Field notebook, 1940-1943
Page 45
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50 June 10. (Wednesday) Went to Bergen Beach to see about Spartina maritima for church at Bronx. Material of S. alterniflora not yet in flower and will not be for another month. Collected Carex debilis and Agrostis scrobiculata. June 11. (Thursday). Left at noon for the Catskills. Rained hard in Kingston but cleared by the time the Catskills were reached. Stopped at South Lake for Cherleria Smallsii, Carex atlantica, C. interior, C. stricta, etc. and at the quarries at Taconville for fossil plants of which I got several good slabs. June 12. (Friday) Climbed Middleham High Peak in morning. Carex is so particularly profuse and interesting on the west slope including C. more-agilis, C. communis, C. aestivalis, C. radiata, C. praeclinis, C. [illegible] var. Budgei, C. laxiflora and C. capriculus all growing adjacent. Further up the mountain Milium effusum, Carex leptoneura, and C. intermedia var. Smaraldi; the summit of Northern High Peak has only two large trees (beeches) but an undergrowth of Prunus virginiana', P. pensylvanica, Acer spicatum, principally. On the steep northern slope, Ribes (2 species) and great masses (naturally sparse) of Decandra canadensis and D. Cucullaria, Claytonia Caroliniana, Erythronium, and the oblate-leaved Trillium erectum. Returned to Maple Crest by way of the Ridge. June 13 (Saturday). Visited Cribb in the morning. Collected in early afternoon on Sandstone escarpment west of Middleburgh: Carex varia (?), Andromeda, Eury- physisophos, Rhus aromatica, Thieracium venosum,