The Productivity of Fish Food in Oneida Lake 63 

 Tablk No. 5. Short Point Habitats 



Hal)itat numbers. 

 Field numixTS. . . . 



Dis'a^icc from shore . 

 Depth of water (feet) 

 Character of bottom . 



Unit ar^a (sq. in.) . . 



Fig. of material 



Date (July) 



Castalia odorata 



Dianthera americana. . . . 



Lemna trisulca 



Nynipluea advena 



Pontederia cordata 



FotamoL'eton natans 



Fotamogeton perfoHatus . 

 Scirpiis occidentalis. . . . 



xlv 

 866- 

 869 

 30 



boulder 



6x3x4^ 

 6x4! X2 J 

 3x2x4^ 

 11x10x6 

 22 

 19 



1 

 882- 

 884 



25 



2f 



sand 

 16 



19 



The greater part of the area bordering" the shore, however, is 

 entirely free of vegetation (fig. 12), which does not appear 

 until deeper water is reached, several hundred feet from the 

 shore. The bottom in many places is covered with the usual 

 debris of plant fragments, dead and bleached shells, worm 

 cases, etc., and over all there is more or less algse, both fila- 

 mentous and the so-called " blue-green." This shore bottom 

 is inclined to be of a marly character, Chora fragilis being 

 vei^y plentiful. 



The south shore is abundantly supplied with vegetation, both 

 specifically and individually (Table No. 6). The shore is 

 lined with Willow (Salix nigra falcata), Buttonbush {Cepha- 

 lanthus occidentalis), Loosestrife (Decodon verticillatus) , and 

 Cat-tail {Fypha angustifolia) (fig. 13), and the shallow water 

 bordering the shore has a heavy growth of Bur- reed (Sparga- 

 ninni eurycarpum) , Pickerel-weed {Pontederia cordata), 

 Arrow-heads (Sagittaria latifolia and S. arifolia), and Ameri- 

 can Bulrush {Scirpus aniericanus). Farther from shore there 

 are colonies of greater or less extent of Water Lilies 



