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quarters. The extraordinarily backward season provided but little 
in the way of seed collections, but gave excellent opportunity for 
photographing and collecting on the Cumberland Plateau many 
of the rare and evanescent flowers of earliest spring, such as 
Diamorpha cymosa, Saxifraga Grayana, Dodecatheon Hugeri, and 
several species of Trillium; Leavenworthia, Psoralea subacaulis, 
Phlox stellaria of the cedar glades near Nashville; Carex Barrattii 
(a species “lost”? to Alabama for a hundred years), and Phlox 
mivalis of the Sand Mountain area in northern Alabama. From 
many of these photographs lantern slides have been made. These 
not only increase our collection of material from the South, but 
represent many species never before adequately photographed. 
Loca Friora SECTION 
Projects of this kind take several years before desired results 
can be obtained, but the planted trees have now really become an 
“open woods 
on a small scale, and the pitch pines in the sand 
area begin to provide some of the atmosphere of the New Jersey 
pine barrens. This section is much more than a ‘“ Wild Flower 
Garden,” as it is sometimes called, but is rather an attempt to 
show on a small scale and in a limited area the best features of 
the now rapidly-disappearing vegetation of the vicinity of New 
York City, and to provide ground for experimental observation 
of variability of poorly known or questionable plants of our area, 
such as species of Helianthemum, the small kinds of Oenothera, 
violets, asters, and golden-rods. Such a study is made possible 
by the variety of habitats (sand-barren, bog, woodland, open 
“meadow,” etc.) now established in the Local Flora valley. As 
atl example of the progress in these plantings may be mentioned 
the excellent and persistent growth through several years of such 
recalcitrant conifers (within city limits) as larch (Larix laricina), 
swamp cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), red spruce (Picea rubra), 
black spruce (Picea mariana), and balsam fir (Abies balsamea). 
Changes in the Local Flora Section during 1936 have not 
materially affected the topography of the area. The western part 
has been planted with trees and shrubs transferred from more 
crowded areas: large-leaved poplar, aspen, button-bush, and wil- 
lows. The sand-barren has been extended from the pond nearly 
