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is a fringe of small red spruce, further back where the land is 

 low a good growth of the southern white cedar. Pitcher plants 

 were abundant in the sphagnum of the pond border. It was 

 interesting to note that most of the leaves contained lumps of 

 ice. Just why water should freeze in the leaves of the pitcher 

 plant and not in the pond nor in the pools in the moss is hard 

 to understand. Possibly transpiration from the leaves lowered 

 the temperature the fraction of a degree necessary to bring it 

 below the freezing point. No trace of sundew could be found, 

 apparently it had disappeared earlier in the season. Along the 

 trails were large patches of various Lycopodiums {luciduhcm, 

 inundatum , ohsciirum dendroideum and com plana turn), all with 

 abundant fertile branches. In some of the swampy ground the 

 Virginia chain fern and the Massachusetts fern were found 

 with numerous other commoner species. 



George T. Hastings 



Field Trip of November 9th to Silver Lake 



A party of nearly sixty, members of the club, of the Inkowa 

 Club and of Teachers' Training School, made the trip through 

 the woods around Silver Lake, White Plains. Along the paths 

 were found numerous individual flowering plants — left-overs 

 from earlier in the season. There were several golden rods 

 (Solidago juncea, speciosa, aspera and hicolor), a few asters 

 {Aster cordif alius , novae-anglae, novi-helgii, and multiflorus) the 

 common dandelion, yarrow, pepper-grass {Lepidium virgini- 

 cum), one turnip plant by the roadside and some small seedlings 

 of another mustard. In the woods a few small trees of witch 

 hazel were covered with blossoms while others near by were 

 entirely past flowering. Attention was given to the many 

 devices for seed scattering; the erect capsules of black snake- 

 root {Cimicifuga racemosa) swaying in the wind; the winged 

 seeds of tulip tree and sugar maple thick on the ground; the 

 fluffy pappus balls of the asters, goldenrods, dandelion and 

 others; the feathery seeds of the milk weed; the grapples of 

 bidens, burdock and cocklebur; the berries of viburnum, spice 

 bush and bitter sweet; the nuts of hickories, beech and oaks. 

 Some of the beech trees bore abundant fruit that was tested 

 and found good by the party. After lunch near the "hermit's 

 cave" the group, rested on a sunny bank while Captain Paul 

 Schaefer told of the plant, bird and animal life of Northern 



