An Ecological Study of Buckeye Lake. 



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The highway passing thru the northern edge of the town 

 crosses the marsh on an embankment with a culvert to permit 

 the passage of the boats. 



On the east and northeast in the vicinity of Avondale the 

 shore is bordered by rock hihs deeply drift covered. These 

 hills descend abruptly to the lake and are separated by large 

 wooded ravines, the valleys of wet weather streams. 



Many of these ravines are broad, open and low at the foot 



Fig. 10. — Marsh at foot of ravine near Avondale, east side of lake. 

 Typha and Sagittaria in the foreground. Hibiscus dominant in the center, 

 vi^ith Phragmites and Zizania in the distance. 



where they join the lake. The low, open stretches contain shal- 

 low water in which a dense marsh growth has formed, as shown 

 in (Fig. id) where Hibiscus moscheutos, Phragmites phragmites, 

 Zizania aquatica (Wild Rice) and Typha latifolia are the most 

 conspicuous plants. The shore between the ravines is bordered 

 frequently by forest trees, willows at the water's edge, where, 

 undisturbed by the presence of docks and boat landings there 

 has developed a luxuriant growth of fixed acquatics. These are 



