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monuck or Fresh Pond, the eastern end of which is still open, 

 but the western half is filling up with sand blowing from 

 Napeague Harbor, which has shallowed the kettle so that swamp 

 vegetation is filling it up, leaving a few small open pools here 

 and there. 



The blowing dune is reached at the west end of the kettle 

 area, where its southern limb is moving into the depression. The 

 dune is roughly crescentic, and most active on its south and 

 north limbs, where trees 30 to 50 feet high are being rapidly 

 covered and killed. There was a brisk westerly wind and grains 

 of sand were blowing down the front of the dune, in copious 

 quantities, visibly covering the leaves on the forest floor as we 

 watched. On days of strong wind, the toe of the dune must ad- 

 vance some inches, and some of the trees had obviously been 

 covered several feet deep around their bases during the present 

 season. 



In the center of the crescentic dune, the advance seems to 

 be slowed up a bit and there is a little island of pitch pine and 

 bearberry, and patches of Cladonia Boryi and sylvatica, and bits 

 of probable kettle remains, with sour gum, holly, and green- 

 briar, which seems to have escaped burying by the blowing sand. 



After an exhilarating swim, in the warm, calm water, on the 

 North shore, we moved along eastward, at the foot of the mo- 

 raine bluffs. Large, healthy looking colonies of Ammodenia pep- 

 loides grew thickly on this strand. An interesting exotic was the 

 Chinese rose, Rosa rugosa, which has been established in many 

 places on Montauk Point, possibly by the floating of its large 

 hips from some cultivated stand of the species on the Connect- 

 icut or Rhode Island shore. Its large handsome flowers and 

 immense hips, as big as small tomatoes, make it a striking plant. 



Boulders of New England granite, on the top of the bluffs, 

 proved to have an interesting flora of crustose lichens, including 

 Rinodina oreina, which is an inhabitant of hilltops in the High- 

 lands of the Hudson, and seemed odd a few feet above sea level; 

 Lecanora melanaspis and cinerea, and Biatorella clavus. Some of 

 us had a pleasant visit with Mr. Edward Vail, a fisherman, and 

 his wife, who were pleased at our interest in the lichens on their 

 big boulder. They are friends of Roy Latham, of Orient, who 

 wrote an account of the Flora of the Town of Southold, L. L, 

 which appeared in Torreya about 15 years ago. 



