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The synopsis at the beginning of the book says that it "is 

 written for those who may wish to read it but with the horti- 

 culturist and garden-lover particularly in mind." The book 

 will probably be of little help to professional botanists, but the 

 fact that it is written by Dr. Bailey is enough to guarantee the 

 reader a few pleasant hours. Possibly, too, it may help to 

 allay the irritation often felt by naturalists and botanists at the 

 frequent changes in scientific names, especially where a name 

 familiar because of long use is changed to something entirely 

 unfamiliar. 



George T. Hastings 



FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 

 Wawayanda Cedar Swamp, March 26 



A late touch of winter, with four inches of wet snow, on the 

 field trip of Sunday, March 26th, on the Appalachian Trail from 

 the Unknown Pond, on Bearfort Mountain, to Wawayanda 

 Cedar Swamp, delayed members in reaching the rendezvous so 

 that the entire party was never joined during the day. One 

 automobile party which tried to reach the meeting point at the 

 dam of the new "Upper Greenwood Lake," broke down, and 

 their car was not rescued until several days later. The Warwick 

 party headed by Mr. R. R. Goodlatte, spent the afternoon 

 building a new log bridge on the Appalachian Trail across Long- 

 house Creek, which will be helpful when the trip is repeated in 

 the fall. 



Another section, arriving late after skidding off the muddy 

 and snowy dirt road from Newfoundland to Moe, was warned by 

 a friendly filling station man not to attempt to get in to the dam, 

 so they did not, but followed the old road through the swamp, 

 west three miles, and then returned to the Moe- Warwick road 

 via the relocated section of the Appalachian Trail, which in- 

 cludes several huge hemlocks, and tall and dense stands of 

 rhododendron. A number of lichens were found, including 

 Parmelia physodes, common in the north, rare in this latitude, 

 but rather plentiful in this high cold swamp ; Cetraria lacunosa 

 and viridis, Nephromopsis ciliaris, Pertusaria velata and com- 

 munis, Ramalina calicaris, var . fraxinea ; and several Cladonias, 

 most interesting being C. incrassata, and C. caespiticia, found 



