Flora of the . Ulegany State Park Region 179 



The species marked with an asterisk (*) were not found 

 elsewhere within the park area, although some of them 

 were observed and collected in the bogs of the glaciated 

 region a few miles northward near Steamburg and Ran- 

 dolph. Tt would add greatly to the botanical interest of 

 the park area if this swamp and the adjacent land were 

 speedily acquired by the State. The conditions are such 

 that if properly protected, the swamp would increase in 

 size, while on the other hand, many of the rare plants 

 therein are on the verge of extinction if the small amount 

 of arborescent cover now left should be removed or if 

 the place should be opened for pasturage. A line fence is 

 located close along the east side of the present swamp and 

 east of this fence the swamp has been completely cleared 

 away. There remains only the stumps and a marshy 

 pasture of no value. This was evidently at one time an 

 eastward extension of the balsam swamp. 



5 Huckleberry Hill 



Like nearly all of the prominent and rather steep slopes 

 along the western edge of the park area and adjacent to 

 the Allegheny river bottomlands, this hill has been en- 

 tirely lumbered over in the past, and later subjected to re- 

 peated fires, some of them very recent. The total result 

 on the present vegetation is most marked. Huckleberry 

 hill is a part of the lower Chemung series of shales, and 

 there is no reason for not believing that in primeval days 

 it was covered with a dense forest composed chiefly of the 

 hardwood species which prefer the west facing and drier 

 slopes of the region, namely, oak, chestnut, maple, beech, 

 cherry, ash etc. 



Denuded of their primeval forests and subjected many 

 times to fire, the slopes have lost most of their humus 



