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ferry, and then back through the woods to the west. The object 
of the trip was the study of goldenrods. Specimens of all the 
varieties found were collected as the party went along. After 
eight or nine species had been found, the group sat down under 
the trees to determine them with the aid of a simplified key Dr. 
Gundersen had mimeographed for distribution. It was thus 
found comparatively easy to distinguish the species found with 
the exception of Solidago altissima and S. rugosa. Many plants 
found seemed to be intermediate in various degrees as to leaf 
and flower head characters between these two species. A large 
oak noticed by the party was apparently a hybrid between 
the red and black oaks, the leaves and large acorns resembling 
the red oak, but the cups in shape and loose scales resembling 
the black. In the definite objective which was followed to the 
exclusion of more general botanizing the trip was an unqualified 
success. G 1-H; 
WEEK END OF SEPTEMBER 25-27 
Over 70 members of the Torrey Club, the American Fern 
Society and the Philadelphia Botanical Society registered at 
the Pig’n Whistle Inn at Brown’s Mills in the Pine Barrens of 
New Jersey. The leaders, Mr. and Mrs. William Gavin Taylor 
had made all arrangements for the entertainment of the party 
and had planned a most interesting program and itinerary. De- 
spite an intermittent rain on the Saturday, the party covered a 
large amount of ground by autos, visiting West Plains, where 
cars were left while all walked for a mile or more through a 
dwarf forest of pines (Pinus rigida) and scrub oaks (Quercus 
marilandica and Q. ilicifolia), the trees mostly less then four 
feet high. Below the trees were the heath-like broom crowberry 
(Corema Conradii), Hudsonia (Hudsonia ericoides) and sand 
myrtle (Letophyllum buxifolium), the last with a few belated 
flowers. A few plants of the pine barrens gentian (Gentiana Por- 
phyrio) were found but the blossoms were only half open be- 
cause of the lack of sunshine. In an abandoned cranberry bog, 
reached after another drive and a walk through the scrub, 
growth, the curly-grass fern (Schizaea pusilla) was found grow- 
ing on the edges of what, at one time, had been a small drainage 
ditch. Near it grew the thread-leaved and round-leaved sun- 
dews (Drosera filiformis and D. rotundifolia) the plants bearing 
