bad forest fire on the Ramapo Rampart, four miles northeast 

 of Suffern, and had to leave the trail and make a rough detour, 

 skirting the ground fire, which was burning fiercely uphill, 

 defying the efforts of a small group of fire fighters to stop it. 

 It was not stopped until the next day, when a large force of 

 men from the Palisades Interstate Park joined the town forces 

 and extinguished it on a two-mile front at Conklin Meadow, 

 west of the Rampart. It burned over 1800 acres, and it was 

 lamentable to see what damage such a blaze does to succulent 

 spring flowers, like Cypripedium acaule, charring them to death 

 for the season and probably permanently killing many indi- 

 viduals. 



Members who joined the Adirondack Mountain Club for a 

 week end at Camp Nawakwa, on Lake Sebago, in the Harriman 

 Park, May 26-27, found the Pinxter Flower, Rhododendrum 

 nudiflorum, in its prime, and observed that it appears to be 

 increasing everywhere in the more remote portions of the pre- 

 serve. An interesting plant associated with the Uvularias, which 

 is overlooked in most popular manuals, but is common in 

 colonies of considerable size, in the Ramapos and Highlands of 

 the Hudson, was Disporum lanuginosum. 



The following is a brief report of the field trip of the Torrey 

 Club to Bay Terrace, Staten Island, April 29. There were 

 fifteen in the party, of which eight were members of the Torrey 

 Club. The trip started from the railroad station going westward 

 through the woods and turning north through the outskirts of 

 a cemetery. Here the American Bittern was seen in a swamp. 

 Still proceeding northward, the party saw the Yellow Palm 

 Warbler, and the Rusty Blackbird, the latter with whitish 

 circles around his eyes, and white spots on the wings. Coming 

 out on the Richmond Turnpike, the bus took the members 

 directly to the ferry. The woody plants on the attached list 

 were seen on the trip. 



Woody Plants Seen Near Bay Terrace 

 April 29, 1928 

 Vaccinium corymbosum Corylus americana 



" vacillans Rhododendron nudiflorum 



Amelanchier canadensis " viscosum 



(in bloom) Smilax rotundifolia 



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