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be healthy and persistent. It is found on the cliffs west of the 

 road rising from Cragsmoor Post Office to the top, beyond a 

 large boulder on a ledge overhanging the road. 



This part of the Shawangunks has several other interesting 

 northern plants. A flowering plant new to me, was Xyris mon- 

 tana, with small flowers, and erect, stiff stems, quite different 

 from Xyris flexuosa, of lower altitudes. A ralia hispida, Clintonia 

 borealis, and Trillium undulatum are common. Many fine speci- 

 mens of Habenaria bracteata were seen. The bright red fruit of 

 Amelanchier oblongifolia made a striking sight. A very little 

 Picea rubra is found, evidently survivals of larger stands. Bar- 

 tonia paniculata was another unusual plant. Corema Conradii, 

 which we found in April farther northeast on the ridge, on 

 Gertrude's Nose, was absent, though we scoured about ten 

 miles of the summit for it. We found the boreal lichen Cetraria 

 islandica, in two places, on Sam's Point and on High Point, 

 near the fire tower, but in lesser quantities than on Gertrude's 

 Nose. 



This region resembles the New Jersey Pine Barrens a good 

 deal, with its wide expanses of stunted pitch pines, two to six 

 feet high, dwarfed by the thin soil and the fires set by blueberry 

 pickers, to make the berry plants grow thicker. They seem to 

 pick almost exclusively the berries of Vaccinium pennsylvanicum 

 {angustifolium) with its plentiful, large and sweet fruit. Scores 

 of parties, picking for the market and for home preserving, were 

 seen, in the burned over areas. Vaccinium corymbosum occurs 

 in wet places, and more rarely a larger dark blue fruited species 

 which looks like V. atrococcum. 



The rocks are covered with a small, polyphyllous form of 

 Gyrophora, which is associated with unquestionable large G. 

 Muhlenbergii, and has the same horizontal bands of tissue un- 

 derneath. We found this common on the same geological forma- 

 tion, the Silurian Shawangunk quartzite, in the Kittatinys. 

 Mrs G. P. Anderson thought it a different form, hitherto un- 

 named, and suggested Gyrophora Muhlenbergii, var. kittatin- 

 yense. In places this lichen appears to have been devoured over 

 large areas, by insects or animals, only the holdfasts being left, 

 but this did not kill the plants, for all were sending out new 

 squamulose processes. 



The Pale Laurel, Kalmia glauca, is also common on this 

 mountaintop, associated with Chamaedaphne calyculata. Drosera 



