. A botanical survey of the Sugar Grove region. Plant ecology -- Ohio Sugar Grove Region; Plants -- Ohio Sugar Grove Region Classification. 278 OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY and I'loni year to year in tlu' same place. It is iiuleed the rocky ground in wliicli the seeds of many plants fall and spring up ([uickly but wither away for lack of a root when exposed to the scorching sun. None but the cryptogams in the above list can be considered as constant inhab- itants. Hut they are never fountl without the admixture of soiiu' seed plants, wliether of the species listed above or others. Most of the waifs
. A botanical survey of the Sugar Grove region. Plant ecology -- Ohio Sugar Grove Region; Plants -- Ohio Sugar Grove Region Classification. 278 OHIO BIOLOGICAL SURVEY and I'loni year to year in tlu' same place. It is iiuleed the rocky ground in wliicli the seeds of many plants fall and spring up ([uickly but wither away for lack of a root when exposed to the scorching sun. None but the cryptogams in the above list can be considered as constant inhab- itants. Hut they are never fountl without the admixture of soiiu' seed plants, wliether of the species listed above or others. Most of the waifs here present are stragglers fiom the nearby forest, but two or three are interesting in that they do not occur in tlie forest. A)iibr()sia elatior found but little place in the primaeval vege- tation of the region, since it is dependent on strong illumination, wliieli was denied all of the phmts on the forest floor. It is interesting to find it as a fre(iuent inhabitant of such places, whether as an original native or as an introduced weed. Ili/pi ricuin (IninDrunidii, which. FiK. r A Siiuill J'liiiit of TruiliiiK Arbutus Anions tlie Roots of the i'in Edge of the Cliff. reaches its extieme eastern limits in this area, was foiuid in a single station in such a lichen formation. It was abundant in 1909, but very scantily repi'esented in 1910. Following the Cladonia association is a transitional shrub zone composed of: Vaccinium vacillans Sniildj- rotinidifolia Polyroflium staminium Kalmia latifoUa Gnylosaccia baccnta Lespedeza rrpens Epifiacn repens (fig. 17) Lechea minor Onultheria procumhens Hypiiaccdi .s/). (fm-niiiiii' ttifts) Mitclif ihi rcpenn. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Griggs, Robert F. (Robert Fiske), 1881-1962. Columbus : Ohio State University
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