INTRODUCTION. XVIII 



Cedab Swamp. 



This swamp is in Georgetown and is very similar in the charac- 

 ter of its flora to the preceding one. It extends about three 

 miles in a semicircle, with a width of about one half mile, from 

 Grand River toward Jenison. 



The Zeeland Swamp. 

 This noted swamp commences about one mile west of Hiidson- 

 ville, passes through the north-west corner of Jamestown, and 

 thence through Zeeland to Black Lake. Much of this swamp is 

 now under cultivation and forms some of the most fertile land in 

 Ottawa County. The portion near Hudsonville is not unlike the 

 two swamps previously described, and is mentioned in the Cata- 

 logue as the "Hudsonville Swamp." 



The Mill Creek Woods. 

 This region lies north-west from the West Michigan Fair 

 Grounds, and consists of a series of wooded hills intersected by 

 ravines and creeks. It is wooded chiefly with white pine, inter- 

 spersed with oak, birch, maple, and an occasional tulip-tree. The 

 forest is northern in its character. Here grow: 



Aspidium Boottii. Habenaria Hookeriana. 



Biirtonia tenella. hyperborea. 



Clintonia borealis. orbiculata. 



Cypripedium acaule. Lirioaendron TulljMfera. 



Equisetum iiratense. Lycopodium complanatum. 



.sciri)oide.s. Medeola Virginiana. 



sylvaticum. Monotropa Hj'popitj's. 



PLAixriELD Village Bluffs. 

 North of Plainfield Village and near Grand River is found a 

 range of bluifs, above which is a level plain. Back of this plain 

 extends another range and then a level region. The first 

 range forms an immediate background to the Village, and the 

 first level is nearly 90 feet above Lake Michigan. The second range 

 is about a mile distant, surmounted by a level about 190 

 feet above the Lake. The first bluff faces south and remains, for 

 the most part, in its primitive condition. Its soil is of a dry ffrav- 



