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D. pedicularia, with its fine cut leaves and foliaceous calyx 

 lobes. 



Along the margin of Torne Pond, which had been raised 

 two or three feet by a new beaver dam at the outlet and lowered 

 in this summer's drought so that much muddy shore was ex- 

 posed, interesting water plants were the Water Shield, Brasenia 

 Schreberi, stranded in some places and floating in others; 

 the Marsh Purslane, Isnardia palustris, stranded in the mud, 

 and Linear-leaved Willows-herb, Epilohiiim linear e. Clethra 

 alnifolia was in full bloom and pleasant with its strong, spicy 

 odor. 



Fungi were scarce, owing to the long drought, and likewise 

 parasitic plants like Indian Pipe and Coral root, which were 

 much harder to find than normally in these woods at this sea- 

 son. 



Along the shore of the Hudson, the Purple Loosestrife 

 Lythruni salicaria was in its usual striking display in mid- 

 August. Upland occurences were found in the bottom of a 

 dried up pond in the Bear Mountain nature trail area, and in 

 a springy spot along the road leading up from Fort Montgomery. 

 I have usually regarded the displays of this plant in the brackish 

 marshes along the Hudson, between Stony Point and Pough- 

 keepsie or higher, as the most resplendent, but in coming down 

 from the Catskills, by automobile, via the Rondout and Wall- 

 kill valleys, on the morning of the 18th, I saw larger expanses 

 along those streams and in meadows in Orange County, ten 

 miles west of the Hudson, which were the most glorious in 

 massed purple that I have ever seen. With Ironweed and 

 Boneset, these meadows made gorgeous color combinations. 



Raymond H. Torre y 



NEWS NOTES 



The Mediterranean fruit fly has been much in the news- 

 papers since it was discovered in Florida in April of this year. 

 With an appropriation of $5,000,000 Dr. Marlatt, Chief of 

 the United States Plant Quarentine and Control Administra- 

 tion, organized an army of five thousand to wage a war of 

 extermination. Their reports are encouraging, the spread of 

 the fly has apparently been checked and in the regions of greatest 

 infestation it has become difficult to find a specimen of the fly 



