BOTANICAL SURVEY— SUGAR GROVE REGION 



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THE BIRCH BOTTOM LAND 



One often reads accounts of the settlement of the country by the 

 pioneers of bottom-lands covered with birch instead of willow, but so 



Fig. 10. The Birch Bottomland on Queer Creek. 

 Betula lutea in almost pui-e stand. 



far as Ohio is concerned, these have almost completely vanished. Bircli 

 bottoms, however, must originally have abounded along the streams in 



