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used for pasture, or where they can be easily drained for culti- 

 vation, though they are of course in constant danger of being 

 flooded. Under these conditions there are but few wet meadows 

 which have retained their original vegetation. Many of them 

 under continual pasturing have grown up to coarse weeds and 

 grasses. The greatest variety of plants is found where the wet 

 meadow has been used as a hay meadow. This offers more 

 nearly the natural conditions for such plants as L ilium cana- 

 dense (Plate XXVII., A). Habenaria leucophcea, Pediciilaris 

 lanccolata, Saxifraga pennsylvanica, Chelone glabra, Parnas- 

 sia caroliniana, Onoclca sensibilis and many others in the list. 

 The plants which grow in the wet meadows are : 



Angelica atropurpurea, Ly thrum alatum, 



Aster novce-anglicB, Macrocalyx nyctelea, 



Aster prenanthoidcs, Mimulus ringens, 



Aster puniceus, Onoclea sensibilis , 



Aster sagittifolius, Parnassia caroliniana, 



Caltha palustris, Pedicularis lanceolata, 

 Cerastium longipedunculatum, Pimpinella integerrima, 



Chelone glabra, Rudbeckia laciniata, 



Cicuta bulbifera, Rudbeckia triloba, 



Cicuta maculata, Rumex acetosella, 



Doellingeria umbellata, Rumex crispus, 



Dryopteris thelypteris, Saxifraga pennsylvanica, 



Gentiana crinita, Silene alba, 



Gentiana jlavida, Silphium laciniatum, 



Habenaria leucophcea, Silphium perfoliatum, 



Habenaria psy codes, Viola obliqua, 



Lilitim canadense, Zizia aurea. 

 Lobelia syphilitica, 



MOIST WOODS VEGETATION. 



As previously stated the most typical moist woods vegetation 

 is to be found on the north banks of the table lands. The tim- 

 ber on the banks has much of it been left uncut and offers the 

 very best conditions for the survival of moist woods vegetation. 

 In the list of moist woods plants here given are included only 

 those collected or noted from a single location in Winnebago 

 valley. It is a bank about one-half a mile long bordering on 

 the table land for the greater part of its length. Some of the 



