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revival of interest among members of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 as well as many walking and outdoor clubs makes it timely to 

 prepare the following list of plants. Only rare or interesting 

 species are listed and they are needed from the regions men- 

 tioned. Weeds are naturally omitted, but any others may be 

 collected and sent to the writer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 or to the Herbarium of the Torrey Botanical Club, New York 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York City. They will be 

 added to the collections at either institution and form the basis 

 of new and much desired records of our local plants. 



It is unnecessary to emphasize here that this proposal does not 

 mean the indiscriminate collection of any plant in the area. And 

 those to whom it is addressed need no reminding that one com- 

 plete specimen is all that should be picked. We must not, in our 

 desire to extend the knowledge of local plants, indirectly align 

 ourselves with those who 'love nature' so much that they carry 

 a good bit of it home with them. 



Wild Plants Worth Collecting 

 From the region most popular among local hikers 



In the following list will be given the common and Latin names 

 of the plants, a brief description of them, the counties from which 

 they are particularly desired, and their approximate flowering 

 period. The region most favored by the different hiking organ- 

 izations of the metropolitan area is as follows: Westchester, Put- 

 nam Dutchess, Greene, Ulster, Orange, and Rockland Counties 

 in New York and Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Morris, Warren and 

 Sussex Counties in New Jersey. 

 Blazing star. Chamaelirium luteum. An herb of medium 



height, with long narrow leaves, and small white flowers in a 



terminal raceme. From Dutchess and Orange Counties, 



New York, southward. June. 

 White adder's-tongue. Erythronium albidum. Resembling the 



common dog's-tooth violet, but the flowers white. Warren 



and Bergen Counties in New Jersey and Rockland County in 



New York. April. 

 White Clintonia. Clintonia umbellulata. Somewhat like the 



common yellow species, but with erect white flowers in a close 



cluster. Essex County in New Jersey, and vicinity: very rare. 



June. 



