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extension of the sea coast in recent geological times to explain 

 these curious stations, would do violence to the geological 

 record but the occurrence of three plants, a gymnosperm, an 

 angiosperm and a lichen, in such stations, far from normal 

 ranges, is intriguing. 



Easter Field Trip to Wilmington, North Carolina 

 April 16-18, 1938 



The Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, and the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, will join in an Easter field trip in the vicinity 

 of Wilmington, N.C., April 16-18. It will be under the leader- 

 ship of Dr. B. W. Wells, of Raleigh, N.C., who offers the fol- 

 lowing itinerary: 



Saturday, April 16, meet at 9 a.m., in the lobby of the Cape 

 Fear Hotel, Wilmington, N.C. Trip to Southport with stops en 

 route to study wire grass savannahs, pocosins (shrub bogs), 

 station for Dendrium buxijolium. Lunch at Southport. After- 

 noon, excursion to Fort Caswell, salt marshes, low dunes on 

 south facing beach; — weather and tide permitting, trip to Smith 

 Island. 



Sunday, April 17, leave Cape Fear Hotel, at 9 a.m., for Bur- 

 gaw, N.C, 25 miles north of Wilmington; visit the great An- 

 gola Bay, a peat bog 15 miles wide, and the Big Savannah, per- 

 haps the finest example of the savannah type of community 

 in the South. \'isit White Lake, of supposed meteoric origin, 

 near Elizabeth town. 



Monday, April 18, leave hotel at 9 a.m. for Carolina Beach, 

 stopping at Greenfield Park, with cypress-filled lake, and study- 

 ing the xeric vegetation (Selaginella acanthonota and other 

 peculiar species) of old bars on the way. Spend afternoon in sur- 

 vey of vegetation of lower Cape Fear Peninsula, which will in- 

 clude the recent evidence of Wells and Shunk showing the major 

 role of sea spray in determining the nature and form of dune 

 plants, rather than the wind per se. A transect of the peninsula 

 will be studied, to note recent physiographical studies recorded 

 by the vegetation. Dionaea may be seen at many places. 



