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skills and looks out upon the Hudson Valley. Rain set in before 
the summit was reached. Miss Rusk, Miss Vilkomerson and I 
remained somewhat behind the rest of the party and never did 
reach the top. Judging from the plants encountered, the region 
adjacent to the abandoned sandstone quarries toward the sum- 
mit has a well-marked acid soil. The most interesting plant 
along this trail is Ilex monticola, bushes up to seven feet in 
height, which I had never previously seen here. Kalmia latifolia, 
Viburnum cassinoides, Gaultheria procumbens, Quercus velutina, 
Myrica asplenifolia, Epigaea repens. Vaccinium pennsylvanicum 
and V. canadense were abundant. The evening was spent by va- 
rious members in passing buckets of water at a neighborhood 
fire. A small part of the water reached its destination. 
August 27, Thursday. So far we had enjoyed only one clear 
day and Thursday was no exception to the generally rainy 
weather. In a let-up Dr. Ryder and I, under the guidance of one 
of the boys on the farm, searched ineffectually for a “cranberry 
meadow” in which pitcher plants were said to grow. We cut 
twice through an alder swamp overgrown with grass and at 
noontime returned for more and better directions. In the after- 
noon Mr. Irish, with whom I was staying, offered to lead the 
way. This time a first-class bog was uncovered. Pitcher plants 
(Sarracenia purpurea) were there in abundance, but of more in- 
terest was an open space of about an acre thickly carpeted 
with Carex pauciflora. The small cranberry (Vaccinium Oxycoc- 
cus), and tufts of Eriophorum spissum Fernald? (E. callitrix of 
most auths.) and Kalmia polifolia were intermixed. At the 
margins of the bog, shaded by Picea rubra and Abies balsamea 
were a few clumps of Carex paupercula, another sedge rare S° 
far to the southward. Although Carex pauciflora, C. pauper 
cula, and Eriophorum spissum range southward to Pennsylvania 
on the Pocono Plateau, none of them have béen definitely re- 
ported from the area within New York State covered by Tay- 
lor’s “Flora of the Vicinity of New York,” (1915) which in- 
cludes the Catskills, nor has House? listed these species from 
within this area with the exception of C. pauciflora which 1s 
* Rhodora xxvii, 208 (1925). ’ 
* Bull. N. Y. State Museum No. 254 (1924). It is here assumed that House $ 
report of Carex paupercula in Dutchess County (p. 138) is based on the 
doubtful citation by Taylor (l.c. p. 204). 
