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with inviting names. But today the Pitch Pine fills the streets, 

 covering up the scars, persisting in spite of the axe, fire and 

 farming. 



As the group followed the sand roads, there was ample 

 evidence that the Barrens are still a retreat for wilderness 

 lovers. 



Buds of the following were studied: Clethra alnifolia, Nyssa 

 sylvatica, Magnolia virginiana, Azalea viscosa, Rhus vernix, 

 Lyonia mariana, Vaccinium corymhosum, Comptonia aspleni- 

 folia, Sassafras officinalis. 



In low sandy ground the evergreen clumps of Xerophyllum 

 asphodeloides were noted. Where the water table was just below 

 the level of the ground Kalmia angustifolia and Chamaedaphne 

 calyculata blanketed large meadows. In favorably exposed 

 places the first buds of Pyxidanthera harhulata showed white. 

 Blueberry buds were swelling; red maples opened to show their 

 stamens and the buds of sweet bay had waxed fat with the 

 lengthening days. 



Lichens of the genus Cladonia had not reached maturity. 

 Cladonia papillaria podetia appeared as whitish dots on the 

 grayish green thallus. C. verticillata, calycayitha, fimhriata and 

 a new form of caroliniana, probably prolifera, were encountered 

 in a cedar swamp. The tar-like patches covering the bare sand 

 everywhere in the Barrens are a lichen, Lecidea uliginosa, later 

 covered by sessile apothecia no larger than pinheads. 



It seemed hardly possible that in the midst of such perfect 

 isolation we were only 70 miles from New York. 



George F. Dillmann 



Field Trip of Saturday, April 18, to Site of 

 Dr. John Torrey's Home, Palisades, N. Y. 



About twenty members of the Torrey Botanical Club en- 

 joyed an unusual field trip on Saturday-, April 18, to Palisades, 

 Rockland County, N. Y., to visit the site of the home occupied 

 by Dr. John Torrey, about 1858, above the Palisades cliffs 

 south of Sneden's Landing. This interesting excursion was 

 offered through the hospitality of Mrs. Robert C. Hill, member 

 of the club and active in the Garden Club of America, whose 

 country home, Niederhurst, adjoins the estate of Thomas W. 

 Lamont, which includes "Torrey's Cliff," above which stood 



