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conspicuous trees while shrubs and ground plants were represented 

 by numerous species. Four northern plants were seen which venture 

 into New Jersey only in these upland areas of the northern coun- 

 ties. Thus Xew Jersey represents the southern limit of their range 

 except as they follow down the higher ridges of the Appalachians. 

 Comics canadensis is one of these. Neither Britton's Catalog nor 

 Taylor's Flora of the vicinity of Xew York record this species 

 from Warren County. A specimen in the herbarium of the Xew 

 York Botanical Garden is labelled, "Green's Pond, Warren County, 

 X'ew Jersey, 3.1ay 21, 1921. In larch woods, very rare." Green's 

 Pond is now ^Mountain Lake on the topographical maps. Rhodo- 

 dendron canadense is reported in the above manuals from Alorris 

 and Sussex Counties only. Prunns ciincata is also limited to the 

 northern counties in X'ew Jersey, and MuJiIenbcrgia racemosa is 

 credited with a similar distribution. The last three are not recorded 

 from \\"arren County in the herbarium of the Xew York Botanical 

 Garden. This trip therefore may have produced three definite exten- 

 sions of range. 



Among the ferns seen, Aspidiuni siuiulatuni and JJ^oodwardia 

 virginica are distributed over the state but their occurrence is 

 sufficiently local to make this station of interest. A total of ten 

 ferns and 138 flowering plants were recorded without leaving the 

 trail. The list is filed with the field committee. Attendance, ten. 

 Leader, L. Hardy. Plant lists by L. E. Hand and G. G. Xearing. 



John A. Small 



Trip of October 4, 1941. to Brooklyx Botanic Garden 



This walk was devoted to a study of the pines. The distinguish- 

 ing characteristics of the white pines and pitch pines were pointed 

 out. The circumboreal distribution of the genus was evident from the 

 walk. American species included our common white pine, Pinus 

 StrobuSj and the dominant pitchpine of southern Xew Jersey, P. 

 rigida. Going northward on the magic needles we saw the red pine, 

 P. rcsinosa, and the far northern jack pine, P. Banksiana. Moving 

 westward via the Allegheny species, P. pimgens, we noted the west- 

 ern P. flexilis. It was obsen,'ed that two of the western species, P. 

 ponderosa and P. Jeifreyi do not grow well in the Prospect Park 

 environment. The following European species were seen : P. nigra 



