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Following the keys to the phyla, other keys are given to the 

 orders of plants, including for convenience the phyla of the two 

 kingdoms below the Phyta. The arrangement of the orders fol- 

 lows closely the classification of Bessey, with the flowering plants, 

 Anthophyta, divided into Dicotyledoneae and Monocotyledoneae, 

 the first of these classes beginning with the order Ranales and 

 ending with the Compositales — the Salicales, Fagales, Juglandales 

 and other orders with simplified flowers coming well towards the 

 end of the series, the second class begins with the Butomales and 

 Alismatales and ends with Cyperales and Graminales. 



A glossary to the terms used is given, an outline of the classi- 

 fication and a list of references to works on classification of plants 

 and animals, chiefly, if we except the work of Bessey, works pub- 

 lished in the last ten or twelve years. 



FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Trips of August 26 and 27 to the Watchung Mountains 



Eleven members and guests were present on the trip of 

 August 26 to Seeley's Notch, near Scotch Plains, N. J., and nine 

 on the trip the following day to Wetumpka Notch and Washington 

 Valley, near Plainfield, N. J. Four hundred and eighty-nine species 

 and varieties of wild plants were identified, including 18 new 

 records for the area, bringing the total for this small area now to 

 1,492, of which 82 percent are native and 18 percent naturalized. 

 Species found for the first time in our area on these trips included 

 the floating pondweed (Potamogeton natans) on Seeley's Pond, 

 the slender knotweed (Polygonum tenue) on the exposed trap- 

 rock cliffs, the starry campion (Silene stellata), the short-stalked 

 false-pimpernel {Lindernia dubia var. iimjor), the fragrant bed- 

 straw (Galium triflorum), the low cudweed (Gnaphalium uligino- 

 sum), a recently introduced and rapidly spreading European sow- 

 thistle (Sonchus uliginosus), two bush-clovers (Lespedeza hirta 

 and .L. violacea), and several fungi, Coriolus nigromarg'matus, 

 Hapalopilus gilvus, Laetiporus speciosus, Irpex lacteus, and Hypho- 

 loma suhlateritium. The false-indigo (Amorpha fruticosa) reported 

 by Mackenzie in 1921 and not reported since, was rediscovered. 



