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with densely squamulose podetia, and ramosa, with extremely 

 branched podetia, were common. These "British soldiers," so- 

 called because their scarlet apothecia suggested the bright uni- 

 forms of the redcoats in the American Revolution, were to be 

 seen along the route followed in October, 1777, by the British 

 force which climbed over Dunderberg Mountain to storm Forts 

 Clinton and Montgomery. The brown-fruited C. mitrida was 

 occasional. The Reindeer Mosses, Cladonia rangiferina and al- 

 pestris, were numerous, also the somewhat similar C. furcata. 

 Among the cup bearing Cladonias, C. chlorophaea and C. pyx- 

 idata were common and on the Doodletown mine dump was 

 found a rarer form, C. multiformis, with greatly variegated 

 smaller cups with fantastic proliferations. The horned forms, 

 C. bacillaris and macilenta, were everywhere. 



The Rock Tripes, Umbilicaria pustulate and Gyrophora Dil- 

 lenii, were conspicuous on the higher ledges on West Mountain 

 and the Timp. Parmelia conspersa, our most common lichen, 

 was everywhere, also P. saxatilis and P. tiliacea, all on rocks; 

 and P. caperata, on trees. The crustose rock lichens, especially 

 Lecidea albo-caerulescens, Biatorella claims, Rhizocarpons and 

 Verrucarias were numerous; and in Doodletown Brook, the 

 aquatic Dermatocarpon mini alum aquatic um . 



Raymond H. Torre y 



Sunday, November 29 



A dozen members of the Club and friends met at the Nep- 

 perhan station of the Putnam Division in Yonkers to study 

 twigs and the remains of fall flowers. The ground was still cov- 

 ered with snow from the preceding Friday, but the temperature 

 was mild. Following Tuckahoe Road to the Yonkers Nursery, 

 little was found but the common roadside weeds. One vine of 

 Rhus toxicodendron, however, so completely clothes a dead tree 

 that the vine itself appears to be a tree. Opposite the nursery is 

 a fine stand of Acer Negundo, some of which were in fruit. In 

 the growth under these trees one plant of Lepidium virginicum 

 was found which still had white flowers at the top of the raceme. 

 From this point our route followed the road to Grassy Sprain 

 Reservoir, ascending a steep bank into the wood just south of 

 the dam. On the top of this hill is a station for Silene pennsyl- 



