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"This region is a most remarkable one, which cannot fail 

 to impress the visitor with a sense of loneliness and sterility. 

 It forms a part of the water-shed or divide between streams 

 flowing into the Atlantic and those discharging into the 

 Delaware River. Locally it is known as the West Plains, but 

 these so-called "plains" are long, undulating swells of sand, 

 sometimes rising to a height commanding extensive views over 

 a desert of sand so sterile that even the trees of Pinus rigida 

 which sparsely clothe it can attain only to a height of three or 

 four feet. No sign of human life is visible, and one could easily 

 imagine himself in the midst of a vast wilderness. We followed 

 the rising swells of ground . . . both to the east and west of the 

 road to the extent of at least half a mile, and for a like dis- 

 tance in the opposite direction without losing sight of the 

 Corema, and we probably did not reach its limits. In some 

 places the patches were separated by intervals of some rods, but 

 often scores of them were seen at once, and in many places they 

 became confluent in large masses, reminding one of the appear- 

 ance of the plant at Plymouth, Mass." 



The writer has found Corema at this place for the last five 

 or six years, but only in the roadway or very close beside it. 

 However, during the last year, some government agency with 

 its usual lack of consideration in such matters, or its ignorance, 

 has repaired the road and destroyed the last vestige of the 

 plant in this locality. About half a mile further south, however, 

 or exactly one and one-tenth miles from the main road, it can 

 be found along both sides of the old road where the new did not 

 follow it, and for some distance back on the south side of this road. 



At this date it had passed its time of bloom. Pyxidanthera 

 was only occasionally opened. Scattered plants of Arbutus were 

 for the most part past bloom. Everywhere trailed the graceful 

 Arctostaphylos, and in favored locations rose the upright stems 

 of Dendrium buxifolium whose buds were beginning to show 

 considerable color, and the green bristles of Hudsonia ericoides 

 were pricking through its drab winter coverings. 



W. L. Dix 



Trip of May 1 to Seven Wells, Dover Plains, N. Y, 



Beginning at Pawling the party motored towards the Seven 

 Wells which are about two miles below Dover Plains on the 



