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On the 13th, leaving the farm house, the party rambled over 

 200 miles of New Jersey roads, before reaching home. High 

 Point State Park was visited, and a few additional remaining 

 plants of Potentilla tridentata, surviving from the construction 

 of the war monument, in its only stand in New Jersey, were 

 found, so that it promises to persist, as most visitors do not 

 know its rarity. The Wallkill Meadows, along the west side 

 of Pochuck Mountain, were next visited. The fringe of Lizard's 

 Tail, Saururus, which borders the Wallkill in these Drowned 

 Lands, was noted. On a limestone knob rising out of the 

 meadow, near Owen, Walking Fern, Maidenhair Spleenwort 

 and American Yew were found. An addition to one's list of 

 Walking Fern occurences is always a delight and we found two 

 on this trip. After luncheon on the high plateau, north of 

 Stockholm, the last visit of the day was made in the Cedar 

 Swamp on the Wawayanda Plateau, west of Greenwood Lake 

 where the Southern White Cedar, Chamaecyparis was seen in 

 great numbers. Coptis trifolia, the Goldthread also occurs in 

 the swamp. 



Such motorized trips of the club always prove interesting, 

 for their variety and scope, and it would enlarge the programs 

 of the field meetings immensely if more of them could be 

 arranged, and motor transportation obtained for larger num- 

 bers. Parties can reach more remote places, in a day's outing, 

 than by rail and foot. 



Raymond H. Torrey 



Field Trip of October 19th to Cedar Ponds 



About eighteen members of the club joined half again as 

 many of the Paterson Ramblers on a trip to the Cedar Ponds, 

 From Greenwood Lake the party followed through the woods, 

 noting many interesting plants and the colors of the trees which 

 seemed to tint the light that sifted through. At a fork in the 

 trail part of the group turned off to visit the fire tower, the 

 others kept on towards the ponds. As a maze of paths and old 

 wood road spread through the woods it is not surprizing that 

 only after walking a number of miles did the party realize that 

 they had gone beyond the ponds. After lunch they turned back, 

 but again divided at a fork in the trail, some to take the shorter 

 way to Sterling Forest, some to find the ponds. At last seven of 

 the original forty five reached the goal. Close to the pond there 



