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triking contrast to other types of swamp. The conditions here 
are essentially similar to those a aoe throughout our 
northern states and toa Canada. 
The plant- nee of all ee no matter in what section 
of the country they occur, is very much alike. In fact, this is so 
much the case ne a bog can usually be Hecgenteed on ae 
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character of it alone. Especially 
element in i vegetation. Almost Seiad this is aade up very 
been ei ized to “‘haythe.”’ In Europe a bog is also called 
am 
see characteristic tree in bogs i is the black spruce. Farther 
Bogs are also the home of such bizarre forms as the 
ee plant and the sundews, plants which possess the insect- 
catching habit. But from our point of view the outstanding 
feature of a bog is the wonderful development of the sphagnums. 
Almost eed they constitute one of the most prominent 
elements in the vegetatio 
o a certain extent re sphagnums may grow in almost any 
wet, springy swamp, whether it is open or wooded. ut in 
swamps w. wide are situated along rivers, where the ground is 
flooded from time to time with muddy water, they are not apt 
to occur in any profusion. Even farther north, in regions like 
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, where climatic conditions are 
most congenial to their development and where they are mu 
more generally distributed than farther south, the sphagnums 
grow best in the bogs. So abundant asa rule are the sphagnums 
in this particular type of swamp that many bogs are popularly 
referred to as moss bogs 
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