REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1 924 IO5 



be in no immediate danger of extermination. Any proposed attempt 

 to drain the swamp or its surrounding swampy forest, however, 

 would forever obliterate what is at the present time one of the 

 most unique swamps in the State, and one which should be pre- 

 served and protected not alone for the scientific interest which 

 attaches to its vegetation but also as a refuge for a large and varied 

 fauna of bird life. The preservation of such areas as bird refuges 

 is highly economic because of the beneficial habits to agriculture 

 of the birds which find such an area suitable for their nesting and 

 food requirements. 



It was at first the intention of the writers to add to this account 

 a list of the plants now known to occur within the region known as 

 Bergen swamp. It seems, however, that such a list should be cor- 

 related with an ecological study of the region, which at this time 

 can not be made, and our account of the vegetation of the swamp 

 may be limited merely to the listing of some of the less common 

 plants or plants of peculiar interest, not noted in Paine's flora of 

 Oneida county : 



Dryopteris cristata (L.) A. Gray 



Dryopteris Clintoniana ( D. C. Eaton) Dowell 



Dryopteris Goldiana (Hook.) A. Gray 



Phegopteris Dryopteris (L.) Fee 



Equisetum fluviatile L. 



Lycopodium lucidulum Michx. 



Lycopodium obscurum L. 



Picea mariana (Mill.) B. S. P. 



Taxus canadensis Marsh. 



Scheuchzeria palustris L. 



Panicum Lindheimeri Nash 



Trisetum pennsylvanicum (L.) Beauv. 



Eleocharis acuminata (Muhl.) Xees 



Rynchospora alba (L.) Vahl 



Mariscus mariscoides ( Muhl. ) Kuntze 



Carex rosea Schk. 



Carex trisperma Dewey 



Carex bromoides Schk. 



Carex cephalantha (Bailey) Bickn. 



Carex incomperta Bickn. 



Carex Bebbii Olney 



Carex cristatella Britton 



Carex leptalea Wahl. 



Carex pedunculata Muhl. 



Carex aurea Nutt. 



Carex anceps Muhl. 



Carex Shriveri Britton 



Carex lacustris Willd. 



CarexflavaL. 



Carex pseudocyperus L. 



CallapalustrisL. 



J uncus Dudleyi Wiegand 



J uncus brachycephalus (Engelm.) Buch. 



Clintonia borealis (Ait.) Raf. 



Vagnera trifolia (L.) Morong J 



