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used for pasture, or where they can be easily drained for culti- 

 vation, though they are of course in constant danger of being 

 flooded. Under these conditions there are but few wet meadows 

 which have retained their original vegetation. Many of them 

 under continual pasturing have grown up to coarse weeds and 

 grasses. The greatest variety of plants is found where the wet 

 meadow has been used as a hay meadow. This offers more 

 nearly the natural conditions for such plants as Liliiun cana- 

 dense (Plate XXVII., A). Habenaria leticophcea, Pedictilaris 

 lanceolata, Saxifraga -pennsylvanica^ Chelone glabra, Parnas- 

 sia caroliniana, Onoclea sensibilis and many others in the list. 

 The plants which grow in the wet meadows are : 



Angelica atropurptirea, Lythrum alatwn. 



Aster novcB-anglicB, Macrocalyx nyctclea, 



Aster frenanthoides, Miimilus ringens, 



Aster puniceiis, Onoclea sensibilis, 



Aster sagittifoliiis, Parnassia caroliniaita, 



Caltha -palustris, Pedicularis lanceolata, 

 Cerastiinn longipedimculatiivi, Pinipinella integerrinia, 



Chelone glabra, Rtidbeckia laciniata, 



Cicuta bulbifera, Riidbeckia triloba, 



Cicuta macidata, Riuncx acetosella, 



Doellingeria umbellata, Rumex crispus, 



Dryopteris thelyptcris, Saxifraga pennsylvanica, 



Gentiana crinita, Silene alba, 



Gentiana jlavida, Silphitim laciniattim, 



Habenaria leticophcea, Silphiu^n perfoliatum, 



Habenaria psycodes, Viola obliqua, 



Lilium canadense, Zizia aurea. 

 Lobelia syphilitica. 



Moist woods vegetation. 



As previously stated the most typical moist woods vegetation 

 is to be found on the north banks of the table lands. The tim- 

 ber on the banks has much of it been left uncut and offers the 

 very best conditions for the survival of moist woods vegetation. 

 In the list of moist woods plants here given are included only 

 those collected or noted from a single location in Winnebago 

 valley. It is a bank about one-half a mile long bordering on 

 the table land for the greater part of its length. Some of the 



