Plants op Marque;tte County 7 



by land cruisers, one with limbs near the ground, buckwheat pine. When 

 logs of this species are or become so heavy as to sink in water many lumber- 

 men call them pig-iron pine. 



Lo.rix larkina (Du Roi) Koch. Tamarack, American Larch. — In swamps 

 near Huron Mountain Club and frequent throughout. 



Ficca canadensis (Mill.) BSP. White Spruce. — Dry ground often on 

 margins of hardw^oods near Huron Mountain Club. Frequent throughout. 



Picca rnariana (Mill.) BSP. Black Spruce. — Usually in swamps with 

 tamaracks and noted near Huron Mountain Club. Plentiful throughout in 

 such situations. 



Abies balsamca (L.) Mill. Balsam Fir, Balsam. — In and on the margin 

 of hardwoods near Pluron Mountain Club. Frequent throughout. 



Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr. Hemlock. — Often large trees on the mar- 

 gin of and in hardwoods near Huron Mountain Club. Plentiful throughout. 

 Large trees are called yellow hemlock, and second growth white hemlock 

 by land cruisers. 



Thuja occidcntalis L. White Cedar, Arbor Vitae. — In damp open hard- 

 woods and swamps near Huron Mountain Club. Plentiful throughout. 

 Formerly abundant in "cedar swamps", but lumbering and destructive fires 

 "have in many places nearly exterminated it. Small trees often grow on or 

 near sandy beaches. As understood by land cruisers, second growth trees 

 and those having bodies covered with limbs to or nearly to the ground are 

 white cedar; those with tall smooth bodies mostly without limbs but with 

 small tops are yellow cedar. 



Jnniperiis communis L. Common Juniper. — On granitic hills near Hu- 

 ron Mountain Club. Small and apparently infrequent. The difference be- 

 tween this and the following, where the trees are mere shrubs, does not 

 seem to be so very clear. This species when well developed is quite tree- 

 like. 



Juniperus comniunis depressa Pursh. (/. Sibirica Burgsd.) Low Juni- 

 per. — Near Huron Mountain Club along sandy beaches and in rocky places. 

 Plentiful throughout. 



typhaceae; • 



Typha latifolia L. Common Cat-tail. — In wet marshy and swampy 

 places near Pluron Mountain Club. Plentiful throughout. 



SPARGANIACUAE 



Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm. Broad-fruited Bur-reed. — Borders of 

 ponds, lakes and streams near Huron Mountain Club. Plentiful throughout. 



Sparganium americanum androcladum (Engelm.) Fernald & Eames. 

 {S. androcladum Engelm., Morong.). Branching Bur-reed. — Third Pine 

 Lake near Huron Mountain Club. Frequent throughout. 



Sparganium diversifolimn acaulc (Beeby) Fernald & Eames. {S. acaule 

 Beeby* Rydb.). Stemless Bur- reed. — Wet muddy places and in shallow 

 water. Third Pine Lake, at the "Styx" near Huron Mountain Club, and 

 probably frequent throughout. 



