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The Non-glumaceous Plants 



The primary objective of the trip was a study of the chaffy 

 or glumaceous series of herbs, such as Poaceae and Cyperaceae. 

 Other plants, from the royal-blooming cohorts and red-fruited 

 shrubs down to the tiny mealy flowers of pigweeds were merely 

 an incidental background to this. Thus, in this section of the trip's 

 account only secondary importance is to be given. 



The trip really consisted of two trips, one to the Juniper Swamp 

 with its weed-association (indeed, Chauiacdaphne calyculata used 

 to grow here several years ago, but those days are now gone) and 

 the other to the far removed Idlewild with its orchids. 



The broader leaved Blue Curls and Ci'ofolaria sagittalis grew 

 in dry soil in the first locality. Our most interesting find was in a 

 ditch near the side of a railroad. Here, in a habitat of Alisina 

 siibcordatum, Ranunculus sceleratus and Triadenum virginicum 

 (relic of the Chamaedaphne days) flourished Heteranthera reni- 

 jormis, Mud-Plantain, with flowers yet infolded within the spathe. 

 Taylor in his "Flora of the Vicinity of New York," gives its local 

 New York distribution: "In the Hudson from Dutchess Co. 

 northward." The Local Herb, in the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den has no representative from New York State; the Britton 

 Herb, has sheets from Ulster and Greene counties. Some weeds 

 of the roadside observed en route to Idlewild were: Reynoutria 

 japonica Houtt. {Polygonum cuspidatum) , Padus mrginiana 

 (filled to the gills with cherries), Galinsoga aristulata Bicknell 

 ex descr., Phytolacca (also berried), Potentilla recta, Saponaria, 

 Scleranthus, Leptilon, Convolvulus sepiuni, C. arvensis, Conirne- 

 lina communis, Persicaria pennsylvanica, Medicago lupidina, 

 M. sativa, the great fragrant Melilotus alba, the loveliest blue of 

 Cichorium, and hosts of other weeds. A little removed from the 

 road we spied a colony of Vernonia, deep-purple flowered, and an 

 enmassed yellow of several species of goldenrods, entwined with 

 Amphicarpa hracteata (L.) Fernald and flowering Apios aincri- 

 cana Medic. 



In the northwest corner of the Idlewild Beach Golf Club, near 

 146th and Idlewild Road, we landed in one of the most remark- 

 able stations of our trip. Here, heralded by Vaccinium coryni- 

 hosum — or shall we state this luscious berried one as Vaccinium 

 angustifoliuin Ait. X V- arkansanum Ashe X V- ausfrale Small? 



