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Only one stand of Poleinonium Van-Bruntiae was found located 

 near a small pond that empties into Dry Brook at the 2,200-foot 

 level. General collections were made by several members. 



On Sunday several members of the party drove along the 



Beaverkill to the Balsam Lake Club. ,^, t -n 



w m. j . bonisteel 



Trip to Mt. Everett, Mass., September 6-7, 1941 



Beautiful weather and a terrain of rich discovery at a year-time 

 when summer is turning into autumn. The pity is that so many 

 members of the Torrey Botanical Club miss a trip like this. It ofifers 

 so much at a reasonable cost. Accommodations at the Hunt farm- 

 house are comfortable and the food Mrs. Hunt prepares for outdoor 

 appetites is simply "epoch making." 



Five persons were present. The leader, who has an amateur 

 standing, was especially glad that Miss Rusk was one of us. Dr. 

 Friedman, who is an entomologist, pointed out interesting facts in 

 his field. For instance, we found a beautiful mahogany shelf bracket 

 {Poly poms lucidum). Its mycelium had promoted the death of a 

 good-sized hemlock — and the bracket in its turn was being devoured 

 by beetles. 



We took special interest in studying the beginnings of the fall 

 foliage. The leaves of the hobblebush {Viburnum alnifolium), the 

 wild-sarsaparilla {Aralia nudicaulis) and the blueberries {Vac- 

 cinium pennsylvanicum) attracted our attention for their intermedi- 

 ate conditions of brilliance. They illustrated how the anthocyanin 

 reds begin at the outer edges of the leaves while green is maintained 

 along the veins. 



One plant that always attracts interest on this trip to the top of 

 Mt. Everett is the three-toothed cinquefoil {Potentilla tridenfota). 



We noted that the season was more advanced than at the corre- 

 sponding time a year ago. The blueberries, which we enjoyed eat- 

 ing last year, were all finished and we had to content ourselves with 



huckleberries. _ „ 



Ruthereord Platt 



