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play of Amianthium muscaetoxicum, Scleria pauciflora, var. caroliniana, and 

 what Mr. Lewis was almost certain was Amanita gemmata, might appeal." 

 Leaders, E. T. Wherry, R. B. Gordon, Theodor Hass and Arthur LaDow. 

 Attendance well over 50. Reported by Hollis Koster. 



June 10. Mount Vernon, N. Y. was substituted for the more exposed 

 walk announced, due to the threat of rain which fully materialized during the 

 afternoon. During the short period of botanizing a number of the expected 

 plants were found. Leader, Mary Holtzoff. Attendance 5. 



June 17. Mt. Peter, N. Y. The specialists never appear. Four competent 

 botanists each made a list which is on file with the field committee. After con- 

 solidation it was found that 216 seed plants, 16 ferns, 9 mosses, 1 liverwort, 

 12 fungi, and 45 lichens had been recognized on a little over two miles of trail. 

 So the botanical survey of the Appalachian trail moves along a bit. Leader, 

 G. G. Nearing. Attendance 11. 



June 24. Haskell, N. J., to tramp the Glenwild circular with the New 

 York Mycological Society. The cool spring reduced the numbers of fungi but 

 Boleti and Russulas were found. Some of the party collected the water lichen. 

 Leader, F. R. Lewis. Attendance 10. 



June 30. The New York Botanical Garden. The walk was led by the 

 President of the Club, Dr. Fred J. Seaver. The best find of the day was Coins 

 Javinicus, a phalloid known from only two stations in North America, a 

 single collection from Pittsburgh, and occasional collecting at the present sta- 

 tion. It had not been collected in several seasons until Dr. Donald P. Rogers 

 came across it on this walk. Attendance 10. 



July 1. Nepera Park, Yonkers, N. Y. A pleasant walk was reported 

 with observation of the natural history of the area in a general way. Leader, 

 Eleanor Friend. Attendance 7 . 



■ July 7. Ward's Point, Staten Island. This area which is rapidly being 

 encroached upon by "development" offers an interesting study from year to 

 year. A single plant of Lythrum alatum Pursh was found. Norman Taylor de- 

 scribes this plant as "Unknown on L. I. and S. I., formerly near Fordham, 

 very rare northward." The distinctness of the plant found from L. hyssopifolia 

 has been checked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. There was quite a display 

 of butterfly weed. Allionia, reported last year, was found again but no Polanisia 

 was seen. Leader, Charles Ericson. Attendance 12. 



July 14. West Orange, N. J. To visit the fern garden of Mr. W. Herbert 

 Dole. Eighty odd species of ferns with markers were growing and a number of 

 probable hybrids that were not marked. The leader also reports, "My climbing 

 fern, which has done so well for the past ten years, failed to put out any new 



