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inflexus}, which is very rare at Lake Maxinkuckee, and not very 

 near the lake, was rather common on the shore at Fletcher 

 Lake, and Hemiairpha micrantha, a delicate little Imlrush-like 

 sedge, which was not found at Lake Maxinkuckee, was found to 

 be rather common. The naturalized bittersweet nightshade, 

 Solanum didramara, which is not present near Lake Maxin- 

 kuckee, but which grows in abundance in a tamarack swamp 

 several miles west of that lake, Avas common near tlie shore of 

 Fletcher Lake and conspicuous liy reason of its scarlet berries. 

 The leafy bulrush, Scirpiis pob/phylhis, a plant of rathei" erratic 

 distribution, not found at all at Eagle Lake or Lake INLaxin- 

 kuckee, but seen in scattered clumps at others, was found here. 

 The soapwort gentian ( Gciitiana sapona.ria) grows in considerable 

 abundance near the lake. Other plants which enter into a 

 general picture of the region, are the clumps of low willows, 

 tangles of drop-seed grass {Muhlenberghia^, and arrow-leaved 

 tear thumb {Polygonum sagittativm} , Carolina rose (J?osa Carolina), 

 tall blue verl)ena (Verbena hastata), imtches of pepi:)ermint 

 (^Mentha piperita), stretches of sticktight (Bidens connata) now 

 brown and bristling, clumps of Cornus {Corniis sericea), bunches 

 of iron weed (Vernonia fasriciilata) and fragrant goldenrod 

 (Euthamia graminifoiia) . Along the marshy portions and at 

 places near shore were blue flags and Eleocharis, and tangles of 

 swamp loosestrife {Decodon verticellata) and patches of cattails 

 {Typha latifolia). 



The aquatics with emersed leaves, the spatterdock or yellow 

 pond lily (Nymphsea ndrena), the grass-leaved arrowhead 

 (Sagittaria graminea) most of the leaves of which were sub- 

 mersed, the creeping spike-rush {Eleocharis palustris) , the shining 

 pond weed (Potamogeton Ivcens), the white water lily {Castalia 

 odorata), the bulrushes {Scirpus lacustris and S. americanus) and 

 the pickerel-weed {Pontederia cordata) are confined to a narrow 

 belt on account of the set-off in the bottom near shore. The 

 aquatics with submerged leaves, among which were thewhorled- 

 leave<l milfoil {Mt/riophylluvi verticillatum) , hornwort {Ccra- 

 tophyllum demersum), the ditch nioss {Philotria canadensis), Naias, 

 water marigold iBideiis lieckii), fennel-leaved pond weed i Pota- 

 mogeton pectinatus) and the eel-grass pondweed {Potamogeton 

 zostersefolius) , were exceedingly abundant; so much so that 

 masses of them, especially Philotria, collected in great rolls 



