42 Tm: WILSON BULLETIN* No. 59. 



since our first visit ini May, 190o, we can see that the Point 

 has lost considerable land along the shore, nor have we ob- 

 served that there have been any compensating accumulations 

 made at other points on this side. The fishermen tell us that^ 

 the bottom, off shore, is composed of mud, and filled with 

 roots and prostrate tree trunks. On the beach every here and 

 there are often found large regular masses of peat that seem 

 to have been torn up from the bottom and washed ashore in 

 the same manner that Prof. E. L. Mosely describes having 

 taken place immediately across the lake on the Ohio shore at 

 Cedar Point.* 



The western side shows an entirely different aspect. Near 

 the base, between the marsh and the lake, it is narrow, barely 

 allowing room for running a road along its length, but as it 

 proceeds outw'ard towards the end of the Point it gradu- 

 ally widens until, beyond the marsh, the two sides of the 

 ^V" join and give a width of about half a mile. From 

 the base, on the west side to this point, and all be- 

 yond is heavily wooded with deciduous and evergreen trees. 

 Black Walnut, Juglans nigra, is one of the most conspicuous 

 species of the former and Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana, 

 of the latter. In fact, these two with Juniper Juniperus 

 commit nis, are the species that give the most striking charac- 

 ter to the floral aspects of Point Pelee. Here and there a tall 

 White Pine, Pirnis strobus, towers up among the other growth 

 or, as in one or two cases, unite to form piney groves. The 

 extreme end of the Point is covered with a heavy growth of 

 Red Cedar in clumps filled in between with great "beds of 

 Juniper. This growth mixed with Snowberry, Symphori- 

 carpus racemosus, continues down the Point in a sharply de- 

 fined belt between) the beach in front and the deciduous woods 

 behind. A few Red Cedars, however, occur scattered through 

 the woods all along the shore, and in the more barren places in- 

 land, where also the Western Prickly Pear, Opuntia rafines- 

 quii, flourishes. This western shore, moreover, does not seem 

 to be suffering from erosion as is the eastern. In fact it seems 



*Proceedings of the Ohio State Academy of Sciences, 1904, p. 212. 



