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ches of the liverwort, Bazzania. Around the pond the shrubby 

 growth whose roots seemed to be the support of the bog, was 

 mostly leather leaf, Chamaedaphne calyculata, with a little pale 

 laurel, Kalmia polifolia, and high-bush huckleberry. Growing 

 in the sphagnum there was an abundance of pitcher plants, rang- 

 ing from seedlings with leaves less than an inch long to mature 

 plants, many of them a deep red in color. Near the edge of the 

 bog were some large patches of the trailing club moss, Lycopo- 

 dium complanatum , with it the more erect tree club moss, L. 

 ohscurum dendroideum on somewhat higher ground and the bog 

 club moss, L. inundatum, on the lower, damper ground. Here 

 and there were small patches of the shining club moss, L. luci- 

 diilum. Where there were rock outcrops the ledges were fringed 

 with the polypod fern, throughout the woods were quantities of 

 the marginal and intermediate fern, splendid plants of the 

 Christmas fern bordered the paths, some, approaching the vari- 

 ety Schweinitzii, had fertile fronds that measured 36 inches, the 

 sterile over 24 inches. Several plants of Botrychium ohliguum 

 and a few of the variety dissectum were found. The three Os- 

 mundas and the hay-scented fern were noted, but all brown and 

 withered as was the common brake, the latter with stipes bent 

 over and crushed. 



For those who had been on the trip the week before it was 

 interesting to observe nearly all the goldenrods observed that 

 time, excepting Solidago tenuijolia and ulmifolia and to add the 

 ragged goldenrod, S. squarrosa, the broad-leaved goldenrod, 

 S. latifolia, and the large-leafed, S. mdcrophylla. 



George T. Hastings 



Hook Mountain Excursion, November 3 

 Four members of the club, undaunted by a day of frequent 

 heavy gusts of rain, made the excursion from Congers to Nyack, 

 along the short of the Hudson, on Sunday, November 3. The 

 route between the lower landing of the Hook Mountain section 

 of the Palisades Interstate Park, under the beetling Verdreitege 

 Hook, to North Nyack, was over great masses of trap talus, 

 some original and unaltered by man, some left when the quar- 

 ries were abandoned ten years ago. Only a few plants remained 

 in bloom, those noted including Helianthus decapeialus, Aster 



