﻿Ecological Study of Hemiptera of Cranberry Lake Region 7 



Fig. 3. — The Beaver Meadow on the Earlier iraet. 

 tion of Station Xumber 2. Photo bv Dr. Bray. 



^ee (lescrip- 



In addition to the native plants several foreign species, inci- 

 dentally carried in with the hay and grain destined for the lumber 

 camps, have become established along the trails and tote-roads. 

 One of the latter almost parallels Sucker Brook and leads through 

 various ecological types, including bogs, beaver meadows, logged 

 area, etc., to Proulx's lumber camp and offered the most favorable 

 and attractive collecting places. 



2. Beaver Meadows (Fig. 3) : The beaver meadows are located 

 about a mile from the State Forest Camp along the Sucker Brook 

 tote-road. As the name suggests, these extensive areas have arisen 

 through flooding occasioned by the beaver dams and have replaced 

 a balsam swamp forest which preceded them. As a result of this 

 inundation the balsam (Abies balsamea (h) Mill.), spruce (Picea 

 rubra (DuRoi) Dietr.), speckled alder (Alnus incana (L) Moench.) 

 and many of the other woody and non-woody plants have been 

 smothered by the liigher water level. The dominant plants of the 

 present association, which persist around the borders and on the 

 higher elevations, are grasses (principally Calamagrostis cana- 

 densis (Michx.) Beauv.), sedges, rushes, iris, speckled alder, and 

 spiraea (largely Spiraea latifolia Borkh. and some Spiraea iomen- 

 tosa L.). Sphagnum is also found in certain places. 



3. Forsaith's Bog (Fig. 4) : This is a forest bog located about 

 a mile from the State Forest Camp across the Sucker Brook Trail 

 from the Beaver meadows. An abandoned tote-road, which 



