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causes on the spruce boughs. Other interesting species in this 
swamp were Kalmia polifolia, rare in northern New Jersey; 
Smilacina trifolia, equally uncommon in this latitude; and Tril- 
lium undulatum, one of probably not more than half a dozen 
stands in the New Jersey highlands. 
A striking plant, which seems locally common on the western 
slope of the Kittatinys, and is also found in the cemetery near 
the hotel, but does not occur in eastern New Jersey or the lower 
Hudson valley, was the Painted Cup, Castilleja coccinea, a splen- 
did thing with the scarlet leaves at the top of the stem, below 
the small and inconspicuous flowers. 
Another handsome display in mass was afforded by dense 
colonies of Corydalis semervirens on open ledges on the Appala- 
chian Trail, in the Stokes State Forest, their pink-purple bloom 
being extraordinarily copious. Cypripedium acaule, pubescens 
and parviflorum were found on this trail. Krigia virginica made 
pretty little colonies of orange bloom on the thin soil on ledges. 
mmense colonies of May-apple, Podophyllum peltatum, 
covered old pastures on both east and west slopes of Kittatiny 
Mountain. Hound’s Tongue, Cynoglossum officinale, in old pas- 
tures, and a somewhat unusual geranium, Geranium carolin- 
tanum, were interesting species. i 
The sole stand in New Jersey of the Three Toothed Cinque- 
foil, Potentilla tridentata, on the summit of High Point, was 
visited, and if there is no further disturbance of the natural 
conditions incident to the construction of the war monument 
Mary P. TAYLOR 
CATSKILL Trip, May 30-31 
_ A climb of Balsam Cap, 3700 feet, one of the summits in the 
line running south from Wittenberg and Cornell, between the 
Esopus and Rondout Valleys, from the head of Maltby Hol- 
low, on Memorial Day, disclosed the succession backward, from 
farly summer flowers in the lowlands to early spring blooms 
above 3500 feet, which is always an interesting phenomenon 
about the end of May in the Catskills. White daisies and the 
king devil, Hieracium florentinum, were in bloom in the fields 
West of the Ashokan’ Reservoir. As the climb was started from 
