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Vegetation characteristic of wet and swampy localities: 
Button-bush. ~ 
Large Blue Flag. 
Blue Vervain. 
Cardinal Flower. 
Ditch Stonecrop. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis. 
Tris versicolor. 
Verbena hastata. 
Lobelia cardinals. 
Penthorum sedoides. 
Trees encroaching from higher ground: 
Hazelnut. 
American Aspen. 
American Elm. 
Swamp White Oak. 
Large-fruited Thorn. 
Sugar or Rock Maple. 
Carya ovata. 
Populus tremuloides. 
Ulmus americana. 
Quercus bicolor. 
Crategus punctata. 
Acer saccharum. 
Beneath decaying logs and under “started’’ bark, in depressions 
in the bark, in rotting stumps and in crevices, the smaller land 
mollusks, as well as insects, are more or less abundant. 
MOLLUSKS. 
Agriolimax campestris. Common. 
Zonttoides arboreus. Common. 
Vitrea indentata. Rare. 
INSECTS. 
BEETLES. 
Ceruchus piceus. Adult. 
Alaus oculatus. Larva. 
ORTHOPTERA. 
Ischnoptera intricata. Adult. 
LOWER VERTEBRATES. 
Amblystoma jeffersonianum. 
Rana pipiens. 
Jefferson’s Salamander. 
Leopard-frog. 
BIRDS. 
The avian life was abundant, the following species being noted : 
American Bittern. 
Great Blue Heron. 
Green Heron; nesting. 
American Osprey. 
