296 SEMI-CENTENNIAL OF TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 
the higher mountains of this region are in the State Forest Re- 
serve. This reservation includes practically everything above an 
altitude of 1,500 feet. 
About forty-five species of native trees were found. Un- 
doubtedly the most abundant tree of the neighborhood is the 
yellow birch, Betula lutea. To a great extent it is taking the 
place of the hemlock. In some localities one sees scarcely any- 
thing else. A few beautiful specimens of the paper birch were 
observed. Their chalky whiteness could be seen from afar. The 
sweet or black birch, Betula lenta,is common. In July, when the 
American chestnut was in bloom, many fine trees were seen about 
Woodland. This tree extended up the mountain side to an 
altitude of about 1,500 feet. The chestnut-tree blight, so destruc- 
tive in many localities, reached that part of the Catskills this 
year for the first time. During the latter part of August, its 
ravages could be plainly seen. 
Oaks are scarce in that locality. A few good trees of the red 
oak were observed in the vicinity of Woodland. The black oak is 
the only other Quercus that we came across. Hickories are also 
rather scarce, only a few trees being found. Among the more 
common trees growing there are the American beech, American 
hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), American aspen (Populus 
tremuloides), large-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata), Amer- 
ican linden, white ash, sugar maple, mountain maple, red maple, 
witch hazel, American elm, and slippery elm. The serviceberry 
(Amelanchier canadensis) is quite common and has finer fruits 
than it has in any other locality where I have found it. A few 
fine specimens of the butternut (Juglans cimerea) are growing in 
the lowlands about Woodland. At an altitude of about 2,000 
feet, the striped or goosefoot maple is quite common. Some of 
the trees are forty feet high with trunk diameters of six to eight 
inches. 
The white pine is a common tree about Woodland and 
Phoenicia. Many of the smaller trees are attacked by the white- 
pine weevil, Pissodes Strobi Peck. The attack in almost every 
case is made on the central axis about three feet from the top, 
causing it to die. We found no evidence of the white-pine blister 
rust. 
