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The plant, with three, sometimes four oblong leaves, and with 

 an upright raceme, is dwarf compared with our other two species 

 of the genus, 5. racemosa and stellata. It occurred with Clintonia 

 borealis. There are few occurrences of this plant south of this 

 Shawangunk station. Dr. H. D. House, New York State Bota- 

 nist, records it as extending to Orange and Dutchess Counties. 

 Norman Taylor records it in Pine Plains, Dutchess Co., N. Y.; 

 and Morris and Sussex Counties, N. J. ; (possibly in Green Pond 

 Swamp and on Kittatinny Mountain?). He lists it as among 

 plants forced south by the ice sheets of the last Glacial Period, 

 and not now found south of the terminal moraine. 



Another interesting plant, found along a path descending 

 the southeastern face of the mountain, was Pogonia verticillata, 

 which is not common. The colony included more than twenty 

 plants. 



Special attention was given to lichens, with the guidance of 

 Mrs. Gladys P. Anderson. The most common crustose lichen is 

 Rinodina oreina, which is everywhere on the ice-polished Sha- 

 wangunk quartzite, in dainty little islands or in large colonies 

 probably centuries old. Gyrophora Muhlenbergii is common, as 

 everywhere on this mountain, in the small form, an inch in 

 diameter or less, perhaps due to the open, waterless conditions 

 on the ice-planed ledges or the many boulders. Other lichen 

 genera well represented were Lecanora, Lecidea, Rhizocarpon and 

 Acarpospora. Cladoniae were mostly of species resistant to the 

 numerous fires which are set by the blueberry pickers to cause 

 new crops; including C. strepsilis and papillaria, on the thin 

 earth, with some C. sqaumosa and verticillata. C. uncialis was 

 everywhere on thin soil, but the Cladinae were not common, and 

 evidently suffer in fires. 



Some fairly large Red Spruce, mixed with hemlock, persists 

 in the steep walled depressions, in dropped fault blocks, frequent 

 on this much broken up mountain. These conifers are absent 

 on the open ledges, swept by fires, but are protected by the rock- 

 walled, moist depressions. Rhododendron, (Azalea) canescens 

 seems to be the prevalent species in place of R. nudifiorum of 

 lower altitudes. Pyrus (Sorbus) americana is fairly common. 

 Amelanchier spicata is common, here replacing the A . canadensis 

 of lower hillsides. 



Mud Pond, a shallow body of water about a third of a mile 



