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Drosera rotundifolia 
near Southfields, a station on the Erie R. R. 25 miles east of that 
city. Although the time I had allotted myself for a vacation was 
spent, the opportunity was not to be missed, and leaving the cars I 
took the next returning train for Southfields. Arriving there in com- 
pany with the son of my informant, the self-educated and genial 
botanist Isaac P. Madden, we learned that the pond lay up on the 
mountain about two miles south-east of the station. After a pleasant 
walk down the valley of the Ramapo, and a "directly heavenward " 
chmb of nearly three-quarters of a mile, we reached the pond, a beau- 
tiful sheet of water about ten acres in extent, situated, I judge, 900 
feet above the valley at this point. The entire margin of the pond is 
a dense growth of Sphagnum of the quakiest kind, a step upon the 
surface of which can be detected in 'the responsive waving of tree- 
tops over a hundred feet distant; this sphagnum carpet was at all 
points mterspersed with the largest and most beautiful Sarracenia 
pitchers I ever had the pleasure of examining, while the surface of 
the pond itself was nearly covered with a luxuriant growth of 
Nymp/icea odorata. In order to catch the returning train, I had but 
a short hour to spend at this arcane spot, nevertheless in the time I 
remained I found that Drosera rotundifolia, L., and D. longifolia, L., 
were really very abundant, though their flowering season in this 
locality was so nearly spent that only a flower or two were to be seen. 
Of Orchidaceae I saw Habenaria psycodes. Gray, H. hyperborea, R. Br.. 
H.dilatata, Gray, H. bhphariglottis, Hook., and H. lacera, R. Br., 
Lalopogon pulchelius, R. Br., Microstylis monophyllos, Lindl., and, in 
the w;^oods near by, Aphctrum hyemale, Nut't. This latter plant I have 
found numerous specimens of at Ross Park near this city. I am in- 
^'"'^ zv rf' ^yP^'ip^dium arietinum, R. Br., C. candidum, and C. 
spectabtle, Swartz, have been gathered at, or near, this pond. 
i know of no peat-bog near new York City that would better return 
an 
excursion of the Torrey Club in May or J 
June next season. I hope to find 
it a station for many of New York's boreal species. 
On the route from Middletown home, I noted from the car windows 
that Bapusia ttnctoria, R. Br., though plentiful all along the road from 
New York, ceased entirely at about one mile east of Hancock on the 
Delaware; I have not seen it in Broome Co., the flora of which I 
hope to complete in about three years. 
Binghamton, N. Y. Chas. F. Millspaugh. 
Salisburia adiantifolia, Smith.— Although it has been known for 
several years that the ginkgo fruits abundantly each year in Central 
Park, yet, as a recent copy of Henderson's "Handbook of Plants" 
states that "there has been no fruit borne in this country," and as 
Josiah Hoopes in " The Book of Evergreens " does not note the 
fruiting of any of the trees he knows, I venture to say to all who are 
interested in seeing the fruit and desire to obtain specimens that they 
Will be supplied upon application to me at the Normal College, 
N. Y. City. 
Elizabeth G, Knight. 
