An Ecological Study of Buckeye Lake. 9 



are included in the description of that region in which they 

 were charted. 



Before proceeding with the paper I wish to make acknowl- 

 edgment to the following persons for the courtesies and as- 

 sistance I have received. To Dr. Alfred Dachnowski under 

 whose supervision the work was done; Dr. C. A. Davis of the 

 U. S. Bureau of Mines, and Professor J. A. Schaffner for as- 

 sistance in the identification of plants ; Mr. H. H. Bartlett for the 

 identification of the Musci and Hepaticeae, Mr. Wilmer Stover 

 for the identification of fungi ; Professor C. E. Sherman and 

 J. R. Chamberlain of the Ohio State University ; Messrs. Bootin 

 and Sawyer of the Canal Commission, and to Captain Chittenden 

 for charts, maps and information concerning the reservoir and 

 lake; Miss Clara Mark and Mr. Lionel King for photographs 

 of local features. 



LOCATION OF LAKE. 



Buckeye Lake, (Fig. i) is situated in Licking, Fairfield and 

 Perry counties in Ranges 17 and 18, Townships 17, 18 and 19. 

 It is a long irregular body of water with its longest diameter 

 from east to west extending from 82° 25' 27" to 82° 31' 12" 

 west longitude, approximately 7^ miles long from east to west, 

 and varying in width from one-fourth mile in the eastern portion 

 to a mile and one-half at the extreme western end, and covering 

 an original estimated area of 4,200 acres. Originally used as a 

 reservoir for the Ohio canal, ^^ on May 21st. 1894, the General 

 Assembly of Ohio passed an act reserving this reservoir for a 

 public park and summer resort to be known as Bucke3^e Lake. 



The site of the lake was a more or less completely tree- 

 covered impassable swamp known to the Indians and early set- 

 tlers as the "Big Swamp," "Two Lakes" or "Big and Little 

 Lake."^- It lay diagonally across the southeast corner of Twp. 

 17 ,and almost half across the southern border of Twp. 19. In 

 the center of this area was a long narrow lake (Fig. 2) fed by 

 several small streams, of which the largest were Buckeye and 

 Honey creeks. The lake drained into the South Fork of the 

 Licking" River. 



