FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Joint Trip with the Southern Appalachian Botanical 



Club in Southern New Jersey, 



June 17-20, 1937 



The Torrey Botanical Club met with the southern botanists 

 at Pennsville, N. J ., on Thursday morning, (June 1 7) for a week- 

 end of investigation of the interesting southern New Jersey 

 flora. Under the guidance of Dr. John M. Fogg, Jr., Assistant 

 Professor of Botany and Curator of the Herbarium, University 

 of Pennsylvania, the group drove to Salem, where a stop was 

 made to observe the famous Charter oak, which was a large 

 tree when the Friend's Burial Ground was established beneath 

 it in 1676, and which has now attained a circumference, at six 

 feet from the ground, of 27 feet 8 inches, and a height of over 80 

 feet, while the crown spread is about 120 feet. Following the 

 brief stop here, the party motored to Elsinboro Point. In the 

 afternoon the party went on to a point on a sandy beach four 

 miles west of Hancock Bridge. Here Dr. Fogg and his party 

 from the University of Pennsylvania left the group. Dr. John 

 A. Small, Assistant Professor of Botany, New Jersey College 

 for Women, becoming the leader for the remainder of the trip. 

 At Parvin State Park, near Vineland, lodging had been arranged 

 through the courtesy of J. J. Truncer, of the Park's staff. 



Next morning the party struck northwards into the heart 

 of the famous pine barrens, following U. S. Route 206, a splen- 

 did concrete highway, through a virtually uninhabited region. 

 The first stop was made at Albertson Brook, in Atlantic County, 

 where, in the bogs that adjoined the highway. Dr. Small and 

 Dr. M. A. Chrysler, of Rutgers University, introduced novelties 

 among pine barren endemics and their associates so rapidly that 

 we were soon gasping for breath. Plants recorded here included 

 Ilex glabra, Magnolia virginiana, Chamaedaphne calyculata, 

 Chamaecyparis thyoides, Rhododendron vis co sum, Vaccinium 

 corymhosum, V . macrocarpon, Lyonia mariana, Krigia virginica, 

 Castalia odorata. Iris prismatica, and various species of Ryncho- 

 spora, Cyperus, Eriocaidon, and Lycopodium. Of special interest 

 were three species of sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, D. longifolia, 

 and D . filiformis ; pyxie or flowering moss, Pyxidanthera barbu- 



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