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birds were obseiNcd; a rihljon black snake cauKlU; green 

 pickerel frog, wood frog and spotted salamander eggs were col- 

 lected, also adult red-backed and dusky salamanders. The prize 

 capture was a snapping turtle which weighed between 25-30 

 lbs. (for evidence see author's snapshots). 



Evening programs were most interesting. Friday e\ening 

 Mr. Louis Anderson showed his own splendid hand-colored in- 

 sect and flower slides and some natural color slides. After a 

 strenuous day on Saturday we relaxed to hear Dr. Perkins, 

 Zoologist of the Second Byrd Expedition, show his motion 

 pictures accompanied by an entertaining and educational talk. 



Eleanor Friend 



Trip of May 8 



Twenty-ti\"e members and guests of the club and members 

 of the Newark Museum Nature Club, under the leadership of 

 the president of the latter club, Mr. Louis \A'. Anderson, enjoyed 

 a warm spring day in the limestone country northeast of An- 

 dover, Sussex County, N. J. Mr. Anderson's chief objectives 

 were Cypripedium parviflorum and C. reginae in wet woods 

 around a lake east of route 31, a mile north of Andover. The 

 season was late so no flowers, but plenty of plants of the former 

 and a few of the latter were seen. Mrs. Rodda of Palmerton, Pa. 

 showed us another station for both these orchids in the swamp 

 southwest of Springdale. Orchis spectahilis was found in bloom 

 near a small spring on the west side of the swamp, and in bud 

 elsewhere, one clump containing a dozen plants. 



A shrub new to some of the party, rare in the Hudson Val- 

 ley, but commoner in Sussex County, was the Prickly Ash or 

 Toothache Tree, Xanthoxylum americanum, in an old hedge 

 along a farm road southwest of Springdale. It was in bloom, with 

 the pinnate leaves just expanding. At the same point was one 

 of the finest things seen during the day, a shallow pond filled 

 with thousands of the flowering spadices of the Golden Club, 

 Orontiiim aquaticiim. 



Other plants not often seen in our range were Clematis 

 verticillaris , two plants in blossom on a limestone knoll north of 

 Andover and the Globe Flower, Trollius laxus, a large blooming 

 colony in a swamp north of Greendell. 



Raymond H. Torrey 



