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Lost Lake formed a choice skulking place for rails, and the fishing 

 or frogging grounds of a great bittern or "thunder pumper" who 

 found the color of the brown stalks a good match for his own 

 brown color. 



Where the cat-tails grow out into the water, as they do north 

 of the icehouses, they check the force of waves and form a kind 

 of harbor where duckweeds and other storm-tossed small organisms 

 may find refuge. Just at the water's edge they form a favorite 

 climbing place for the marsh snail, Succinea, and some of the 

 smaller Polygyras. 



FAMILY 9. SPARGANIACE.E. BUR-REED FAMILY 

 30. SIMPLE-STEMMED BUR-REED 



SPARGANIUM SIMPLEX Huds. 



Although the conditions seemed in every way favorable for sev- 

 eral species of bur-reed, only the above-mentioned species was ob- 

 served, and it was found only at the mouth of Norris Inlet, in a 

 shallow pond, and up Aubeenaubee Creek, not far from the lake. 

 Not seen in fruit, but found in flower in the summer of 1901, 

 June 26. 



FAMILY 10. ZANNICHELLIACE.E. PONDWEED FAMILY 

 31. COMMON FLOATING PONDWEED 



POTAMOGETON NATANS L. 



This, one of the most common and widely distributed of the 

 pondweeds, does not cover large areas in Lake Maxinkuckee, but is 

 frequently found in small scattered patches in shallow water near 

 shore frequently associated with other pondweeds, especially P. 

 pectinatus. It was not noted in water over six or eight feet deep. 

 Among the localities at which it was noted were : a few plants near 

 McSheehy's pier, a good patch near Murray's, a patch south of the 

 old ice elevator, some in lagoons on Long Point flat, a small patch 

 by Darnell's, a dense thick patch near Overmyer's springy flat, and 

 at the delta at the mouth of Spangler's creek. 



It was common in the black muddy bottom at Lost Lake. Here, 

 however, no floating leaves were produced. Some grew in the 

 thoroughfare between the lakes. 



P. natans grows either in sandy or mucky bottom and retains 

 its form and green color after ice has formed over the lake, and 

 probably some plants live the whole winter through. It produces 



