Rhode Island, is the only station in New England 
for the rare southern Eleocharis Torreyana; and Grassy Pond in Hop- 
kinton apparently received its name from the great profusion there of 
Panicum longifolium, one of the rarest grasses of southern New 
England. These are only a few of the ponds in this boundary tract 
but they have proved so productive that the Committee feels certain 
that a concerted exploration by automobile of this area of western 
Rhode Island and eastern Connecticut will yield of large results. 
All members who wish further notice of the plan, including the 
details as to the meeting place, should notify Mr. R. C. Bean, 48 
Emerson Street, Wakefield, Mass. 
M. L. FERNALD, Chairman 
R. C. BEAN 
C. H. KNOWLTON 
Committee on 
| Field Excursions. 
