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Lake Maxixki'CKEE. This well-known hike, several miles in length, is 

 located in the southwest corner of Marshall County, about thirty-five miles north 

 of Logansport. The soil in the vicinity is sandy, especially in the uplands. The 

 most interesting botanical localities are along the low marshy southern extremity, 

 and, unless otherwise indicated, my references are to this part. 



Tamarack Swamp, South of Delong, is located in the extreme northwest 

 corner of Fulton County, within half a mile of the station on the Michigan Divi- 

 sion of the Vandalia Kailroad, and a few' miles south of Lake Maxinkuckee. It 

 has an irregular outline, is narrow in places and contains several hundred acres. 

 In the center is the remains of an old lake, now almost covered over by a mass of 

 ericads and peat moss. The whole region has recently been ditched, the ditch in 

 places passing through peat four feet in thickness. This drainage is an example 

 of what is going on all over northern Indiana. 



Tamarack Savamp, East of Mosteray, is several miles west of the last 

 named swamp, and just east of the little t<jwn of Monteray, in Pulaski County, 

 It covers less than fifty acres, but is very dense, and also contains the remains of 

 a lake. 



Sandy Land, West of Lhuansport, is interesting, botanically. It begins 

 abruptly at Kenneth, three miles west of Logansport, in the form of a triangle, 

 widening from a narrow point to a mile or more, and gradually fading or disap- 

 pearing at Logansport. (Geologically it is a limestone ridge covered with wind- 

 blown sand in a glacial region. At the western extremity it rises abruptly, as 

 already indicated, and is more or less bluflfy on the sides, especially on the south, 

 fronting the Wabash River. From a height of about forty feet at the angle, it 

 gradually declines to the east and finally merges into the ordinary ' second bottom' 

 soil of the valley. The sandy covering, that is, the soil, is deep on the north and 

 very thin on the south, the underlying rock being bare in places. The Western 

 portion is covered with a thin oak wood ; the remainder is in cultivation. Cer- 

 tain species occurring here |(lentifully are either absent in the other localities or 

 occur sparingly. 



The Wabash River at Logansport, and for many miles below, has its bed 

 eroded in the limestone; the blufls in places are perpendicular and often twenty- 

 five feet high ; the bottom is of solid rock, sandbars being few and small. The 

 periodical high water washes out everything before it, and, therefore, plants 

 usually found on the sandj^ banks of rivers are notably absent. 



Localities other than the above are referred to by name or descriptively under 

 the proper species. Where no locality is given the species is general. 



