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usual flowering time. The flowers found were five species of 

 Aster (cordifolius, ericoides, longifolius villicaulis , muUifiorus and 

 tardiflorus), five golden-rods {Solidago hicolor, caesia, juncea, 

 latifolia and rugosa), common daisy, dandelion, fleabane {Erig- 

 eron annuus), yarrow, pepper grass (Lepidium virginicum) , red 

 and alsike clovers, Queen Ann's lace, buttercup, Deptford pink, 

 self heal, rocket (Hesperis Matronalis), and witch hazel. Most 

 of the witch hazels had finished blossoming but a few of the 

 shrubs were well covered with flowers. On all of them the seeds 

 had been discharged from the fruits. Many other wild seeds 

 and fruits were noted, one new to several of the party was the 

 blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) which was abundant 

 on one hillside. 



George T. Hastings 



douglaston to hollis, november 16 



Twenty-three members of the Torrey Botanical Club, New 

 York Microscopical Club and guests enjoyed a brilliant fall 

 afternoon, in a ramble across the hills and hollows and among 

 the kettle hole depressions and ponds of the terminal moraine 

 of the Glacial Period, in Queens Borough, Between Douglaston 

 and Hollis, on Saturday, Nov. 16. The route was via Alley 

 Pond, across the moraine to its front north of Creedmoor, then 

 westward along the front to Hollis. 



The water in many of the kettle hole ponds had evaporated 

 in the summer's drought, and much of the water vegetation 

 which is so interesting in spring and early summer was stranded 

 on the dry bottoms, but still persistent in exsiccated forms. In 

 the well known Potamogeton Pond, north of Queens Village, 

 Potamogeton natans was prostrate on the wet turf and hard to 

 find, but Riccia natans, notable in its floating state when the 

 kettle hole is watered, was still plentiful on the soil. Peltandra 

 virginica and Isnardia paliistris were also stranded, but evidently 

 ly not worried at all, sure that the water would be back again 

 in the spring. 



In the examination of a dozen or more of the kettle hole 

 ponds, along the eastern edge of the Queens woods close to the 

 Nassau County line, from Alley Pond toward Creedmoor, and 

 westward just back of the outer slope of the moraine past 



