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After luncheon we proceeded southward and within three 

 miles came to typical pine barren with lonoctis linearifolia, 

 Aster spectahilis, and Solidago odora, the most conspicuous 

 flowers. In little sandy pockets of boggy ground the sphagnum 

 was dotted with sundew, cranberry and the dried fruit stalks 

 of Utricidaria, — Lycopodium Chapmanii with its creeping stalk 

 and upright straw colored fruiting branches making diminutive 

 sentinels in these tiny patches of bog. On the higher ground 

 pitch pine, scrub oak, black and post oak competed for the 

 scanty nourishment in the white sand, the underbrush consist- 

 ing almost entirely of sweet fern and sheep laurel with dried 

 fronds of the eagle fern filling almost every open spot. 



Then a trip of five miles westward brought us through an 

 old cedar swamp with sweet bay, climbing azalea, Pieris and 

 high bush huckleberry thickets to a particularly heavy tangle 

 with sphagnum, pitch pine, cranberries and one large patch of 

 the locally abundant climbing fern, Lygodium palmatum, as 

 the principal attraction. This particular station for the climbing 

 fern was reported by Rev. Samuel Lockwood about seventy 

 years ago, relocated by the undersigned about thirty years ago 

 and then left to its own devices until this fall. Meantime the 

 size of the stand has apparently decreased due to encroachment 

 of heavy thickets of maple and tall shrubs on what was origi- 

 nally low bushes and sphagnum bogs. Miss Wyckoff reported 

 that a friend of hers has found the same species of climbing fern 

 at still another station further east near Asbury Avenue, south 

 of Scobyviile. This would be a good place to search out in an- 

 other trip as in that same general neighborhood the southern 

 mistletoe has been gathered within the past generation and is 

 probably still there, possibly constituting the most northern 

 station still extant of this plant. Heavier showers of rain coming 

 about three o'clock after we had gazed our fill on the climbing 

 fern dampened our ardor for any further exploring that day. 



Form AN T. McLean 



Field Trip of October 13 



Twenty members and friends made the trip to the Delaware 

 Water Gap. Colonies of three uncommon ferns were visited, 

 the rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis), mountain spleenwort 



