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listed some years ago by Norman Taylor as one of the little 

 known plants of Long Island, Aristida tuberculata, and Trichos- 

 tema dichotoma. 



Thence the old unused railroad bed was traversed to the 

 Biological Laboratory for dinner. After dinner the laboratories 

 were briefly visited, and the Datura display of the Carnegie 

 Laboratory was explained by Dr. Cartlege. Dr. Blakeslee, for- 

 mer president of the Club, spoke to us there. 



A walk across the salt marsh on a gravel path yielded 

 Scirpus robustus, S. americanus , Typha latifolia, T. angustifolia, 

 Aspidium thelypteris, Hibiscus moscheutos, Iva oraria, Distichlis 

 spicata, Juncus gerardi and Spartina patens in glorious con- 

 trasting tints of velvety meadow, Limonium carolinianum, 

 Solidago sempervirens, Buda marina, Plantago decipiens, Spartina 

 glabra alterniflora, and the algae Viva latissima, Enter omorpha 

 intestinalis, E. clathrata, Ascophyllum nodosum and Fucus sp. 



The New York State Fish Hatchery furnished a fine display 

 of water-loving mosses and liverworts: Amblystegium irriguum, 

 Chiloscyphus rivularis, Brachythecium rivulare, Cliniacium kind- 

 bergii, Fontinalis novae-angliae and Marchantia polymorpha. 

 The shores of St. John's Pond proved rich in liverworts, mosses 

 and vascular plants: Gratiola aurea, Hypericum virginianum, 

 Callitriche palustris, Lycopodium lucidulum, Woodwardia areo- 

 lata, Riccia fluitans, Lophocolea bidentata, Odontoschisma pro- 

 stratum, Pallavicinia lyettii, Georgia pellucida, Dicranum fiagel- 

 lare, Hypnum imponens , Bryhnia novae-angliae, Drepanocladus 

 exannulatus. 



The route to the Laboratory covered about three miles. We 

 were mostly in the oak-chestnut forest of Shantz & Zon, first 

 in the dry black oak phase and then in the more mesic chestnut 

 oak phase with Kalmia latifolia. At the moist cool margin of 

 St. John's Pond we have a fragment of the birch-beech-maple- 

 hemlock forest of Shantz & Zon, with Betula lenta abundant 

 and a considerable amount of beech and Betula lutea. The moist 

 areas of these formations furnished our hygrophilous flowers and 

 mosses. Finally, the salt marsh gave us the marginal maritime 

 vegetation of a protected saltwater cove. These numerous vege- 

 tational zones account for the richness of the flora in so short a 

 hike. A half mile more would have taken us into the beech-grass 

 (Ammophila) association, but time was limited. 



Henry S. Conard 



