82 Evermann d- Clark. — Fletcher Lake, Indiana. 



The water near shore and usually out for a distance of 50 feet 

 or less is shallow. At the edge of this narrow shelf the depth 

 suddenly increases to 15 to 25 feet. The soil about the lake 

 appears in general to contain considerably more clay than that 

 about Lake Maxinkuckee. The shores are nearly everywhere 

 high and dry. The south shore is high for its entire length, 

 and a few yards back is the terrace of a former shore-line. A 

 similar but less distinct terrace is seen on the north side. On 

 the north shore is some little marsh ground, and the ground at 

 both ends of the lake is rather mucky and quaky. The lake is 

 said to have once reached a considerably greater distance toward 

 the enclosing hills, ])ut was artificially drained to a lower level. 

 It has, however, little or none of the lake-plain aspect char- 

 acteristic of lowered lakes such as Eagle Lake, which is a good 

 type of lowered lakes, or the marshes about the inlet and outlet 

 of Lake ]\Laxinkuckee. 



The catchment basin of the lake is quite small. At its head 

 is a little draw or ravine which, in wet weather, brings down 

 water about 2 miles. There are a few ditches also running into 

 the lake. The outlet is jieriodic, dry at the time the lake was 

 visited, Ijut during wet weather connecting with a small creek 

 at its west end. The outlet is called Bluegrass Creek. This 

 flows into Indian Creek which takes a course nearly due west to 

 the Tippecanoe, of which it is a tributary. 



Although, as has been said, Fletcher Lake quite closely 

 resembles some of the Twin Lakes in general outline, it differs 

 from them, Holem Lake in particular, in having firm shores. 

 There is no fine sand beach such as is characteristic of Lake 

 Maxinkuckee. 



Just as the soil and shore differ sonu'what from Lake Mnxin- 

 kuckee, so does the land vegetation. No collections were made 

 in the short time spent there, l)Ut the following notes were taken: 



Among the sedges, the low sedge {Cyperus dinndrus) and the 

 straw-colored sedge (C. strir/o^ns) , common beach plants at Lake 

 INIaxinkuckee, are here i)resent also, as is also the little com- 

 posite, Edi'pta rdba. The cocklebur and barnyard grass, both 

 of which form a pretty continuous fringe about Lake Maxin- 

 kuckee, are here uncommon or wanting; but, as lake shore 

 vegetation varies considerably from year to year this is not nec- 

 essarily a constant difference. The rough sedge (Cyperus 



