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Palisades Interstate Park at 1300 feet. It seems evident that 
the species has no special preference as to the kind of soil it 
likes; it was here growing upon the Devonian conglomerate 
(Green Pond formation). It occurs, in the writer’s observation, 
on granite, gneiss, basalt, diabase, dune sand, glacial outwash on 
Long Island Pine Barren sand, Cretaceous formations in Mon- 
mouth County, N. J. (marly sand), and the only nearby forma- 
tions on which it has not been seen by the writer, are the Tri- 
assic sandstones, in New Jersey and Rockland Co. N. Y. or the 
Hudson Valley limestones and slates, and in Norman Taylor’s 
catalogue it is reported presumably on the latter in Dutchess 
and Greene Counties. 
Another stand of the red spruce was found, in a swamp on 
the west side of the outer ridge of Bearfort Mountain. It occurs 
in other swamps on this mountain, but this locality was a new 
one to the writer. 
Lichens were in good condition, especially the cladonias, in 
fine plump state after a rain and with their apothecia in bright 
hues. A very large patch of the dog lichen, Peltigera canina, 
covered three square yards. Several small wet spots were dense- 
ly filled with the virginian chain fern, Woodwardia virginica, 
which appears common on this conglomerate ridge, though 
much less so east of Greenwood Lake, within the granite-gneiss 
area. RHAFF 
LICHEN COLLECTING IN WAWAYANDA 
SWAMP—-NOVEMBER 3 
The field trip to the region west of Greenwood Lake, on 
Election Day, was promptly turned into a lichen collecting ex- 
cursion when Mrs. Gladys P. Anderson of Rahway, N. J., ap- 
peared, for those who know her ardent interest and wide knowl- 
edge in that subject yield at once to her leadership. Most of the 
day was spent in collecting lichens in the rhododendron and 
southern white cedar swamp on Wawayanda Mountain, along 
the Appalachian Trail. Mrs. Anderson found the region very 
rich in lichens and discovered some unusual species. : 
To beginners in the subject, the commoner species were in- 
teresting, such as the beautiful bluish gray Lecidea albo-caeru- 
lescens, in broad circular thalli on smooth rocks; the golden 
Cetraria juniperina pinastri on the cedars, a handsome black 
