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feature of the vegetation. Scrub oaks were here abundant and 
represented by several species, many of which were only a few 
feet in height. 
Large-fruited tangleberries (Gaylussacia frondosa) formed 
scattered colonies among the is nes, while members of the thistle 
family were present everyw: 
Several members of the coe under the leadership of Pro- 
fessors Atkinson and Harper and Doctors Murrill, Seaver, Levine, 
si 
being chiefly sand and the water level low, the fleshy fungi were 
observed to develop lower down in the soil than is usually the 
case. The following agarics and boletes were collected and 
were named by Dr. W. A. Murrill: 
Venenarius ie es, Boletus luteus, Lactaria sp., Certomyces 
aria 
ari: Cl 
Russula delice, ji frustulosus (2), and Melanoleuca 
equestris 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II 
Visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and to the Cedar Swamp of 
Merrick, Long Island 
orenoon of this day was devoted to inspecting the 
The dominant tree of this swamp is Chamaecyparis thyoides. 
Mr. Taylor has furnished the following note on the flora of the 
region: 
“The swamp extends for nearly a mile north and south of the 
Pete ae alu The Hinge of a near the salt marshes 
being cone dead, others very ae pene mong the 
characteristic species observed during the trip were Potamogeton 
