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Veratrum viride* Larix americana. 



Carex umbellata. Asplenium trichomanes. 



Cyperus erythrorhizos. Ophioglossum vulgatum. 



Milium effusum. Phegopteris polypodioides. 



Woodsia obtusa. 



EXTINCT SPECIES. 



The only plant no longer found in the county, but 

 known to have formerly grown in considerable quantity, 

 is the Pitcher Plant, Sarracenia purpurea Mr. W. H. 

 Todd remembers that this used to grow in the old 

 huckleberry swamp near Axtell, in the eastern part of 

 the county. This swamp of a hundred acres extent, is 

 said to have produced yearly hundreds of bushels of 

 blueberries, and a hundred bushels or so of cranberries. 

 About 1856 a fire started in the muck, which lasted for 

 a year, burning in places to a depth of four to six feet. 

 This and drainage killed all the cranberries and nearly 

 all the blueberries, and, how many other species, no 

 body will ever know. It is now overgrown with a 

 dense tangle of blackberry bushes interspersed with 

 aspen and soft maple ; the soil too light to be of much 

 account. Had the original swamp been preserved, it 

 would now be valuable for the berries it would produce. 

 Only after repeated visits and prolonged searching in 

 this wilderness by several persons, were two surviving 

 bushes of the swamp blueberry discovered. Cran- 

 berries, which formerly grew also in a swamp near 

 Berlin Heights, are now confined to a few square yards 

 of ground, along a road near Milan. 



Poison sumach formerly grew in the Axtell swamp. 

 It is now all but extinct in the county. Leatherwood 

 formerly abounded on Beecher's flats along the west 

 branch of the Vermillion River. A single specimen re- 

 mains, probably the only one in the county. A sedge 

 collected on Cedar Point several years ago, and called 

 by Prof. Wheeler, Cyperus Houghtonii, was afterward 

 lost and so is not included in our catalogue. Likewise 



