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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 
Visit to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey 
On Friday, September 10, the visiting botanists and friends 
barrens of New Jersey. nder the guidance of Mr. Percy 
ilson, chairman of the field committee of the Club, the party 
of about fifty persons left New York on the Atlantic City express 
at 9:50 A. M. and at 12:20 reached Tom’s River, where Juncheon 
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Mr. Percy Wilson and Dr. William A. Murrill. 
Of all the plants, the curly-grass (Schizaea pusilla) was the 
one most eagerly sought for by members of the party, some o 
m were oo with this rare little fern in its natural 
search in the sphagnum moss along its margin, a few Schizaea 
plants were collected. Other specimens were discovered later 
in the day, when a visit was made to a large cranberry bog. 
pecies of club-mosses were tune in » the ak oe 
Two sg 
bordering one of the bogs; one of th t 
with its ea club-like heads, was ae abundan 
Orchids, which at certain seasons are gmeng te mst ae 
plants ae our Soutien ie Jersey swamps, 
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of the rose pogonia (Pogonia Gplioelessoides) and eeveral much 
withered plants of the orange-fringed orchis (Blephariglottis 
ciliaris). 
In.some of the moist sandy depressions and along the margins 
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In the dry sandy regions, the pitch pine was the most ae 
