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Asplenium nwntanum were noted. Nyssa sylvaticum was found 

 in fruit. The alleged date-like taste of the drupes was not de- 

 tected. The onl>- plant of Rhus vernix which is known on the 

 estate was seen. Ilex verticillata and Ilex monlana were ob- 

 served in fruit. Adlnmia fungosa seemed to be a new plant to 

 some. The fruit of Gaultkeria procumbens were especially large, 

 and tasty! The following asters were noted, Aster acuminatus, 

 loivrieaniis, divaricatus, novae-angliae, vimineus and trades- 

 canti. Solidago caesia was the only goldenrod found in bloom. 

 The following species had gone to seed: Solidago graminifolia, 

 latifolia, arguta, erecta, and nemoralis. 



Daniel Smiley, Jr. 



Trip of December 5 to Lakehurst, in 

 THE Pine Barrens 



The brooks in the Pine Barren area of Southern New^ Jersey, 

 around Lakehurst, Ocean County, were seen by the members 

 of the club to be running full of cranberries. Continued rains 

 had flooded the cranberry bogs and floated the spoiled and 

 many good berries missed by the pickers some weeks before, 

 over the dams, and the dark, tea-colored streams, running over 

 their banks, bore millions of the scarlet fruit. 



Lichens, at this season, were of interest, and in good condi- 

 tion after wet weather. Some color was given, among flowering 

 plants, by the slender, dark red, racemed fascicles, of the flower 

 buds of the Stagger-bush, Lyonia mariana, and buds of the same 

 color, in umbels, of the Sand Myrtle, Leiophyllum buxifolium. 



Cladoniae were the chief object of study among the lichens, 

 including tall, robust C. sylvatica, along edges of woods in 

 swamps; C. caroliniana, ff. dilatata and dimorphoclada, C. 

 uncialis and the common Pine Barren cladina, C. tenuis, always 

 identifiable by its frequent fertile condition, w4th numerous 

 tiny brown apothecia, whereas all the other larger, densely 

 branching species of this genus in the Barrens are sterile. C. 

 squamosa, f. levicorticata, m. rigida, was, as usual in the Barrens, 

 frequent, and it seems to flourish there, although it is very 

 widely spread in eastern North America, occurring on the high 

 summits of the Adirondacks, New England, Maine and Gaspe, 

 and ranging in altitude from a few feet above tide to over 5,000 

 feet. 



