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 FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Trip of June 1 to Staten Island 



The field trip to Staten Island "for Sedges and Grasses to an 

 interesting sphagnum bog" had to be shifted at the last moment 

 to another region because the heavy rains a few days earlier had 

 flooded the bog with several inches of water. 



From the ferry the group went by bus to Fours Corners, then 

 by the Travis bus to Sigers Road. The way led along the road to 

 the marshes, across them to the bridge over the creek on Travis 

 Avenue, then east to the water works near the Bird Sanctuary. 



Only the more common sedges were found, except for Carex 

 rosea Schkuhr., a sedge that was collected on May 25, 1889, by 

 Dr. N. L. Britton on Staten Island. The criteria are — (1) slender, 

 brownish, not twisted, stigmas; (2) beak little contracted; (3) in- 

 conspicuous v/hitish edge to orifice of perigynium. The only un- 

 common grass found was Puccinellia distans (L) Pari., collected 

 at the edge of the marsh in early fruiting condition. 



In the latter part of the afternoon our original group of four 

 was joined by the Staten Island Bird Club of sixteen people and 

 we then spent some time exploring the Springville Bird Sanc- 

 tuary established by William T. Davis a number of years ago. 



At the entrance to the sanctuary the ground was nearly bare 

 of vegetation except for a large number of green balls half an inch 

 in diameter lying scattered on the surface. These were fastened 

 to the soil by a brown, withered strand that must have been earlier 

 the growing support of the balls. A little study of these objects 

 showed them to be the seed pods of the Fawn Lily (Erythrouium 

 mnericanum Ker.). 



William H. Wiegmenn and A. T. Beals 



Trip of June 8 to Oxford, Conn. 



This was advertised as a joint meeting with the Connecticut 

 Botanical Society but the only Torrey Club member present was 

 the leader. About twenty members of the local society attended. 



Whorled Pogonia was seen in dry woods at Oxford in the last 

 stages of its flowering and on the borders of a wooded swamp were 

 the Mountain Holly, Neinopantlnts mucronata, and JJ^oodtvardia 



