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by Dr. Chrysler and his associates at the University, the party 

 found Chamaccyparis, some of large size; Sarraccnia, Droscra ro- 

 tundifolia, Magnolia inrginiana, Disporiim lanugmosuni, and Nyni- 



phaca uiicrophylla. 



Field Trip of June 16 



Interesting Plants on the x\pPALAcniAN Trail on 

 KiTTATiNY Mountain, New Jersey 



Three interesting plants were observed by a party including 

 members of the Torrey Botanical Club, which was scouting for 

 the location of the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, on 

 Kittatiny Mountain, in Sussex County, Xew Jersey, on Sunday, 

 June 1 6. 



In an extensive rhododendron swamp, between two crests of the 

 ridge, six miles southwest of Culver Gap, was found Red Spruce, 

 which added another stand, in my knowledge, of this northern 

 tree, which occurs in a few high cold swamps in the northern New 

 Jersey and Orange County, Xew York, highlands. Another north- 

 ern plant, common enough at low altitudes in northern New Eng- 

 land and at high altitudes in the Catskills, but very rare in the 

 vicinity of New York City, was Cornus canadensis, the Bunch- 

 berry, which has been reported before in Sussex County. It grew 

 in dense shade of hemlocks and did not seem very thrifty, and 

 was not blooming or showing any signs of bloom, but some of the 

 stems had developed a second whorl of two or three leaves above 

 the usual one of five or six. Apparently it was spreading, if at 

 all, only by root growth. 



Along the dirt road on the southeastern foot of the mountain 

 for more than a mile, two to three miles south of the state highway 

 from Branchville, past Culver Lake, through Culver Gap to Ding- 

 man's Ferry on the Delaware River, we found a plant which I had 

 seen only once before, the Indian Physic, Portcranthiis trifoliatiis, 

 the previous location being about ten miles northeast on the eastern 

 foot of this ridge. It was numerous and thrifty with many blos- 

 soms, along the stone walls and fences beside the road. I note that 

 Norman Taylor in his Flora of the vicinity of New York, says it is 

 rare in the Highlands of the Hudson, but found in Sussex, Warren, 



