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road to Iona Island. The lower part of Doodletown Brook, 
climbing from the State Highway, proved interesting, with 
many mosses and liverworts. Conocephallum and Pellia were 
plentiful and a leathery brown plant which looked like a liver- 
wort proved to be the lichen Dermatocarpon miniatum aquati- 
cum. The Purple Loosestrife and the Rose Mallow were in gor- 
geous bloom in the marshes. The former shows every year more 
development at higher levels, climbing up the brooks above its 
original stands in the salt marshes. 
(The writer found another colony of Prickly Pear Cactus, in 
dune sand, east of Sunken Meadow State Park, at Kings Park. 
ET, August 8.) 
RAYMOND H. TORREY 
TRIP oF AuGusT 22-29 
Fifteen, in addition to the leaders (Dr. Gundersen and my- 
self), appeared for the week’s exploration of the Catskills, and 
were duly installed in three farmhouses in the village of Maple- 
crest, in Windham Township. Demands of summer visitors have 
resulted in a replacement of the local and botanically more in- 
spiring name of Big Hollow (still on the topographic map) by 
the elevated name, Maplecrest. The hollow is some ten miles in 
length, hemmed in on the south by Thomas Cole, Black Dome 
and Blackhead Mts. and on the east and north by Acra Point, 
Windham High Peak, and Elm Ridge. These mountains are 1n 
general 3000-4000 feet high, rising from the valley which is at 
1700-2000 feet. 
The excursion combined both scenic and botanical interests. 
The itinerary began on Monday with the ascent of Hunter Mt., 
altitude approximately 4000 feet, lying about eight miles south 
of Windham. In sugar maple groves at the base were found two 
species of Botrychium—B. lanceolatum var. angustifolium and B. 
ramosum always to be looked for and not at all uncommon 1n 
such places. The common members of this genus, B. virg- 
ianum and B. ternatum, were also found in this region. Proceed- 
ing upward Viola rotundifolia conspicuously occupies the gr ound 
for an interval of about 300 feet with occasional V. canadensis 
