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and youthful forest of oaks and pines. Crossing Barnegat Bay, 

 we spent the night in a tourist camp south of Tom'.s River on 

 United States Route 9. 



On the 19th, an early morning stop at Forked River gave 

 us another chance to observe several of the denizens of the bogs 

 we had seen so often the preceding day and to add to the ever- 

 mounting list of species of Lycopodium, Drosera, and Uiricu- 

 laria. At 11 :00 a.m. we met, at the intersection of Route 4 and 

 the Cedar Bridge road in Barnegat, a party from New Jersey 

 and New York coming down for the week-end. The augmented 

 party then struck westwards and was soon in the heart of The 

 Plains, stopping occasionally on the summit of a slight elevation 

 for a glimpse of the peculiar forest in which, as far as the eye 

 could see in every direction, the trees, although apparently very 

 old, did not greatly exceed an average of four feet in height. The 

 day's itinerary led us through the great commercial cranberry 

 producing areas and to Penn State Forest for lunch. After lunch 

 the investigation of a most colorful bog near the ghost town of 

 Martha led the party to acclaim Dr. Small as having "saved 

 the best unto the last," and the crackling and flashing of a 

 vigorous electric storm, accompanied by a torrential downpour 

 of rain, provided a dramatic ceremony to signalize our farewell 

 to the pine barrens. Through the rain and the heavy holiday 

 traffic seaward-bound, we made our way southwards to Cape 

 May for the night. 



A visit in the evening to Otway Brown led to Mr. Brown's 

 guiding us, on the morning of the 20th, to some of his favorite 

 collecting grounds nearby, where we recorded an amazingly 

 long list of grasses and sedges, and a few other novelties such 

 as Sclerolepis unifiora, Quercus phellos, and Linaria canadensis . 

 The party then officially broke up, the southern members start- 

 ing their long drive homewards, the others spending the day 

 more leisurely with stops at interesting spots as they traversed 

 the lesser distances they were required to travel. Pleasant mem- 

 ories of the four-day tour led the author to trust that these 

 intersectional visits may become traditional features of the two 

 Clubs' annual field schedules. 



An account of the first day of the trip by Dr. Fogg follows this. 



Earl L. Core 

 West Virginia University 

 morgantown 



