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The woods about the pits were rather moist and largely com- 

 posed of oak and maple with considerable underbrush. A few 

 small trees of the Jersey pine, Pinus virginiana Mill., were found. 

 Here were found the following plants: Botrychium dissectum 

 Spreng.; Panicum dichotomum L.; Panicum cladestinum L.; 

 Panicum linearifoUum Scribn. ; Panicum sphaerocarpon Ell. ; 

 the strawberry-bush, Euonymus americanus L.; Viola Brittoniana 

 Pollard; the cowbane, Oxypolis rigidius (L.) Coult. & Rose; the 

 sweet pepperbush, Clethra alnifolia L.; spotted prince's pine, 

 Chimaphila maculata (L.) Pursh; the pinesap, Hypopitys Hypo- 

 pitys (L.) Small; Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora L.; Cuscuta 

 gronovii Willd.; cowwheat, Melampyrum lineare Lam.; beech- 

 drops, Leptamnium virginianum (L. Raf.), purple and yellowish 

 plants, and lonactis linariifolius (L.) Greene, the sandpaper 

 starwort, with blue and white rays. 



Continuing our journey along the road, we soon passed through 

 Kreischerville, where by the roadside was found Dr. Torrey's 

 old variety ohtusilohata of the sensitive fern, the variety here 

 arising by the cutting of the early sterile fronds by a scythe. We 

 finally reached Tottenville, where we rambled over the beach, 

 while waiting for a late train to bear us back to the heart of the 

 metropolis. The plants noted here were the rockweed, Fuciis 

 vesiculosus L., and sea lettuce, Ulva latissima Lam., and the sea- 

 beach orache, A triplex arenaria Nutt. A small cultivated tree 

 of paper mulberry, Papyrius papyrifera (L.) Ktze., was found. 

 The result of this trip was a large vasculum and portfolio crammed 

 full of plants, representatives of about 120 species, 33 of which I 

 had never seen growing in their native habitats. 



My second visit was on as auspicious a day as the first, the 

 29th of May, 1902. I went over practically the same ground as 

 on the previous trip; although the spring flora was not as 

 interesting, yet I felt repaid for the effort. The red cedars along 

 Huguenot Avenue had suffered quite severely from the ice-storm 

 of the preceding winter. The Carolina dwarf dandelion, Krigia 

 virginica (L.) Willd., was the most conspicuous flower in bloom, 

 abundant everywhere and appearing as a weed in meadows. 

 The trumi)c1 honeysuckle was in full bloom; and flowering and 



