FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Tkii' of June 13 to Kcho Lake, N. J. 



Seven members and three guests were present on this trip. 

 The interesting associations along the railroad tracks and ad- 

 joining woods at Charlottesburg were studied and then the 

 territory adjacent to Echo Lake. Kanouse Mountain was 

 climbed and on its summit Dr. B. T. Butler gave a most inter- 

 esting and instructixe talk on the geology of the region, pointing 

 out the remarkable character of the Green Pond conglomerate 

 (Silurian age) which makes up this and one adjacent ridge, sur- 

 rounded on all sides by ridges of Archean rock. Two hundred 

 and forty species of wild plants were identified, including such 

 interesting ones as Comandra umhellata, Melampyrum lineare 

 var. latifolinm, Cynthia virginica, Gratiola neglecta, Gillenia tri- 

 foliata, Angelica villosa, Asclepias quadrifolia, Asplenium platy- 

 neuron, Cornus rugosa, C. foemina, Corylus cornuta, Callitriche 

 Austini, Silene antirrhina, Equisetum sylvaticum, Cryptotaenia 

 canadensis, Diervilla lonicera, Dioscorea villosa, Radicula pa- 

 lustris, Galium verum, Galium boreale, Panicum Bicknellii, Trago- 

 pogon pratensis, and Thalesia uniflora. 



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Trip of June 25 to 28 to Gatlinburg, Tenn. 



Friday morning, the group participating in the botanical 

 foray were taken by Park officials from Gatlinburg to Green- 

 brier where the cars were left at the Great Smoky Mountains 

 Hiking Club cabin. The trip for the day consisted of a nine 

 mile hike over the new Greenbrier-Brushy Mountain Nature 

 Trail which is being developed through the cooperation of the 

 Botany Department of the University of Tennessee, the 

 Hiking Club, and the Naturalist Service of the Park. This 

 Nature Trail is unique in that it does not attempt to teach the 

 names of plants and facts about them by labels, but has as its 

 purpose the interpretation of the landscape as dynamic. This 

 is attempted by a guidebook of about 25,000 words which, 

 after laying a brief background in local geology, physiography, 

 vegetation, plant geography, and ecology, describes eleven dif- 

 ferent vegetation types at stations along the trail. The trail 

 itself is marked only by numbered posts, one at each station, 



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