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(Pyxidanthera barbulata) were abundantly found in bud, but not 
in open flower. Other plants found which are abundant in the re- 
gion were: 
Cassandra (Chamaedaphne calyculata) 
Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi) 
Pine barrens Heather (Hudsonia ericoides) 
Inkberry (Ilex glabra) 
Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) 
Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) 
Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia) 
Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) 
White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) 
Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) 
Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) 
Cranberry (Oxycoccus macrocarpon 
Forty members and guests made the West Plains Pine Barrens 
trip, motoring from Newark and New York. 
Wm. Gavin TAYLOR 
FIELD Trip oF SUNDAY, APRIL 5 
Forty members and guests of the club visited the region on 
the east side of the Hudson River, opposite Bear Mountain Park, 
including Anthony’s Nose, Sunday, April 5. Spring flowers were 
delayed in bloom, owing to cool weather, only a few hepatica 
blossoms appearing, while arbutus was still in bud. Spring fruiting 
mosses were in good condition, with plentiful fresh capsules, on 
Pohlia nutans, Ceratodon purpureus and Mnium cuspidatum. A 
few spears of Veratrum viride showed along the brooks. After 
visiting the Nature Trails at Bear Mountain the party crossed the 
bridge and first inspected the stand of southern bald cypress, 
Taxodium distichum, at the edge of the cattail swamp, east 0 
Manitou station on the New York Central Railroad. This occur: 
rence, the farthest north outside of cultivation known to the writer, 
awaits explanation, as to whether it was established as a pioneet 
northern stand, possibly seeded by migrating birds; or by branch- 
lets dropped from trees somewhere nearby in cultivation and caf- 
ried to the spot by the waters of the Hudson, and into this back- 
water by some extremely high tide through an opening in a 
railroad tracks one mile south of the spot, which drains the swamp. 
No cultivated Taxodium is to be found about the houses on the 
