FIELD TRIPS OF THE CLUB 



Members of the Torrey Botanical Club party at the home 

 of Dr. Will S. Monroe, Couching Lion Farm, North Duxbury, 

 Vt., over the Fourth of July week end, led by WilHam Gavin 

 Taylor, report among their finds the Luminous Moss, Schis- 

 tostega osmundacea, and the Rock Brake, Cryptogramma Stel- 

 leri both on talcose schist rock, in Fayston Pass, south of 

 Couching Lion, and east of Stark Mountain. As explained by 

 Mr. A. T. Beals, who found this station first, in 1929, the lumin- 

 osity is due to light reflecting qualities in the structure of the 

 protonema. The golden-green glow in the dark recesses under 

 an overhanging rock is described as quite surprising by Mr. 

 J. A. Allis, a member of the club, who visited the site later, 

 and found the Rock Brake, newly reported there. The party 

 which visited Smuggler's Notch found the stand of Saxifraga 

 Aizoon, which has been reported before and brought back a 

 plant to establish in Dr. Monroe's alpine garden, which, by 

 the way, was finer than ever this year. 



Twenty members and guests of the club took part in the 

 excursion to Bear Mountain Park, Sunday, July 20, under the 

 leadership of Mr. Raymond Adolph, forester of the Palisades 

 Interstate Park. The shores of Queensboro Lake yielded some 

 interesting water plants, including Alisma Plantago-aqimtica, 

 and Lythrum Salicaria, small stands of the latter having ad- 

 vanced from the marshes along the Hudson in recent years 

 and established themselves at several of the inland lakes and 

 beaver ponds in the Park. The spread of the Purple Looses- 

 strife, from its large and dense colonies along the Hudson, 

 during the past ten or twenty years, has been continued evi- 

 dence of the adaptiveness of the beautiful and interesting im- 

 migrant from Europe, which is now one of the commonest of 

 our marsh plants, not only of brackish spots along the Hudson 

 as far south as Piermont, but in fresh water marshes, along the 

 Wallkill, on tributaries of the Hudson in Dutchess and Co- 

 lumbia counties, and more recently along the upper part of the 

 Hackensack meadows, near Little Ferry. It is now established 

 in several of the park lakes, and in the beaver meadows near 

 Lake Nawahunta and Middle Kanawauke Lakes, and seems 

 to thrive as well in fresh water as in brackish. 



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