FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Trip of August 19. 



About thirty Torrey members and friends gathered at 

 Point Pleasant for the trip on August 19. A drive of about two 

 miles took us to a cove on the north side of the Manasquan 

 River where we found a fine stand of Hydrocotyle Canbyi and 

 two specimens of Eryngium aquaticum. These were the remains 

 of a dwindling stand that seems doomed from natural causes 

 as it is undisturbed by man or beast. A few miles farther up 

 the river, near Allaire, there was formerly a fine lot of Habenaria 

 ciliaris. We could find only two specimens as where they had 

 grown in the sod for many years there was now a prosaic field 

 of Brassica oleracea. 



Next we visited the home of the leader overlooking the 

 Manasquan, for Hibiscus Moscheutos and Pluchea camphorata. 

 Here also were shown specimens of Habenaria nivea, Eryngium 

 virginianum, and Sclerolepis uniflora collected a few days earlier 

 near Cape May. 



After a picnic lunch we drove south to Seaside Heights, 

 across Barnegat Bay, to Toms River, and down the Jolly Tar 

 trail to a very interesting spot near Waretown. Here Coreopsis 

 rosea, Polygala lutea, and P. cruciata were abundant. We jour- 

 neyed on through Barnegat and Warren Grove to the edge of 

 the Plains for the find of the day, Habenaria Integra. Even the 

 Botany Department of Rutgers is at last convinced that integra 

 still grows in New Jersey. There were quantities of Xyris, 

 Eriocaulon, and all three of the Droseras. Corema, Hudsonia, 

 and Dendrium were abundant. A few specimens of Habenaria 

 blephariglottis were seen. This also seems to be disappearing as 

 localities having hundreds a few years ago have few or none 

 this year. A hurried call to the region south of Chatsworth for 

 Schizaea and the fruiting plants of Abama and Tofielda and to 

 New Lisbon for Lygodium finished the trip. 



Vernon L. Frazee 



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