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PA 14. Titus Bog. Acreage: 89. 



Location: Erie County; Union City, Pa.-N.Y. Quadrangle (Area A); 2 miles N 

 of Beaver Dam; reached via Rt. 89 north to Twp. Rd. 1496 (left). 



Description: An open cranberry-sphagnum bog with scattered groups of shrubs 

 and pines, surrounded by a shrub thicket. Here is found the best stand for 

 Dragon's mouth (Arethusa bulbosa) in western Pennsylvania and one of two lo- 

 calities for the white fringed orchid (Habenaria blephariglottis) in this part of the 

 state, also the only known locality in western Pennsylvania for Scheuchzeria pa- 

 lustris and for a variety of the Marsh Clubmoss (Lycopodium inundatum var. 

 elongatum). Water lilies still grow and bloom in the sphagnum mat, but there is 

 no open water. Some 60 years ago, the center of the area contained a lake 

 which has now disappeared. 



Ownership: Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania and the Erie Audubon 

 Society, c/o Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213. 



Data source: Dr. LeRoy K. Henry, Curator of Plants, Carnegie Museum, Pitt- 

 sburgh, Pa. 15213. 



Other knowledgeable persons: Mr. W. E. Buker, 3833 Oswego St., Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. 15212. 





