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burs (Xanthium) , Cyperus diandrus, Ve?*besina alba, peppermint, 

 spearmint, spotted touch-me-not, barnyard grass, germander, water 

 hoarhound, all pretty well distributed, with the cockle-bur, touch- 

 me-not, Verbesina and Cyperus most abundant at Long Point, the 

 Teucrium and water-hoarhound most abundant north of Winfield's. 

 There are long patches of bulrushes and chairmakers rushes, the 

 location of which is given in detail under those species, a few 

 patches of arrow-head and pickerel-weed, also described elsewhere, 

 garden parsnip in front of Green's, barnyard grass, and Cicuta 

 bulbifera, the bulb-bearing water hemlock, along the southern 

 shore of the lake. There was a small clump of sand-bar willows 

 at Long Point, but these have disappeared, and below Farrar's low 

 Cornus and Cephalanthus leaned over the shore in places. Where 

 springs entered the lake and flowed over the sandy shore, as at 

 Lakeview Hotel, a species of Chara grows on shore, making a beach 

 plant, and at the entrance of a few creeks watercress grows 

 luxuriantly at the water's edge. In addition to these there is at 

 various times a temporary flora of seedlings of all sorts of winged- 

 seeded plants such as willow, sycamore, elm, Erigeron, etc., but 

 these always soon disappeared. 



Behind the beach in certain places where there is no steep shore, 

 such as along the low woodland at Overmyer's and from there to 

 beyond the Norris Inlet marsh and again in front of a small pond 

 on the southeastern shore of the lake, there is a well-defined ice- 

 ridge. Although this is a well-defined area, differing markedly 

 from the land on either side, especially as regards drainage, it can 

 not on the whole be said to have a distinct flora. The only plum 

 tree close to the lake grows on the ice-ridge, and the only patch of 

 running strawberry bush, Euonymus obovahis, about the lake 

 region was found on the ice-beach in front of Overmyer's low 

 woods. 



The Lake Plains: — These are represented by the Inlet marsh 

 and Lost Lake marsh, the latter including Green's marsh. The 

 soil is mucky, and mucky areas along Aubeenaubee Creek and the 

 Outlet below Lost Lake much of the way down to the Tippecanoe 

 River are of this character as regards both soil and flora. They 

 are flat level plains, densely overgrown with various sedges, chiefly 

 Carex stricta and C. lanuginosa, along with the tall marsh shield- 

 fern, Dryopteris thelypteris. In the Inlet marsh there are plenty of 

 cattails, considerable swamp loosestrife, and scattered Comarum 

 palustre. Green's marsh contains various low shrubs principally 

 Bebb's willow, red-osier dogwood, and button-bush. There was 



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