BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol, XVI.] New York, November 8, 1889. [No. II. 



The A. A. A. S. Botanical Club's Trip to the Lakes of IVIusI<oka, 



Ontario, August 31 to September 2, 1889. 



The excursion to Muskoka Lake, to which the Botanical Club 

 of the Association was invited, proved to be one of unusual in- 

 terest. Probably as many as fifty members of the Association 

 participated. A portion found their hotel accommodations at Port 

 Cockburn, at the head of the lake, and a portion at Port Sand- 

 field, near the center. The weather was faultless. 



Muskoka Lake is so irre^jular in outline and so narrowed in 

 places that it has been found convenient, in local speech, to call 

 Its two northerly divisions Lake Joseph and Lake Rousseau, re- 

 serving to the southerly portion the name of Muskoka. The lake 

 lies between 44^50' and 45° 20' N. latitude, and between 79° 

 20' and j<f yo\ longitude W. from Greenwich. Its level was 

 not precisely ascertained, but probably it is not more than 150 

 feet above Lake Huron, into which its waters are discharged, at 

 about 740 feet above tide water. Its basin is granitic, the rock 

 forming in many places a precipitous shore. The soil of the 

 country immediately around the shore is very thin, although suf- 

 ficient to support a forest considerably dense. P^ircs and the axe 

 have destroyed much of the original timber, but a second growth 

 has already supplied it. Upon the borders of the lake very little 

 ground has been put under cultivation. In fact, there would 

 seem to be but httle reason why agriculture should be there at- 

 tempted. Deer and bear are reported as abundant in places. At 

 ■Bala, the primitive forest is said still to continue. 



The northerly boundary line between the State of New York 



*Ai the session of the Club held on the steamer returning to Toronto, Monday 



September i, a committee was aj^pointed, consi-sting of l\or\. David F. Day, Pioi. 



r. J. TKirrill and the editor of the BuLi.LTlN, to pjepaie a report on theexcuision 



J he senior member of the Committee has prepareii the report which is here- 



iiubmitted. 



