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State Chapter has always tried to foster the spirit that each 

 generation has inherited a bountiful gift of nature, a gift which 

 should be accepted in guardian spirit. We are the trustees of the 

 world's resources, be they birds, animals, minerals or plants, and 

 as trustees we should spend wisely and should not squander or 

 waste; much less should we rob posterity of the blessings which 

 we now enjoy. 



The Pennsylvania State Chapter has many ambitious plans 

 for the future, plans for the establishment of a prize-fund for 

 flower-conservation essays in the high schools of Pennsylvania, 

 the instituting of popular, non-technical botanical expeditions 

 to study the rich mountain flora surrounding the college and 

 various other useful projects. During the organization of the 

 chapter the writer was elected to the office of secretary. His 

 recent affiliation with the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture has placed the burden of the active work of the chapter 

 on the willing shoulders of the professor of botany of the Penn- 

 sylvania State College, under whose able leadership the organi- 

 zation should prosper and flourish. 



List of Pexxsylvaxia Plants Urgently in Need of 



Protection 



All wild lilies, arbutus, bluebells (Mertensia), bird' s-ioot violet, 

 bunchberry, bloodroot, blue-eyed grass, columbine, cardinal- 

 flower, cowslip, cat-tail, clintonia, Dutchman's breeches, dog's- 

 tooth violet, fringed gentian, flowering dog\vood, fringed milk- 

 wort, ground pines, hepatica, iris, jack-in-the-pulpit, mountain 

 honeysuckle (Azalea), maiden-hair fern, mountain laurel, nanny- 

 berry, painted cup, pink lady's slipper, pitcher plant, rhododen- 

 dron, sweet bay, showy orchis, spring beauty, star flower, spice- 

 bush, trillium, twayblade, various ferns, water lily, wild pink, 

 wintergreen, wind flower (rue anemone), wood anemone, wild 

 strawberry, w^interberry, wild geranium (cranesbill), walking 

 fern, yellow lady's slipper, yellow pond lily, yellow star grass, 

 yellow fringed orchid. 



