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headquarters at Kanohwahke Lakes, in the Harriman Park. An 

 interesting feature of plant Hfe at both Camp Nawakwa and 

 Camp Thendara, each on a new artificial lake, with shore lines 

 cut out of the forest, is the progressive adaptation to the new 

 shore of moisture loving plants which formerly grew in the swamp 

 now filled by the lake, and are now forced to move out to its 

 boundaries. 



Similar nature trails are proposed by Major W. A. Welch, 

 general manager of the Palisades Interstate Park, in the vicinity 

 of four new over-night shelters which he will build on the trails 

 laid out during the past six years by volunteer workers from the 

 New York City walking clubs in the Harriman Park. 



WALKING WITH AN OBJECT 



Forty Wild Flowers Worth Hunting 

 Norman Taylor 



For nearly a hundred years nature enthusiasts have collected 

 plants within the vicinity of New York, and many of these 

 specimens have found their way into the herbarium of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, which is at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, and into that of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The 

 latter collections have been studied with a view to publishing a 

 "Flora of- Long Island," to be issued by the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, as soon as more field work has been completed. 



The work of John Torrey in the local area resulted in his pub- 

 lishing in 1819 a "Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously 

 Within Thirty Miles of the City of New York," now a very rare 

 book. Many of the specimens upon which he based that work 

 are scarce in the region. In 1915 the writer's "Flora of 

 the Vicinity of New York" was published by the New York 

 Botanical Garden. This attempted to bring together all the 

 old records, specimens and notes, and perhaps its greatest weak- 

 ness is that much of it necessarily had to be based on specimens 

 collected long ago. Some of the local plants are in any case rare. 

 Some may be merely undetected from particular localities. 

 Others are uncommon in some parts of the area, but common 

 elsewhere. Much remains to be done in increasing our know- 

 ledge of the present distribution of local wild flowers. A distinct 



