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Springdale. This overhanging ledge borders on a bog, somewhat 

 similar to the extensive bog-center of Muckshaw Swamp, lying 

 a short distance to the southwest. Here were pitcher plants, 

 cranberries, Eriophonim viridi-carinatum , the curious native 

 buckbean {Menyanthes trifoliata var. minor), dwarf birch {Betula 

 pumila), bog willow (Salix pedicellaris var. hypoglauca), and 

 numerous plants of Carex seorsa, one of the most infrequent 

 members of the Stellulatae group. A small pond, lying between 

 the bog and the Springdale road, filled with the golden spikes of 

 Orontium, showed also small patches of the yellow Cow-lily 

 {Nymphozanthus advena), and its shores were lined by clumps of 

 Carex diandra, a northern species of wet calcareous habitat. 

 Orontium itself shows the most amazing diversity of habitat; 

 being equally at home in the acidic pine barrens of New Jersey, 

 the dense swamps of Georgia, in shallow streams of the Cumber- 

 land Mountains, and in the marly ponds of western New Jersey. 

 Toward its existence the enormously deep roots are probably 

 the most important contributor. 



With the owner's permission, we later visited the extensive 

 Muckshaw Swamp, with a few clumps of the showy ladies' 

 slipper {Cypripedium reginae) still to be seen, and an abundance 

 of yellow ladies' slippers, both large and small-flowered. Flowers 

 of the small variety, confined to wet swampy places, were oc- 

 casionally found to have a delicious fragrance. At the margin of 

 one of the numerous embayments we saw again, as we had found 

 it in the previous year, the splendid stand of Goldie's Fern, and 

 the luxuriant plants representing a natural hybrid between this 

 species and the marginal shield fern. 



To the list of plants observed in 1935 at the "Pines" by Dr. 

 Moldenke may be added : Marchantia polymorpha, Carex cepha- 

 lophora, C. convoluta, C. amphibola C. oligocarpa, C. Backii, C. 

 laxiculmis, C. laxiflora, C. histricina. Polygonatum puhescens, 

 Staphylea trifolia, Quercus rubra, Krigia amplexicaulia , Car da- 

 mine pennsylvanica. 



Henry K. Svenson 



Trip of June 20 to Englewood Cliffs 



A small group went through the woods on the Palisades and 

 along the brook to a swamp. Besides the usual plants of such 



