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northern New Jersey, across into the Pocono plateau of Pennsyl- 



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vania, and southward into the Jersey Pines. Lists of plants noted 

 during these field days are held in the Club minutes for use to- 

 ward a permanent catalogue. Among the genera which have re- 

 ceived recent additions or corrections as the result of these field 

 days are Ophioglossum, Dryoptcris y Sisyrincliium and Picea. For 

 some years a joint excursion with Philadelphia botanists has been 

 an annual feature. The pleasurable incidents of recent three-day 

 excursions to the Pocono, the Delaware River, and the Tom's 

 River and Forked River regions will not soon be forgotten by 

 their participants. And to the great effect of these field days in 

 promoting good fellowship among lovers of nature, and stimulat- 

 ing that love of nature to fresh activities, it would be impossible 

 to do justice. 



One of the most valued results from the labors of the Torrey 

 Club has been the work of individual members on the local flora. 

 Early local catalogues prepared by members, later than the cata- 

 logue by Torrey in 1817, were those on Staten Island by Drs. N. 



Arthur Hollick, on Stissing Mountain 



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latter two in manuscript) and, in recent months, on Long Island 

 by Dr. S. E. Jelliffe, extending the earlier partial catalogues of E. 

 R. Miller, Henri W. Young and others. Most valuable work 

 contributory to the New York local flora was done by Mr. W. H. 

 Leggett, C. R Austin, Dr. T. F. Allen and Mr. H. Schrenk in 

 earlier years, and in recent periods by Rev. Mr. Lighthipe, Mrs. 

 Britton, Miss Sanial, Mr. E. P. Bicknell, and especially by Dr. 

 Britton, who is still the head of the club's Committee on the Local 

 Flora. 



The u Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta 

 growing within 100 miles of New York," was the result of the labors 

 of Dr. Britton with Mr. E. E. Sterns and Mr, Julius Poggenburg. 

 A full and definite catalogue with ecological and quantitative fea- 

 tures as well as accurate localities, is an end toward which the club 

 is working. Before advancing to this end much work has been 

 done on general nomenclature of North American plants, by X. L. 

 Britton and others, resulting in the present revised catalogue of 

 names of North American plants. 



