plants, including- additions to the photographic records of muih m" 

 these ferns, showing typical specimen plants. 



Ecology and Plant Geography 



Flora of Long Island 

 By Norman Taylor 



The publication of Research at the I'rooklyn Hotanic Garden 

 last July make:, it: needless to outline projects in process. Work 

 has been continued in all of them, but field work on the " Flora 

 of Long "Island '" was reduced because of my work at .Allegany 

 State Park. 



More than 2,000 records of Long Island plants, however, were 

 gathered from the herbaria at Ithaca, Albany, and Cambridge, 

 many of them of the greatest importance as being the only speci- 

 mens upon which the Long Island occurrence of certain species is 



At Allegany a study in physiographic ecology was carried on 

 for eight weeks, the results of which are now in press. 



Work carried out at Merrick and Fire Island Beach on salt 

 tolerance of certain sand dune and salt marsh plants has been 

 continued. Such studies seem of more theoretical than practical 

 importance. But a very practical application of them is now 

 under way at the Jones's Beach Causeway. The Long Island 

 State Park Commission has appealed for help in stabilizing the 

 material pumped out of the bay and spread over the marshes. 

 Upon this the Boulevard will be built, but without some vegetative 

 covering it would be buried by drifting sand. The problem is an 

 interesting theoretical one as salt tolerance and sand tolerance 

 are required in different degrees, depending upon the nature of the 

 material and the time of its deposit. 



