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ash, raspberry and blackberry, some lioplree iPtelea) and witch hazel, 

 while the forest floor is covered with a carpet of cominou bladder fern, 

 {'ystopteris fraglUs, some maiden-hair fern (not very common). Indian tur- 

 nips, wood rush, various galiums, pinks, may-apples, hawkweeds, wood 

 sunflowers, tick trefoils, and so on. Anycliia is abundant in some places. 

 In other places are a few scattered patches of ^ahhatla angiilaris, frost- 

 weed, pinweed and Hcpatica hepatica. the round-lobed liver leaf. This is 

 the predominant species of the genus here; in fact, the only species the 

 writer has seen at all, while in other parts of the State, except in ^larshall 

 County, the only species the writer has seen was H. acuta. In a hasty trip 

 to Chapman's Lake, not far from Eagle Lake, plenty of Hcpatica acuta was 

 seen and no H. Jiepatica. (At Chapman's Lake, too, Impatatkns pallida was 

 the only species seen. At Eagle Lake I have seen only /. fulva.) 



^yndcsiiiou tlialirtroidrx. Avhich is usually regarded an early spring 

 bloomer, flowers occasionally in late summer in various forests near the 

 lake. During the summer of 1899 a specimen was found in the woods 

 south of Cherry Creek, about one-half mile from the lake, in flower in 

 August. In lOOO a plant was found in full bloom June 29, over near the 

 Pennsylvania railroad, and another on July 30, up Clear Creek ravine. 



Toward the foot of some of the hills, and in rather open spaces, is 

 found an abundance of such plants as the l)lack hucklelierry ((iai/luKsacia 

 rcsinosa), mullein foxglove, downy false foxglove, wild flax, frostweed, and 

 in some places Frasera. Here, too, is an abundance of dense tufts of 

 various mosses, while a small cup lichen, Cladonia, covers the earth 

 with a continuous gray mantle. Toward the outer edge of the forest 

 and at the foot of the hills is a sparse growth of wild oat grass and 

 Fimhristi/Iis. 



The heavy forest southeast of the lake contains about the same species 

 of trees as those mentioned above as characteristic of the hill forest. 

 Here is a large number of introduced plants, as motherwort, burdock, and 

 sweet briar rose. The forest near Yarnelle's point contains a basin where 

 pin oak is almost the only species, while in the forest near the outlet there 

 is coral root in considerable abundance. There is an abundance of fungi 

 in all the forests, of Myxomycetes, Boleti and various Agarics. 



In certain places the forests have been removed from the hills, where 

 it has been left to grow up again without apparently having ever been 

 cultivated much; we have a growth peculiar to such places everywhere. 

 In one such region sassafras, not frequently to be met with in the native 



