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response to the advance of Mr. Stacey, with his unlimited store 



of patience and know -ledge of the cue of tin- caged bird led u- 



past the luncheon hour. Here, indeed, is tin- ideal place t<> trans 

 port oneself on a wintry.day ! 



A visit to the kinkawm, the odd mammal belonging to the 

 family including our racoons, demonstrated again the response 

 to man's kindness on the part of one of Nat ure's arboreal crea- 

 tures, this individual being especially docile. 



Some of the group continued through the early afternoon 

 over a part of the Botanical Garden viewing the winter sil- 

 houette of trees, returning for a collection of twigs to be used 

 in classrooms. 



Helene Lunt 



buckberg and cedar pond brook 



February 17, 1934 



The south sides of the hills had melted fairly clear of previous 

 heavy snows, and the temperature had risen to about freezing, 

 from previous zero marks, on the field trip of the club on Sun- 

 day, Feb. 17, from Tomkins Cove, over Buckberg Mountain, 

 south through Rosetown, to Cedar Pond Brook and down along 

 its gorge to Stony Point. 



Lichens were the most obvious plants under the conditions. 

 Several Cladoniae were found, including papillaria, cristatella, 

 f. vestita; subcariosa, mitrula, caespiticia and tenuis. Old walls 

 at the top of the steps leading from Tomkins Cove station to the 

 state highway were encrusted with Candelariella vitellina and 

 Caloplaca aurantiaca. The unusual colony of the limestone fern 

 Pellaea atropurpurea, on lime mortar in the cracks of a granite 

 wall, seemed to be increasing. 



The western extension of the Cortlandt series of rocks 

 (typically displayed on Blue Mountain and Spitzenberg on the 

 other side of the Hudson) in Rosetown, southwest of Tomkins 

 Cove, was studied, in outcrops in the fields, and in the ancient 

 stone walls. Its most conspicuous member is a hornblendic 

 rock, with much black hornblende in streaks and large isolated 

 crystals. It seems to be favored by Caloplaca aurantiaca. Hand- 

 some, zonate-edged colonies of Lecanora cinerea grew on smooth 

 granite glaciated cobbles in the walls. 



