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excursion: Dr. and Mrs. Douglass, Dr. Rydberg and Mr. Wilson, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Diamant, Mr. Beal, Mrs. Scholl, Professor Kern, 

 Mr. Adams, and the writer. 



The party from New York City left Hoboken at 2:20 P. M. 

 on Tuesday and arrived at Water Gap at 4:25 P. M., where they 

 were joined by the others from State College, Pennsylvania. 

 We made our headquarters at the Forest House, very centrally 

 located and convenient to both train and trolley. 



The first excursion, beginning at 8:30 Wednesday morning, 

 was to the west along Cherry Valley as far as Wildcat Glen, 

 returning by the ridge road and reaching the hotel at one o'clock. 

 A particularly fine collection of rusts on red cedar was secured, 

 five species of Gymnosporangiiim being found on a single tree. 



In the afternoon, we visited Island Park, a very low island 

 about twelve acres in extent, in the Delaware River, and made 

 a rather careful survey of the plants on the island, including 

 all the trees; besides visiting the eastern shore of the river. 

 We were particularly impressed with the large number of trees 

 of the black birch, Betula nigra, found on this island. The 

 excursion on Thursday morning began on the west side of the 

 river on the cliffs toward Mt. Minsi, and, after reaching Eureka 

 Falls, we returned along the river bank and took a motor boat 

 down the river through the Gap and landed on the New Jersey 

 side at the foot of Mt. Tammany. Return was made by way of 

 Dunniield Creek and we recrossed the river at the upper ferry 

 opposite Island Park. This excursion included a gieat variety 

 of soils and exposures and yielded rich returns. . 



In the afternoon, we went by trolley over the mountains to 

 the north of Water Gap to Stroudsburg and thence by another 

 trolley to East Stroudsburg, where some intensive collecting 

 in an open grove by the riverside added greatly to our list of 

 plants, especially to the fungi. Shortly before five o'clock, 

 Professor Kern and Mr. Adams left for Scranton and we returned 

 on the 5:15 train, reaching New York City in about two hours. 



The season was quite backward and few of the fleshy fungi 

 had appeared. Without giving attention to the minute forms 

 on dead sticks and leaves, 81 species of fungi were secured and 



