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IN I. Cabin Creek Raised Bog. Acreage: 30. 



Location: Randolph County; Farmland and Maxville quadrangles; 6 miles N of 

 Modoc; E of Indiana Rt. I, between Farmland and Modoc, 500 ft S of Cabin 

 Creek on farm of Robert Holliday. 



Description: This bog is 10 ft above the general flood-plain level due to artesian 

 springs, high in calcium, that give rise to several small streams that flow from 

 the peat moss. The pH has been reported as ranging between 6.9 to 7.5, the 

 temperature from 52° to 55° F. Sphagnum moss is absent. Sedges, moss (Dre- 

 panocladus), and woody plants are the chief peat producers. Marl deposits 

 derived from the ground water are prominent. The Bog has become increasingly 

 dominated by shrubs during the past 20 years of protection from fire, but ericad 

 species are absent. Friesner and Potzger and Stares have listed 222 species of 

 vascular plants, which include prairie plants, typical bog shrubs, disjuncts, 

 northern species at their southern limits, and southern species at their northern 

 limits in Indiana. The algae present have been reported by Dailey. Lime-loving 

 species such as Rhynchospora capillacea, Triglochin palustris, Scleria verti- 

 cicillata, Juncus hrachycephalus, Eleocharis elliptica, Pamassia glauca, and 

 Lobelia kalmii, and orchids, Calopogon pulchellus, Cypripedium reginae, 

 C. calceolus, C. candidum, and Pogonia ophioglossoides are present. 



References: Lindsey, A. A., D. V. Schmei.z and S. A. Nichols. 1969. Natural 

 areas in Indiana and their preservation, p. 287-291; Daily, F. K. 1953. The 

 Characeae of Indiana. Butler Univ. Bot. Studies 11:5-49; Daily, W. A. 1961. 

 Some algae of the Cabin Creek Raised Bog, Randolph County, Indiana. Proc. 

 Indiana Acad. Sci. 71:298-301; Friesner, R. C, and J. E. Potzger. 1946. The 

 Cabin Creek Raised Bog, Randolph County, Indiana. Butler Univ. Bot. Studies 8: 

 24-43; Riemer, C. W. 1962. Some aspects of the diatom flora of Cabin Creek 

 Raised Bog. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 71:305-319; Starcs, H. 1961. Notes on 

 vascular plants of the Cabin Creek Raised Bog. Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci. 71:302- 

 304. 



Ownership: Robert Holliday. 



Data source: Dr. Alton A. Lindsey, Department of Biological Science, Purdue 

 University, Lafayette, Ind. 47900. 



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