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OCaule was found in several places, in one place accompanied 

 by Pogonia vertic illata, the chief find of the day. 



Hester M. Risk 



Trip of May 20 to tiik Faiinstock Estate, N. V. 



The party started from the YYodehouse cottage on Oscawana 

 Lake, took the Cold Spring road north to Mud Lake. The road 

 leads through a dense hardwood forest in which species of oak 

 are dominant. Much of the land in this region had been cleared 

 and farmed, but about forty years ago was abandoned and al- 

 lowed to revert to forest. Occasionally, however, were seen some 

 of the giants of the original forest, principally white and red 

 oaks. Scattered throughout are a large number of sassafras 

 trees, all of which had suffered more or less severe winter injury 

 but apparently none of them quite killed. Mud Lake is small 

 and shallow with reedy and marshy shores, and brownish water 

 in which grow an abundance of white water lilies. The leaves 

 of these had already appeared, and lay with their freshly ex- 

 panded surfaces gleaming in the sunlight over the placid surface 

 of nearly the whole lake. 



From Mud Lake the party followed the Appalachian trail 

 northward to Clear Lake. Though this little lake is less than 

 a quarter of a mile away it is more than a hundred feet higher 

 than Mud Lake, and is in an entirely different setting. The 

 shores of Clear Lake are rocky and dry, and, where ever a foot- 

 hold may be obtained, are occupied by small pitch pines (P. 

 rigida), scrub oak (Q. ilicifolia), mountain laurel (Kalmia lati- 

 Jolia) and various species of Vaccininm. The water of the lake is 

 clear and cold, and devoid of any conspicuousaquatic vegetation. 



From Clear Lake the party continued northward through 

 rather open forest of Betula lutea, B. lenta and B. populifolia 

 in varying proportions, with an admixture of poplars, hemlock, 

 beech, an occasional linden and numerous badly diseased young 

 chestnuts. The many straight and slender boles of chestnut 

 standing whitening in the sun or rotting on the ground showed 

 that much of this region had been occupied by a dense and nearly 

 pure stand of chestnut prior to the visit of Endothia parasitica. 

 Over a large part of this region was a dense ground cover of 

 Lycopodium companatum, with occasional plants of L. obscurutn. 



