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from the base, as we know it, grew absolutely erect, sometimes to 
the height of three feet or more, often entirely simple, more com- 
monly with from one to three branches of habit similar to that 
of the stem, to which they ascended in close proximity. The 
leaves were few and strictly erect about the stem. Euphorbia 
hypericifolia was abundant, but I found no plant which branched. 
All grew to the height of from two to five inches, strictly 
erect, and naked below. 
A Trip to Montauk Point, Long Island. 
By ArTHuR HOLLICK. 
Montauk Point, Long Island, by reason of its comparative in- 
accessibility, has not been much visited by botanists. It is distant 
from Sag Harbor, the nearest railroad station, about seventeen 
miles as the crow flies, and as the journey from that point must 
be made by wagon the actual distance is somewhat more. The 
usual method of accomplishing it is to drive from Sag Harbor to 
Amagansett, spend the first night there, taking all the following 
day to reach the point and return to Amagansett. Even by this 
means the trip is necessarily a hurried one, and there is but little 
spare time for exploration on the way. 
On July 4th and 5thof last year, I was able to make the trip, 
and it proved to be a highly interesting one. Between Sag Har- 
bor and Amagansett the land is flat and sandy. Tephrosia Vir- 
gintana and Lupinus perennis were in profusion by the roadside, 
and Echium vulgare was abundant and conspicious just beyond 
the thickly settled part of Sag Harbor. From Amagansett to the 
Point the road first runs parallel to the beach through sand and 
wet meadow land. Great patches of Hudsonia tomentosa and 
Arenaria Caroliniana covered the ground where dry, and in the 
wet places were thick mats of Oxycoccus macrocarpus and Arcto- 
staphylos Uva-urst was everywhere. Rhododendron viscosum in 
large clumps occurred frequently, and in one of these I noted a 
bush bearing dark pink flowers. My first thought was that it 
must be a belated individual of uudiflorum, but a brief examina- 
tion proved it to be a pink form of wiscosum. The leaves are 
slightly glaucous beneath, giving a somewhat grayish-green ap- 
pearance to the bush, which served to distinguish it from the 
mass of the other foliage. It is rather a curious coincidence that 
