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slope above, and the nearest one known to the writer stands on 
a street in Highland Falls, three miles up the Hudson and on the 
opposite bank, far from the river. 
There are seven trees in the stand; two probably about thirty 
or forty years old; three about twenty years old, and two ten 
years old or younger ; the younger ones evidently the progeny of 
some of the older of the group. One of the older trees is in an 
unhealthy state, with a long bark wound, possibly due to a light- 
ning stroke. The others are apparently quite healthy. No seedlings, 
or specimens younger than the ten year olds were seen. They 
grow along a brook descending from the upland and entering the 
cattail swamp. The older ones stand among a group of gray 
birches; the younger are more in the open, among willows and 
cattails. The brackish water from the Hudson reaches them rarely 
if at all, as the location is two or three feet above high tide level. 
There is no sign of knees about them, but the butts of the older 
ones have the characteristic pyramidal swelling and fluting. 
Lemna was found in plentiful development at this early date 
ina pool near the old abandoned mine in a pyrrhotite deposit which 
was worked years ago for its sulphur content. An interesting fea- 
ture of the regions south of Anthony’s Nose, in the northern part 
of the territory of Camp Smith, was the system of trails marked 
by Colonel William R. Wright, Chief of Staff of the New York 
National Guard, named, in part, for places in Belgium and northern 
France, where the Twenty-seventh New York Division fought 
under British general command, in the breaking of the Hinden- 
burg Line in the autumn of 1918. The pond dammed at the head 
of Broccy Kill, and the rills entering it, are good places for the 
study of wet woods flora. 
Raymonp H. TORREY 
FIELD Trip or SUNDAY, APRIL 12 
A party of fifty, consisting of members and guests of the Tor- 
rey Botanical Club, and the Westchester Trails Association, ram- 
bled over Dunderberg Mountain, on Sunday, April 12, going from 
Tomkins Cove to Timp Pass, up the Six Chins Trail and over 
Bockberg, Baldberg and Dunderberg and down the old railroad 
Stade to the river. He patica triloba was in abundant bloom in many 
x ades ; but there seems to be no rule about this variation 1n colora- 
tion from white to deep purple, as to degrees of light and shade. 
