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for the Carolina wren remains all the year round where once it has 
fixed its home. 
Mr. Davis also contributed the following botanical notes : 
A swamp of three or four acres lies just north of the Amboy road, 
between Gifford’s and the road to Richmond. At present it supports 
a thick growth of huckleberry bushes, poison sumachs, young red 
maples, a number of magnolias, etc. Several bushes of the mountain 
holly (Wemopanthes canadensis) also grow there, which species has not 
before been reported from the island. In July, 1889, the deep red 
berries were conspicuous ; in 1890o the bushes bore no fruit; but on the 
26th of April, this year, they were found in blossom. (Specimens were 
here shown. ) 
The peat is particularly thick and quaking in this swamp, and 
fifteen or twenty years ago, before it had been drained so extensively, 
the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) grew in its northwest corner, 
as I was informed by a man who lived in the vicinity. The common 
cranberry also grew there, and the man who told me about the pitcher 
plant, said his mother used to pick them for family use, but in his 
time he had never gathered over a handful. Now they appear to be 
exterminated. There is, however, an unreported patch of cranberries 
(Vaccinium macrocarpum), or perhaps more properly several patches, 
in the low, open woods between Washington Avenue and the road fro 
Annadale. _ ; 


