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sion of the Torrey Botanical Club, and New York Section of 

 the Green Mountain Club, including also members of the New 

 York and Brooklyn Entomological Societies, and the Yosians. 

 Twenty eight were present. The route was from Douglaston, 

 along the edge of the salt meadows, to Alley Pond, up the 

 valley sapped in the moraine by a spring brook, through the 

 kettle hole moraine area to Hillside Park and to Hollis. 



The most striking flower display was the colony of Golden 

 Club, Orontium aquaticum, in Potamogeton Pond, north of 

 Queens Village. There were hundreds of the golden spadices, 

 in the height of bloom, a splendid sight in the slanting light of 

 the afternoon sun. This is certainly the largest and perhaps the 

 only remaining station for this plant within the limits of Greater 

 New York. Riccia nutans which was found by members of a 

 Torrey Botanical Club party last November, in this pond, then 

 dried up, in its terrestrial state on the moist turf, had not reap- 

 peared in its floating form. Slum cicutaefolium was plentiful 

 mixed among the Golden Club. 



An interesting plant, not common in the vicinity of New 

 York City, was Duchesnea indica, the Indian Strawberry, near 

 Alley Pond. Another adventive, which caused discussion, be- 

 cause of a suggestion of sumac about it, though this was dis- 

 pelled by the bare panicles of last year's bloom, was Sorharia 

 sorhifolia, escaped from cultivation on the site of an old farm, 

 on a lane running south from Alley Pond. 



Ranunculus fascicularis and ahortivus were two members of 

 that genus in bloom; also, in the same family two anemones. 

 Anemone quinquifolia, and Anemonella thalictroides . Hepatica 

 does not appear to have survived in the Queens woods, but 

 Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis was pleasingly persistent, 

 some times in woods and again along hedgerows between fields 

 where rocks had been piled. The Yellow Adder's Tongue, or 

 Fawn Lily, to give it the much better common name proposed 

 by John Burroughs, Erythronium americanum, was also com- 

 mon in wet places. While these are common species in outlying 

 parts of the suburbs of New York City, it was pleasant to find 

 them surviving so well within the limits of the metropolis and 

 within sight of the skyscrapers on Manhattan. Spice bush was 

 in height of bloom too, around Alley Pond. 



The kettle hole ponds were dryer than usual at the season, 

 and their conditions, where some that ordinarily sustain Pota- 



