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BOTANICAL SOCIETY CAMPING TBIPS. 
During each of the last two seasons a group of mem- 
bers of the Society have undertaken short outings in 
the form of semi-camping trips, which have proved 
very profitable and enjoyable. 
In August, 1918, an informal party was made up to 
spend the week-end at Lagunitas at the invitation of 
Miss A. Bruce Walker, then Secretary of the Society. 
They camped at “Bagdad,” the summer home of the 
Walkers, a charming retreat in the hills just above 
the redwood belt. The Walker home, placed at their 
disposal, gave opportunity for meals almost a la civiliza- 
tion planned by a commissary committee, the expense 
being shared by the members of the party. One walk 
was taken among the redwoods, and another in the 
Water Company’s reserve, both under very interesting 
conditions for study at that season of the year. Sev- 
eral members saw for the- first time the California Nut- 
meg, Tumion californicum. 
In May, 1919, a more extended trip was made to 
Orr’s Springs, Mendocino County, to camp at the moun- 
tain home of Mr. W. T. Hollingsworth. The party 
was invited for a week, and the date set at the end of 
May to take advantage of the holiday on May 30th. 
About twenty members made the trip ; the plan was 
the same as last year, a commissary committee making 
all food purchases. Each person provided his own 
sleeping-bag or blankets. Under this plan it is found 
that the camp duties are not very burdensome, nor the 
expense very great. The plant-associations of the local- 
ity are varied and rich; one trip to Montgomery Grove 
gave more than gratifying results in the study of plants 
of the redwood floor and of the vicinity of stream beds 
Every member was particularly delighted with the Fire 
Cracker Plant, Brodiaea ida-maia, found in considerable 
numbers. Another trip to a deep mountain canyon was 
rewarded by the sight of several colonies of the Cali- 
fornia Lady- Slipper, Cypripedium montanum, in bloom. 
Still another to an open ridge, revealed a wonderful pro- 
fusion of Calochortus, white, buff, or yellow, all more or 
less veined and occulated with purple. Subsequent 
