70 FISHES OF THE CONNECTICUT LAKES. 
West Cove, East Inlet entering East Cove, and two small streams 
entering from the southeast. 
The Main Inlet enters from the north after meandering for a dis- 
tance of 1 mile or more through open country as a sluggish stream, 
30 feet wide, and 2 to 3 feet deep. In the rapid water 14 miles above 
the lake, the temperature registers 57° F.; in the lower stretches, 
out of reach of lake influence, the water registered 54° F. at a time 
when the surface of the lake was 62° F. The cooling of the water of 
the river, similar to that observed at the entrance of the Main Inlet 
to the First Connecticut Lake, is therefore to be noted. Consider- 
able beds of chara (Chara coronata), bur-reed (Sparganium simplex 
angustifolium), pond weed (Potamogeton amplifolius and P. nut- 
tallii), and milfoil (ALyriophyllum alterniflorum) occupy the bottom, 
particularly toward the entrance to the lake. 
_ The stream from the northwest meanders similarly from the hills 
in the distance. Its temperature was 56° F. on August 20. The 
East Inlet enters at the northeastern curve of the lake from the 
east. Its course can be traced through epen country for 5 or 6 miles 
easterly with but few rapids among the hills which feed it. Its tem- 
perature is higher than the other inlets, due, no doubt, to its longer 
exposure to the sun in stretches of dead water. From the hills on 
the immediate east are two small streams, seeping their way to some 
degree through the intervening meadow. 
Fixed aquatic vegetation._-The western shore is protected from the 
prevalent wind and consequent wave action. Here in the shallow 
protected water of the limnetic bench were established pond weed 
(Potamogeton pusillus and P. spirillus), needle rush (leocharis aci- 
cularis), pipewort (Evriocaulon septangulare), and water lobelia 
(Lobelia dortmanna). In Kast and West coves of the main portion of 
the lake and in South Bay were mixed beds of chara (Chara coro- 
nata), pond weed (Potamogeton amplifolius, P. prelongus, and P. 
perfoliatus), pond lies (Vymphea advena and N. hybrida), water 
milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), and Batrachium trichophyllum, 
all of which are plants able to root at depths below the limit of the 
wave action of this lake and to resist, when at the surface, some de- 
gree of roughness. The growth of these aquatics is greatest in South 
Bay, and only a little less dense in East Cove. In the shallower, 
more protected corners of the take were occasional beds of pond weed 
(Potamogeton nuttallii), milfoil (Alyriophyllum alternifiorum), and 
Sagittaria graminea, in addition to the omnipresent great yellow pond 
lily(Vymphewa advena). The quantity of fixed aquatie vegetation 
was greater in this lake than in any other of the larger bodies of 
water in this vicinity. The single detached specimen of Potamoge- 
ton perfoliatus apparently loosened in sounding or dredging indicate 
a flora possibly undiscovered. 
