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measure due to the careful planning and graciousness of Mr. 
and Mrs. Taylor. 
GEORGE T. HASTINGS 
Monpay, OCTOBER 12 
A small party was led by Mrs. Gladys P. Anderson to Long- 
wood Valley and Green Pond fora study of lichens. Mrs. Ander- 
son had prepared a mimeographed leaflet for those on the trip, 
describing about sixty of the more common lichens, with a key 
for determining them. Some twenty species, exclusive of a vari- 
ety of crustose forms, were found and studied. The little peltate 
forms of Dermatocarpon growing on the rocks, resembling mini- 
ature rock tripe, were especially interesting. The wooly Crocynia - 
was abundant on the cliffs, beautiful plants of Parmelia rudecta 
and caperata were growing on the tree trunks with several spe- 
cies of Physcia. A number of species of Cladonia and the related 
Baeomyces roseus were found. The limestone ridges were rich in 
ferns—extensive patches of the walking fern, Camptosaurus 
rhizophyllus, scattered plants of the cliff brake, Pellaea atropur- 
purea, and the dainty wall spleenwort, Asplenium Ruta-muraria 
with an abundance of the maiden-hair spleenwort, Asplenium 
Trichomanes, as well as many of the more common species. 
The party examined several books on lichens that Mrs. Ander- 
son had brought during lunch time while waiting for the coffee 
to percolate. In spite of its double wrapping of brown and wax 
paper the coffee was finally done, its unusual method of prep- 
aration adding to the zest with which it was finally consumed. 
G. T. H. 
PRICKLY PEAR ON BEARFORT MOUNTAIN 
The most notable discovery of the field trip on Sunday, 
October 25, on Bearfort Mountain, west of Greenwood Lake, 
was a large patch of the prickly pear cactus, Opuntia vulgaris, 
which the writer had not found before on this ridge, although it 
occurs on Carris Hill ten miles south in the Wyanokie Plateau. 
This Bearfort Mountain stand is the farthest one the writer 
knows, from the seacoast, in this vicinity, being about 40 miles 
in a direct line, northwest of New York harbor. It is also the 
highest of record in this Vicinity at about 1350 feet, exceeding 
in elevation the more meager patch on Bear Mountain in the 
