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When placed in six hours' extra hght (furnished by a single looo- 

 watt bulb) both cuttings and seedlings showed practically no 

 tendency to form storage roots, and the tops continued to grow 

 without forming flower buds. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Arthir H. Gr.wes, 



Secretary. 



March Field Meeting 



The field meetings of the Torrey Botanical Club for the 1928 

 season were begun with an excursion on Sunday. March 4, along 

 Hook Mountain, on the west shore of the Hudson, between 

 Rockland Lake Landing and Haverstraw, under the leadership 

 of Raymond H. Torrey, chairman of the field committee for this 

 year. The party numbered thirty-one of whom six were mem- 

 bers of the Torrey Club, the others being members of the Green 

 Mountain Club, Adirondack Mountain Club, Inkowa Outdoor 

 Club, and Paterson Ramblers. 



Warm weather earlier in the week had given hopes for signs 

 of spring, but the day of the excursion was below freezing in 

 temperature, and the leaf and flower buds were halting in 

 progress. Skunk cabbage had blossomed a few^ days before and 

 even the leaves were unfolding but the spathes were again frozen. 

 The leaf and flower buds of the red-berried elder, Sambucus 

 racemosa, which is a common shrub on the steep outer front of 

 Hook Mountain, as on the Palisades of which it is a continu- 

 ation, were beginning to unfold for its early blooming. 



The party found the rocky shore at the foot of the low cliff of 

 red sandstone, below the contact between it and the overlying 

 diabase, interesting for the variety of glacial boulders, represent- 

 ing northern New York and New England formations. One of 

 the horizontal partings of the sandstone displayed what appeared 

 to be the casts of marine worm burrows. A historical feature 

 was the landing place of Major John Andre to meet Benedict 

 Arnold, in the plot for the delivery of West Point. 



