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 Family 5. Lycopodiace^. Club-moss Family 



24. BOG club-moss 



LYCOPODIUM INUNDATUM L. 



Although several species of club-moss might be expected in the 

 region of the lake, only one, the bog club-moss, was seen. It was 

 quite rare and possibly disappearing. A few plants were found in 

 a sphagnum bog in Walley's woods. 



Family 6. Selaginellace^. Selaginella Family 



25. creeping selaginella 



SELAGINELLA APUS (L.) Spring 



This dainty little plant is not particularly common about Lake 

 Maxinkuckee. It is, however, pretty widely spread about the lake 

 plains. It grows almost entirely in the flat black ground, especially 

 in springy places, near the lake. A number of patches were found 

 in the flat north of Lost Lake and there are scattered patches in 

 a springy flat by Norris's. It is fairly common down the outlet. 

 It was observed in fruit June 21, 1901, north of Green's marsh. It 

 is quite abundant about Eagle Lake, Kosciusko County. 



It remains green all winter, and on account of its hardiness, 

 would probably make a very satisfactory pot plant. It is quite as 

 pretty as many of the forms seen in greenhouses. 



Family 7. Pinace^. Pine Family 

 26. labrador pine; gray pine 



PINUS BANKSIANA Lamb. 



This species is not strictly native to the region of the lake, and 

 has not become established. It is, however, a fact of too much in- 

 terest to leave wholly unnoticed, that a small pine tree probably of 

 this species sprang up at the north edge of Lost Lake about 1904, 

 and grew quite rapidly for several years. The browsing of stock 

 and whittling of men or boys proved too much for it, and it gave 

 up the struggle and died about 1908. The place where it grew was 

 of barren, drifting sand. The native forest, mostly of scrub black 

 oak, had been cut away and the wind was cutting a great gully 

 and shearing off the top of the hill, leaving a bald yellow spot con- 

 spicuous for a great distance away, the surface of the ground being 

 covered with fragments of rocks too heavy for the wind to carry 

 away, and wind ripple marks and animal tracks. 



