LOCATION OF COLLECTING STATIONS 1. State Forest Camp (Fig. 2) : The principal collecting sta tion was the state forest camp and other of the more favorable areas in the immediate vicinity. In fact about 95 per cent of the species herein listed were recorded for the Barber traet. The different associations of this area are quite representative of the Cranberry Lake region and includes forests, swamps, marshes, bogs, hills, flows, tote-roads, trails, burns, and streams.
In addition to the native plants several foreign species, inci dentally carried in with the hay and grain destined for the lumber camps, have become established along the trails and tote-roads. One of the latter almost parallels Sucker Brook and leads through various ecological types, including bogs, beaver meadows, logged area, etc., to Proulx's lumber camp and offered the most favorable and attractive collecting places.
2. Beaver Meadows (Fig. 3) : The beaver meadows are located about a mile from the State Forest Camp along the Sucker Brook tote-road. As the name suggests, these extensive areas have arisen through flooding occasioned by the beaver dams and have replaced a balsam swamp forest which preceded them. As a result of this inundation the balsam (Abies balsamea (L) Mill.)., spruce (Picea rubra (DuRoi) Dietr.), speckled alder (Abuts incana (L) Moench.) and many of the other woody and non-woody plants have been smothered by the higher water level. The dominant plants of the present association, which persist around the borders and on the higher elevations, are grasses (principally Calamagrostis cana densis (Michx.) Beauv.), sedges, rushes, iris, speckled alder, and spiraea (largely Spiraea latifolia Borkh. and some Spiraea tomen tosa L.). Sphagnum is also found in certain places.
3. Forsaith's Bog (Fig. 4) : This is a forest bog located about a mile from the State Forest Camp across the Sucker Brook Trail from the Beaver meadows. An abandoned tote-road, which branches off the Sucker Brook road near camp, winds through this bog again to join with the Sucker Brook tote-road at the farther end of the burn. The plants indicate a secondary association fol
lowing a balsam swamp forest and will ultimately be dominated by the latter. The arborescent forms arc represented by balsam, red and black spruce (Picea rubra and Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP), a few larch (Larix laricina (DuRoi) Koch), hemlock (Tsvga canadensis (L.) Carr.), yellow birch (Betu/a /utea Michx. f.), and soft maple (Ater saccharinum In addition there are willows (Salix. spp.) and some dense thickets of speckled alder. The bog type is represented by Cassandra, Kahula, Ledum,. ac cinium, Nentopanthus, and the less conspicuous forms such as cran berry, aromatic winter green, snowberry, twin flower and the like. The terrene is generally covered with a deep matrix of sphagnum. Certain small areas in this bog are perhaps typically swamp-like or marsh-like. Collections were also made in other bogs, swamps and marshes which represent more advanced stages in the develop ment of their plant associations.
4. Lumbered Areas: The recently lumbered areas in the vicinity of Proulx's Camp and other older logged areas in various stages of recovery were studied. These cut-over tracts were for merly a mixed coniferous and hardwood forest from which most of the soft wood had been removed.
5. Burns (Fig. 5) : The burns on the Barber tract and near Wanakena offered the most attractive breeding places for Hemip tera. The former is a transitional association of fire cherry (Prunus pennsylvanica L. f.) and aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx. and Poplins grandidentata Michx.). The temporary char acter* of the cherry-aspen type is indicated by the presence of yellow birch, beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.), hard and soft maple (Ater saccharinum L. and A, saccharum Marsh), and a small percentage of conifers (spruce, white pine (Pinus Strobus L), hemlock, and balsam) in the understory. The ground cover of seedlings, grasses and other herbaceous plants form a much greater variety than that of the logged, but unburned areas, and virgin forest. There is also a much greater number of the indi vidual plants of the various species.