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mits of the Hudson Highlands. It has been collected southward 

 on the higher Appalachian Mountains, to North Carolina. 

 John W. Thomson, Jr., of the Department of Botany, Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, sent me some last summer from the vicinity 

 of Penns>-lvania State College, in the Allegheny Plateau. 



The Montague, N. J., colony is the most ample and robust 

 one I know in the Club range, with the sole exception of that 

 on Shinnecock Hills, L. I. Its survival is possibly due to the 

 fact that it is protected from forest fires, the clumps growing 

 on the open ledge which a fire in the surrounding hardwoods 

 could not reach. It was probably once more plentiful in the 

 Club range, but was killed by ground fires, except in spots 

 where open ledges, or beach or dune sands prevented fires from 

 spreading. The colonies on Shinnecock Hills have been reduced 

 in recent years by fires in grass mixed with the lichens. 



Raymond H. Torrey 



