FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



A party numbering eleven took part in the ramble along the 

 First Watchung Mountain near Bound Brook, New Jersey, on 

 the afternoon of Saturday 21 May. The trip began near the 

 point known as Chimney Rock, where the leader gave a short ac- 

 count of the origin of the basalt ridges which form the Wat- 

 chung Mountains. A rich upland vegetation was found on the 

 slopes of a valley, while the cliffs afforded good studies of rock 

 xerophytes, chief among which were: Saxifraga virginiensis, 

 Aquilegia, Arabis lyrata, Phlox subulata, Henchera americana, 

 together with four kinds of ferns. But the spot which made the 

 greatest appeal to the party was a meadow aglow with Phlox 

 pilosa, Erigeron pulchellus and Castilleja coccinea. One of the 

 members found a clump of Triosteum aurantiacum, and another 

 member located a specimen of Orobanche uniflora. Access to this 

 area showing such variety of upland plants was made possible 

 through the courtesy of the Bound Brook Water Co. 



M. A. Chrysler 



Field Trip of June 11 to Great Swamps, Madison, N.J. 



One of those rare June days brought a group of fifteen to 

 Morristown for the start of a most interesting day. Perhaps it 

 was the temperature which prevented really serious botanizing 

 in the Great Swamp. The ground was so dried from lack of rain 

 that many of the rarer bog plants seemed just too hard to locate. 

 For the writer the most exciting find was an Alder Flycatcher's 

 unmistakable "Bee wick" note, Mr. Chubb settling for the first 

 time his otherwise impossible identity in her mind. After a 

 short walk the cool shade of a log lean-to welcomed us back to 

 the woods. Lunch was eaten. 



Further botanizing occupied the early afternoon in the 

 beautiful wild flower and fern garden of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer 

 Marsh at Madison. There are gathered between forty-five and 

 fifty species of fern, their separate tastes in soil, moisture and 

 sunlight most successfully supplied, judging by the satisfied air 

 with which they were growing. With so many of the rarer north- 

 ern ferns represented, how can I correctly name all those most 

 worthy of mention? Two Bladder Ferns, two Woodwardias, 



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