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Aug 23.1918 Hempstead Plains L.1103
Spent the day with Mr Norman Taylor
of The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.
Studying the flora of an island of
Pinus rigida on the plains south
of Hicksville & near the old RR
to Babylon. The flora almost-
identical with adjoining prairie,
Pteris mariana may be dominating with
Caylus americanus almost as abundant;
the latter in dense large masses
by itself. The most abundant
herb, aster dumosus.
Loechen, Helianthemum, aletis. & other
plain plants, Vaccinium, & Lyceaceae Ic.,
Polemonium podora.
Mr Taylor wanted to study the flora
where the natural prairie was bounded
by woods. This we found just-
southwest of the Pinus island.
The trees were practical all oaks,
Post oak, Quercus celtata with a