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iHntlii-ast was pastured and imicli dis- 

 turbed. Visits were made to this site on 

 May 27, July 1. and September 8, 1950. 

 Housen. — When visited April 24, 

 l')51, this hill prairie in the soutiieast 

 quarter of section 7, T. 6 S., R. 5 \V., on 

 the Housen farm north of Rockport, Pike 

 County, covered more than an acre of the 

 uppermost southwest-facing slope of tlie 



crest of the ridge grew a mixture of prai- 

 rie, wiKidiand, culti\ated plants, and 

 weeds. Some of the plants growing in this 

 site were Lespedeza stipulacea, Syrnpltori- 

 carpos orbiculatus, Melilotus nlhn. Tri- 

 llins flavus, Bouteloua curtipendiila, Jii- 

 dropogoii scoparliis, A. gerardi, Ferliiiia 

 stricta, and Kragrostis cilianensis. The 

 inner, or northeast, slope of the ridge sup- 



Fig. 15. — The Cleiidenny hill prairie, northwest of Bellcvicw, Calhoun County. Buihneru 

 americana was common in parts of this prairie. 



ridge shown in fig. 14. .liidropogon sco- 

 parius was the dominant grass; A. gerardi 

 and Boiitflouti ciiriipendula were present. 

 The prairie and a part of the adjacent 

 woodland on the slope to the northe;ust 

 were burned during the autumn of 1950 

 by a fire that swept the bluffs from Rock- 

 port northward to a point be>ond this 

 prairie. 



Glendenny. — When last seen, this hill 

 prairie, located in the northwest quarter 

 of section 12, T. 8 S., R. 4 W., about 2.3 

 miles north of Belleview, Calhoun Coun- 

 ty, covered about 7 acres of the upper- 

 most southwest-facing slope of a bluff. 

 This bluft, fig. 15, served as the pasture 

 of the Clendenny farm. Prairie covered 

 the rocky slope above the rock ledge ex- 

 cept in a few coves where a mixed forest 

 extended upslope. Loess capped the bluff. 

 Prairie covered the spurs and most of the 

 coves ; small trees and shrubs grew in 

 scattered clumps in some coves. On the 



ported both forest and prairie: mixed for- 

 est on the northwest part and a mixture 

 of prairie and forest on the southeast 

 part. Clendcnnv prairie was visited April 

 15, May 27, and September 8, 1950; Au- 

 gust 30 and September 27, 1951. 



Swarnes. — An inscription on the mon- 

 ument* at the crest of the bluff in the 

 northeast quarter of section 35, T. 9 S., 

 R. 3 W., at the north limits of Hamburg, 

 Calhoun Countw furnished the name for 

 this hill prairie. W'hen the site was last 

 seen, prairie occupied about 2 acres of the 

 west- and southwest-facing slope of the 

 ridge. A fence located a few feet north 



•The following inscription appears on this monument : 



In Memory of 



Capl. Lewis Swarnes 



Born 



May 23. 1821 



Died 

 July II. 1867. 

 Lewis Swarnes. accordinK to several residents of Ham- 

 burg, was a riverboat captain. He became ill on one of 

 bis trips and requested that his body should be buried 

 on the blulT overlooking the Mississippi River at Ham- 

 burg. 



