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SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS
VOL. XXV
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NATUFiALE SPECIES RATIOQUE
MADISON, WISCONSIN
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TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
WISCONSIN ACADEMY
OF
SCIENCES, ARTS AND LETTERS
VOL. XXV
MADISON, WISCONSIN
1930
Volume XXV of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy
of Sciences, Arts and Letters is issued under the editorial
supervision of the Secretary.
Chancey Juday,
Secretary.
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CONTENTS
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The National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830.
Curtis Nettels _ _ _ 1
What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose?
Harry Hayden Clark _ 39
Karnoffel, a German Card Game of the Sixteenth Cen¬
tury. Ernst Voss _ _ - _ _ _ _ 51
An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort of the Year 1597
Regulating Dresses, Marriages, Baptisms, etc. Ernst
Voss _ 57
The Diamond Mining Industry of South Africa. Rufus
Mather Bagg _ _ _ _ _ _ 79
The Glover Bluff Structure, a Disturbed Area in the Paleo¬
zoics of Wisconsin. (With Plate 1.) George L.
Ekern and F. T. Thwaites _ _ _ _ _ 89
The Varved Clay Deposit at Waupaca, Wisconsin. (With
Plate 2.) E. W. Ellsworth and W. L. Wilgus _ 99
The Composition of the Fat of the Silver Black Fox. H. A.
ScHUETTE and Ralph W. Thomas _ 113
Determination of Organic Phosphorus in Lake Waters.
Rex J. Robinson and George Kemmerer _ _ 117
The Determination of Kjeldahl Nitrogen in Natural
Waters. Rex J. Robinson and George Kemmerer__ 123
Determination of Silica in Mineral Waters. Rex J. Robin¬
son and George Kemmerer _ _ _ _ 129
Monthly Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States.
Eric R. Miller _ _ 135
The Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes. Nor¬
man C. Fassett _ _ _ _ _ _ 157
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. IV.
Lycopodiaceae, Lycopodium. Leonard R. Wilson _ 169
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Contents,
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Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. V. Coni-
ferales. Norman C. Fassett _ _ _ _ 177
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. VI. Ty-
phaceae, Sparganiaceae. Norman C. Fassett _ 183
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. VII.
Betulaceae. Norman C. Fassett _ 189
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. VIII.
Aceraceae. Norman C. Fassett _ _ _ 195
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. IX.
Elatinaceae — Waterwort Family. Norman C. Fassett 199
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. X.
Haloragidaceae — Water Milfoil Family. Norman C.
Fassett _ _ _ 200
Preliminary Reports on the Flora of Wisconsin. XI.
Ranunculaceae — Buttercup Family. Lois Almon _ 205
Investigations on the Nature of Protoachlya paradoxa
Coker. James A. Lounsbury _ _ _ _ 215
Physiological Studies in Relation to the Taxonomy of
Monascus spp. (With Plates 3 and 4.) Elaine M.
Young _ 227
The Water Mites of the Jordan Lake Region. (With Plates
5 and 6.) Ruth Marshall _ _ 245
The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale, Saissetia oleae
(Bernard). II. The Ventral Glands. (With Plates
7-9.) Wm. S. Marshall _ 255
Wisconsin Herpetological Notes. T. E. B. Pope _ 273
A Second Report on Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes.
E. A. Birge and C. Juday _ 285
The Highland Lake District of Northeastern Wisconsin
, and the Trout Lake Limnological Laboratory. C. Ju¬
day and E. A. Birge _ _ — _ 337
The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. The Genera Euch-
lanis and Monommata. (With Plates 10-26.) Frank J.
Myers _ _ _ _ _ - — 353
THE NATIONAL COST OF THE INLAND FRONTIER,
1820-1830
Curtis Nettels
On January 30, 1824, John Randolph of Roanoke, in a speech
before the House of Representatives, unburdened his mind on
the subject of federal aid to Western development. In the
course of his remarks, he said: “What have we not done for
the West? Do gentlemen want monuments? Unless the art
of printing should be lost, posterity will find them in your stat¬
ute books, and in the journals of this House. They may find
them in Indian Treaties for the extinguishment of title to lands
. . .; in laws granting every facility for the nominal pay¬
ment — and, he might also say, for the spunging, of the debts
due the Government, by purchasers of the public lands — in the
grants, which cannot be found in the older States, for the estab¬
lishment of schools, and for other great objects of public con¬
cernment, for which nothing has been given to the States of the
East. In a word, they would find them in the millions which
this nation has disbursed, and is now disbursing, for the acqui¬
sition of the navigation of the Mississippi, and for the pur¬
chase of Louisiana. If these be nothing . . . then indeed
we have done nothing for the West.'’^
This complaint is symptomatic of the dissatisfaction of the
Old South with the growth of the West and with the increasing
cost of government in the United States. It implies a differ¬
ence between the old states and the new in their relation to the
federal system. Is there ground for such a distinction? Was
it true, as Randolph intimated, that the West was bearing
heavily upon the federal exchequer ? At what expense was the
new section held by the arm of the general government? These
questions raise another question : What is meant by the West
or the frontier in the decade of the twenties? What physical
area did it cover, and why may such an area be regarded as a
unified region, differentiated from the states of the East?
^Annals of Congress, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., 1298-99.
2 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
In a general way, the frontier for the period 1820-1830
may be described as the region embracing the states of Ohio,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi,
Alabama, and Louisiana, together with the three territories of
Arkansas, Florida, and Michigan. If this area constituted in
the twenties a unified section, it was not so because the ratio
of population to territory was uniformly equal in all regions
at all times. Factors and conditions other than an even dis¬
tribution of population gave the section its unity during the
period. These are worth a little consideration in advance.
All of these states, as states, were younger than the federal
government. They differed from the old states in this re¬
spect : — ^the citizens of the old states had established the federal
government after their own state governments had taken form,
whereas the residents of the new states had set up their state
institutions after the federal structure had been erected, and
had appealed to Congress for admission of the new units into
Union. The federal government was the product of the experi¬
ence of the colonies and of the first states; the new state gov¬
ernments, on the other hand, were patterned after the federal
establishment. Many of the new states suffered under legal dis¬
abilities from which the old states were exempt. The new
members were unequal in at least three respects : they did not
enjoy the full advantages of the federal court system; they
could not tax a large part of the land within their borders;
and they did not have jurisdiction over an important popula¬
tion element on their lands — the Indians.
The inequality and newness of the frontier state produced a
condition peculiar to itself. They magnified the importance
of the federal government. For two reasons. By contrast
with it, the new states were weak and faltering, and their
weakness served as a foil to set off the greatness of the national
power. The state capitals on the frontier were often at first
but clearings in the woods; state legislatures met in barns or
log houses; and the income and finances of the governments
were appallingly meagre, compared with the resources of the
nation. In the second place, since the federal government had
a jurisdiction over many frontier concerns which it did not
hold over the old states, it was actually more of a supervising
agency in regard to them than it was in respect to the original
thirteen.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 3
The newness of the frontier had yet another effect. During
the years after the war, the West was peopled principally by
settlers who came from the older states. Under normal condi¬
tions, taking up residence on the frontier meant that the new¬
comer acquired a somewhat national point of view. He lost his
connection with his former state, but his affiliation with the
nation remained unaffected. As a result of this condition, and
because of the weakness of the new state governments, a pre¬
sumption in favor of federal legislation^ — whenever it would
benefit the new states — ^took a strong hold upon the western
voter.
A third condition common to the frontier appeared in a
marked uniformity of opinion on many of its problems of
major importance. In respect to the transportation issue, the
new states stood almost as a unit in favor of federal aid. On
the details of internal improvement schemes, the West might
divide, but on the general principle of federal power it was
unity itself. As for the land question — the new states could
and did stand together on Benton's plan for reducing the price,
and hastening the disposal of the public acres.^ The frontier
as a whole might not agree on a systematic Indian policy, but it
could agree on the policy of pushing the tribes off their pre¬
serves. The same unity appeared when the currency question
was agitated. The cry for more money comes with a common
accent from all parts of the frontier during these years. Many
devices for remedying the evil were proposed, but on the gen¬
eral idea underneath, there was substantial agreement.
Here again frontier conditions heightened the importance of
the federal government in the West, and of the West in federal
legislation. The simplicity and uniformity of life throughout
the Mississippi Valley often prepared its population for united
political action. Such conditions revealed in a clear light the
real effect of the acts of Congress. The frontier responded
readily to proposals respecting land policy, Indian affairs, in¬
ternal improvements, and the currency, because they were in¬
telligible to the ordinary voter, ^ — because they reached down
and touched in an understandable way his fundamental
interests.
2 The Western senators, May 7, 1830, voted 16—1 in favor of Benton’s plan.
Register of the Debates of Congress, 21 Cong-., 1 Sess., 427.
4 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts, and Letters,
One more feature of the West should have a part in a defini¬
tion of the frontier — its attitude toward the future. Interest
in the development of the country is a mark of the Western
man in Congress. If he be from the fringe of settlement, his
interest is in removing the Indians, opening the land, and at¬
tracting population ; if from the region uniting the edge of the
frontier with the East, his interest in trade and transportation
inclines him to support the measures that are deemed neces¬
sary for developing the lands farther on.
In a study of the federal relations of the frontier, the new
states must form the basis of the definition of that area, since
the federal system is concerned, not with population, but with
states. The underlying conditions of the Western states ap¬
pear sufficiently similar to warrant regarding them as defining
the frontier of the then federal Union, and to warrant also an
inquiry into the national cost of the frontier on the basis of
that definition.
Measured by population, the importance of the Western
states grew considerably between 1810 and 1830. The census
figures speak for themselves.
Total
(millions) Western
Percent in
West
14
23
28
Year
1810
1820
1830
7.22 1.
9.65 2.2
12.86 3.7
These figures show that the population of the whole country
advanced during the decade 1820-1830 to the extent of 33 per¬
cent, whereas the population of the West increased to the extent
of 65 percent. For the decade 1810-1820, the West contributed
49 percent of the increase of the total population; for the
decade 1820-1830, it contributed 46 percent. The Western
states, having but 14 percent of the population in 1810, con¬
tributed very nearly as much to the growth of the country in
the following twenty years as did the East, which possessed 86
percent of the total at the beginning of the period.^
Did these population changes affect the cost of the federal
government, and if so, to what extent? Whatever the influ¬
ence of the West, it is clear that the federal government was
“ Senate Document No. 505, 23 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 78, 82, 86, 90, 94, 98, 102, 106,
110, 114, 118, 122, 128.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 5
expanding in the late twenties, and that, in many quarters, this
expansion was not at all welcome. On February 5, 1828, Rep¬
resentative Rives of Virginia presented figures to the House
which revealed that the cost of the government had been mount¬
ing since 1822. The figure for the latter year was about
$9,800,000 ; by 1826 it had reached $13,000,000. These figures
were contrasted by Mr. Rives with others stating the cost of
the government in Jefferson's day — which amounted to ap¬
proximately $3,700,000.^ Representative Mitchell of Tennessee
reported in 1828 that there were then 9338 civil and military
office-holders in the country. He had, he declared, ‘"witnessed
a very strong desire to multiply offices, but no movement for
reform".® Did the West have anything to do with the expan¬
sion? "Tt has pleased some of the Atlantic gentlemen," re¬
marked Senator Noble of Indiana in February, 1827, “not long
since, to say that the People of the West were extravagant in
their demands upon Congress."®
The legislative branch of the government reveals at one point
the effect of the growing West. The aggregate membership of
the two houses, including territorial delegates, rose from 234 in
1820-21 to 264 in 1830. During this time, the combined West¬
ern delegation grew from 45 to 68. Thus, of the 30 members
added to Congress throughout the decade, 23 in number, or 76
percent were contributed by the West."^
Naturally the addition of Western members augmented the
expense of Congress. For the session 1820-1821, the appro¬
priations totalled approximately $372,000; for 1825-1826 the
amount rose to $749,000; for 1829-1830 it stood at $670,000.
During these years, the percentage of Western members was
* Abridgement of the Debates of Congress . . . (New York, 1857-61), IX,
750, 746.
^Ibid., IX, 681.
^Debates, 19 Cong-., 2 Sess., 371.
The growth of the Western delegation was as follows :
Senate House Aggregate Percent
Year Total West Total West Total West Western
1810-11 . 34 6 146 14 180 20 11
1815-16 . 36 8 186 27 222 35 15
1820-21 . 46 16 188 29 234 45 19
1829-30 . 48- 18 216 50 264 68 26
— Annals, 11 Cong., 3 Sess., 9, 381-82; Idem, 14 Cong., 1 Sess., 9, 373-74; Senate
Document No. 505, 23 Cong.y 1 Sess., 142-44 ; Congressional Directory of the
First Session of the Twenty First Congress, (Washington, 1829-30), passim.
6 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
respectively 19, 26, and 26. Thus the cost of the West may be
estimated roughly as follows: — 1820-1821 at |70,800; 1825-
1826 at 1194,800 — 1829-1830 at |174,200. These figures un¬
derestimate rather than overestimate the importance of the
West, inasmuch as travel allowances are considered as the
same for each member of Congress. Actually the Western
members drew larger sums than the Easterners, as the former
obviously had more traveling to do.^
That the Western delegation affected the business of Con¬
gress appears in two striking ways. In the first place, the
Westerners, year by year after 1821, secured a larger percent¬
age of standing committee memberships. Thus, the Western
senators in 1821 occupied 22 of the then total of 70 places, or
31 percent. In 1830, they held 39 places or 45 percent of the
total of 85.^ In the House, the new states in 1820-21 held 19
® The cost of Congress, according to appropriations, year by year.
Members Western
Year Total from West Expense
1820- 21 . $372,816 19 $70,835
1821- 22 . 247,471 20 49,494
1822- 23 . 338,290 20 67,658
1823- 24 . 791,597 26 205,805
1824- 25 . 402,107 26 104,547
1825- 26 . 749,265 26 194,808
1826- 27 . 433,390 26 112,681
1827- 28 . 578,003 26 115,680
1828- 29 . 523,748 26 136,174
1829- 30 . 670,050 26 174,213
—U. S. Statutes at Large, III, 628, 668, 721, 758 ; IV, 3, 11, 79, 85, 137, 142, 208,
246, 321, 337, 377.
® The Standing committees of the Senate :
Places Held by Percent of
Year Total Places Westerners Western Places
1820- 21 . 70 22 31
1821- 22 . 70 24 34
1822- 23 . 70 26 35
1823- 24 . 70 27 38
1824- 25 . 70 27 38
1825- 26 . 80 35 43
1826- 27 . 80 34 42
1827- 28 . 85 36 42
1828- 29 . 85 39 45
— Journal of the United States Senate, 16 Cong., 2 Sess., 22 ; Idem, 17 Cong., 1
Sess., 27-28 ; Idem, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., 21 ; Idem, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., 28-29 ;
Idem, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., 30 ; Idem, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., 32 ; Idem, 19 Cong., 2
Sess., 29-30 ; Idem, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., 28-29 ; Idem, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., 21-23 ;
Idem, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., 23.
Nettels— National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 7
of the 84 places, or 22 percent; in 1828-1829, 32 out of 133
places, or 23 percent.^® Western interests, in addition, brought
about the creation of new standing committees. Between 1816
and 1828 the Senate added eight new committees to its former
list of ten. Of these eight, four dealt with Western matters^ —
public lands, private land claims, Indian affairs, and agricul¬
ture. The House added a committee on private land claims in
1816, one on agriculture in 1821, one on Indian affairs and one
on military affairs in 1822, and one on the territories in 1826.
The House also created yearly a special committee on roads and
canals which was a standing committee in all but name. The
membership of this committee during the twenties was always
at least 60 percent Western.
A survey of the federal statutes enacted during the decade
explains the second manner in which the frontier affected the
work of Congress. The new states may be regarded as a spe¬
cial charge of the federal government, requiring its particular
attention, despite the fact that the territorial days had passed.
The task of isolating laws that pertain to the frontier is not
a difficult one to perform. There are many subjects of purely
a Western aspect. Such are all phases of territorial govern¬
ment, public land policy, admission of new states, Indian af¬
fairs; such are many phases of military and judicial affairs,
and of internal improvements. When the statute books are
combed in making the list of laws distinctly Western, the re¬
sult is truly remarkable, and fortifies the view that Congress,
The standing committees of the House :
Total Percent of
committee Western Western
Year members members members
1820- 21 . 84 19 22
1821- 22 . . . 91 20 21
1822- 23 ... . 119 22 18
1823- 24 ...................................... 119 26 21
1824- 25 ....... _ ........................... 119 27 22
1825- 26 . 119 28 23
1826- 27 . 133 31 23
1827- 28 .................. _ ................ 133 32 24
1828- 29 . 133 31 23
• — Journal of the House of Representatives, 16 Cong,, 2 Sess., 9 ; Idem, 17 Cong., 1
Sess., 9-10 ; Idem, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., 18-19 ; Idem, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., 23-24 ;
Idem, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., 26; Idem, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., 28-29; Idem, 19 Cong.,
2 Sess., 23 ; Idem, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., 25-26 ; Idem, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., 21-22.
8 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
in dealing with new states, had a jurisdiction and a responsi¬
bility that did not at all characterize its dealing with the old
states. As one studies the statutes of the period, one finds that
laws bearing exclusively upon the old states are rare indeed,
but that such acts for the Western states are common occur¬
rences. Thus, in 1822 45 percent of the federal statutes related
to the West; in 1824, 54 percent; and in 1827, 49 percent. For
the other years of the decade the figures range between 32 and
41 percent.^^
If it should be objected that many laws pertaining to the
West were of slight importance, the reply comes that scarcely
a session passed in which a Western measure was not of fore¬
most concern. A list of the debates that would include that on
the Missouri Compromises, on the land question, on the Florida
treaty, on the extension of the judiciary into the West, on in¬
ternal improvements, and on Indian affairs cannot be regarded
as unimpressive or unimportant.
Meanwhile, the judiciary was feeling the force of expansion
that was enlarging Congress. Of a total of 21 district judges
in 1815, only four served in the West. In 1830, the new states
had nine of the then 28. New offices had been created for In¬
diana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama.^^
Naturally, the newly created courts inflated the cost of the
judiciary. According to a rough estimate — rough in that it
understates the expense of the Western courts — ^the cost of
The part of the West in federal legislation :
Total acts Western Percent
Yea/r passed acts Western
1820- 21 . 37 11 29
1821- 22 . 61 28 45
1822- 23 . 68 27 39
1823- 24 . 87 47 54
1824- 25 . 49 16 32
1825- 26 . 91 38 41
1826- 27 . 55 27 49
1827- 28 . 81 29 35
1828- 29 . 45 17 38
1829- 30 . 77 31 40
12 Indiana. March 3, 1817; Mississippi, April 3, 1818; Illinois, March 3, 1819;
Alabama, April 21, 1820; Missouri, March 16, 1822. U. S. Statutes at Large, II,
390-91, 414, 502-03, 564-65, 653.
Nettels- — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 9
justice on the frontier rose from $22,900 in 1821 to $67,900 in
1830, an increase of $45,000 or 196 percent.^®
In the executive branch of the government, the war depart¬
ment felt most strongly the effect of the westward movement.
The expansion of population up the rivers emptying into the
Ohio, the Mississippi, and (to a slight extent) the Missouri,
brought new contacts between the settlers and the Indian tribes.
“The number and importance of the treaties which have been
held with the Indians since the late war,’' wrote Secretary Cal¬
houn in 1822, “the great increase of the annuities and extension
of the frontier have tended very much to increase the dis¬
bursements of the Indian Department.”^^
The period under study opened with a discussion in official
circles of the wisdom of attempting the civilization of the In¬
dians. Presidents Madison^® and Monroe,^® Secretaries Craw-
ford^^ and Calhoun^^ favored such an attempt. In line with
their views. Congress passed an act, March 3, 1819, allowing an
annual appropriation of $10,000 “for the purpose of providing
against the further decline and final extinction of the Indian
tribes”. The amount of this annual grant was not increased
during the twenties. Yet the movement for civilization made
some headway in other directions. Between 1822 and 1829,
various Indian appropriation acts carried 22 items for schools.
13 The
size and cost of the
judiciary :
Pet. of
Total*
Western*
Pet. of judges
Total approp.
appropi. due
Year
judges
judges
in the West
for courts
to West
1821 ..
9
26
$88,150
$22,919
1822 ..
. 35
10
28
112,150
31,402
1823 ..,
. 35
10
28
154,413
43,236
1824 ..,
. 35
10
28
149,500
41,860
1825 ..
. 35
10
28
290,700
81,396
1826 ..
. 35
10
28
240,350
67,298
1827 . .
10
28
241,611
67,610
1828 ..
. 35
10
28
241,100
67,508
1829 ..
. . . 35
10
28
241,800
67,704
1830 ..
. 35
10
28
242,673
67,948
♦Includes both circuit judges and district judges.
— U. S. Statutes at Large, III, 632, 672, 762; IV, 15, 89, 146, 213, 252, 342, 380.
Annals, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 726.
Idem, 14 Cong., 2 Sess., 13.
James D. Richardson, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the
Presidents (Washington, 1895-98), II, 46.
” Senate Document, 14 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 4-7. Report of the Secretary of War
on Indian trade (no number).
Annals, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., 2461-62.
^^lUd., 2527.
10 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
blacksmiths, mills, houses, farming implements, cattle and res¬
ervation lands- — applying to twelve different tribes.^® The total
appropriated came to $213,800. Slight as was this beginning
in teaching the Indians the art of farming and the elements of
book learning, it is none the less important as the real starting
point of a policy that was pregnant with the possibilities of
future expense.
For the most part. Congress saw fit to deal with the Indians
in an opportunistic spirit. The appropriations for civilizing
the tribes were small compared with those which went for an¬
nuities and presents. In 1817, an impending need for such
gifts from the great father was recognized by the acting-Sec^
retary of War. He wrote in January to the House committee
on ways and means, urging an enlarged appropriation for the
Indian department. ‘‘The circumstanced limits of most of the
Indian tribes east of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers,'' he
said, “having rendered their dependence on the chase more pre¬
carious, has produced a more frequent intercourse between
these Indians and the agents of the United States, and a con¬
sequent increase of the issue of rations and presents to them."^^
Some annuities were permanent; others for periods ranging
from six to twenty years. In 1820, the Government's obliga¬
tion under this head amounted to $52,580. By 1828, the figure
had reached $237,600. The total sum for which the United
States was responsible, year by year, during the decade, re¬
veals a widening application of the annuity policy.^^
^ Idem, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 2622-23 ; Idem, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., 3241, 3271; Debates,
19 Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix xxv, xxvi ; Idem, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, xviii ;
Idem, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix, xxxi, xiv; Idem, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 69.
^Annals, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 726.
“ Annuities for the Indian tribes :
Total
Year appropriation
1821 . $152,730
1822 . 168,880
1823 . 168,880
1824 . 190,880
1825 . 190,880
1826 . 241,654
1827 . 237,154
1828 . 237,654
1829 . 233,654
1830 . 211,654
— Senate Document No. 1, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 112 ; U. S. Statutes at Large, III,
690, 749 ; IV, 37, 181-82, 217-18, 232-33, 300-01, 361-62, 373, 390.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 11
These annuities were authorized by treaties with the tribes.
Such treaties entailed other expenses on the War department.
The Indians had to be cared for during the treaty pow-wow.
The treaties often arranged for some instruction of the tribes
in the mechanical arts, granted presents of money or goods,
and provided for the purchase of Indian lands, for the build¬
ing of roads in reservations, for paying indemnities to sufferers
from Indian depredations, and for the survey of special tracts
in which the negotiating tribe was interested. According to
War department estimates, the cost of these treaties rose from
$118,000 in 1821 to $519,000 in 1825.2^
When the executive branch of the government was organ¬
ized in 1789, the management of Indian affairs was assigned to
the Secretary of war. By 1815, the duties of that official had
become so heavy, that Secretary Crawford, during his tenure
of the war office, made vigorous exertions to have the care of
the Indians transferred to a separate department.^^ His pleas
brought no change. Meantime, the Indian personnel continued
to grow. In 1818, there were 15 agencies for the tribes; be¬
tween that year and 1830, 12 new ones were added.^® The em¬
ployes of the Indian service by 1826 numbered 85, earning, all
together, a yearly salary of $58,600.^^
Congress, in May, 1822, created the office of superintendent
of Indian affairs, which agent was domiciled at St. Louis and
given supervision of the trans-Mississippi tribes.^® This act,
however, did not solve the problem of the management of In¬
dian affairs. In November, 1829, Superintendent Thomas L.
McKenny reported to Congress that a re-organization of the
Indian bureau was ‘‘indispensable to its efficiency”. “It is
. . . too powerless to be effective, and too responsible for
its feebleness. ... A new organization has been esteemed
to be important by every head of the Department of War, in¬
cluding the one under whose administration it was created, and
23 Senate Document No. 63, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 8-9.
^ Idem, 14 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 5-6. Report of the Secretary of War on Indian
trade (no number).
^Annals, 15 Cong., 1 Sess., 2583.
Idem, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., 2524, 2530-31; Idem, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., 2612; Idem,
18 Cong., 1 Sess., 3220, 3228 ; Dehates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 105 ; Idem, 20
Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix, xiv.
2'^ Senate Document No. 88, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 102-05.
^^Amials, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 2612.
12 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
recommended by them Experts on Indian affairs drafted
a plan for the desired re-organization which was given the seal
of law in 1834. The new act relieved the governors of the
territories of Florida and Arkansas of duties pertaining to
Indian agents; the governor of Michigan Territory was to be
relieved when a new territory was created west of Lake Michi¬
gan. Twelve agencies survived, but five of these were to be
discontinued soon — at the close of either 1834 or 1836.^® Inas¬
much as the removal policy was now in force, fewer inde¬
pendent agencies were assumed to be needed; the work of the
department might be performed by sub-agents working directly
under the superintendent.
Thus the administration of Indian affairs was simplified
while its cost to the government continued to rise. In 1825,
Representative McDuffie stated that in peace times more money
was spent on Indian affairs than on the navy.^^ An attempt
made in 1820 to reduce the expense of the service had ended in
failure, Secretary Calhoun writing in 1821 that ‘The expenses
of the Department have been accumulating against the Govern¬
ment without the means of meeting them.”^^ By 1832, the
Government had 70,000 Indians under its care — a supervision
which cost $1,352,419 for that year.^^
The appropriations for Indian affairs advanced after 1820 at
a respectable rate. The total for 1830, $1,072,000 — ^as com¬
pared with that for 1820, $462,000 — represents an increase of
$610,000, 132 percent. The trend of expense after 1815 was
steadily upward, indicating thereby possibilities for larger ap¬
propriations in the future.^^
Senate Document No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 167.
^U. 8. Statutes at Large, IV, 735-38.
Dehates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., 247.
Annals, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 726-27.
33 Senate Document No. 55,
44 Cong.,
1 Sess., p. 2.
34 Appropriations for Indian
affairs ;
Year
Total
Year
Total
1811 .
$163,011
1825 .
.... _ $777,856
1820 . . .
462,030
1826 . .
1821 . . . . .
520,745
1827 . .
1822 . . . .
482,625
1828 . .
. 822,282
1823 . . . .
389,380
1829 . .
_ _ ... 727,323
1824 . .
552,805
1830 .............
........ 1,072,579
— Precise references to authorities cannot be given conveniently. The figures were
compiled by thorough scanning of all appropriation acts, and separating the
numerous items for Indian affairs.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1880, 13
The main thing about Indian relations of the twenties is the
mounting cost due to annuities and treaties. Neither of these
items was new to the appropriation lists. Yet they indicate an
important change in Indian policy. The abandonment of the
factory system in 1822 came as a result partly of pressure from
the West.®^ That system was offensive to the Westerners, not
so much because it meant a restriction of individual enterprise
in pursuit of the fur trade, but because it rested on the idea
that the Indians were to be allowed to keep their valuable
hunting lands and to maintain themselves by the chase. The
system came under fire soon after population began to press
onto these lands in the Mississippi Valley. Its abandonment
necessitated a new means of pacifying and caring for the In¬
dians. Such a means was now afforded by making some of
the tribes the wards of the government, — dependent for their
subsistence on its care and bounty. The government changed
its position from that of trade regulator to that of gift dis¬
penser. No alteration in the character of the federal govern¬
ment accompanied this change. But the possibility of expense
inherent in the new policy was considerably greater than in
the policy which had preceded it.
When Representative McDuffie in 1825 estimated the cost of
the Indians as equal to the cost of the navy, he doubtless in¬
cluded in his figure the expense of that part of the army kept
on the frontier for its defense against the tribes. The army of
the United States after the war of 1812 was not a large one.
By the act of March 2, 1821, the legal force of officers and men
was reduced from 10,000 to 6,000.^® Here it stood throughout
the twenties. The actual number of troops in service fell from
9200 in 1820 to 4700 in 1823. Then came a gradual increase,
bringing the force to 5200 in 1830. Small as this force was,
compared even with that of 1817, it was nearly twice as large
as the army of Jefferson's day.
In justifying the increase that had taken place since 1802,
Secretary Calhoun pointed out in 1818 that there were then 73
U. 8. Statutes at Large, III, 679-80.
^ 8. Statutes at Large, III, 615-16.
Annals, 16 Cong., 2 Sess., 791.
Senate Document No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 138.
14 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
frontier posts, as against 27 in the former year.^^ At the close
of the period studied, the Quartermaster General, in reporting
estimated expenditures for 1830, said, “It has been found nec¬
essary to increase the estimates of the Department for the en¬
suing year, under several heads of expenditure. The necessity
. . . results from the extended operations and increased ac¬
tivity of our little army, occasioned by the extension of our
frontiers, and the great increase of Indian force v^est of the
Mississippi. The army being too small to occupy all the points
that require protection, the Government is compelled to supply
the w^ant of numbers by frequent movements. It is believed
that the necessity for movements ’will remain so long as our
citizens continue to extend their settlements westward, and
carry on a trade with the Indians, and the Mexican States. If
the policy of the Government and the circumstances of the
country remain unchanged, every cent will be required.”^®
During the twenties, a somewhat significant change occurred
in the organization of the army. Prior to 1822 it consisted of
two divisions — one of the North and one of the South. In
1821, the war department re-organized the service, abolishing
the old divisions and establishing new ones: the Eastern and
Western. Even before this change, a large part of the army
operated on the frontier. The Western force reached its high
point in 1822, when it consisted of 69 percent of the whole
army. For the other years of the decade, the Western troops
numbered between 56 and 66 percent of the total force.®®
Annals, 16 Cong., 2 Sess., 791.
Senate
Document No. 1,
21 Cong.,
1 Sess., p. 138.
Distribution of the Army
Troops in
Troops in
Pet
Year
East
West
Western
1821 . .
. 1959
3438
65
1822 . .
. 1465
3354
69
1823 . .
. 1798
2969
62
1824 ..
3210
62
1825 . .
3184
61
1826 . .
3622
66
1827 . .
3416
64
1828 ..
2686
56
1829 ..
3128
56
1830 . .
3213
62
— House
Executive Document No. 92,
17 Cong., 1 Sess., p.
3 ; Senate Document
No.
1,
17 Cong., 2 Sess.,
PP. 7-8 ,
Senate Document No.
2, 18 Cong.,
1 Sess.,
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 15
The national expenditure for military defenses falls under
four heads. The most important of these covers the cost of
maintaining the army in action — and includes charges for sup¬
plies, ammunition, arms, clothing, pay of officers and men, and
transportation. A rough estimate of the military cost of the
frontier may be made by comparing the total appropriations
for the army with the number of troops stationed in the West.
Such an estimate will err in placing the Western expense too
low rather than too high. Transportation charges of course
inflated the cost of the frontier forces. Very probably the
Western troops saw more action, and consumed materials and
supplies more rapidly than the Eastern. The total appropria¬
tion for maintaining the army in 1821 was |2,600,000. If 65
percent of the army was then in the West, at least $1,700,000
went for that section. After 1821, the cost of the frontier on
this head ranged from $1,048,000 to $1,750,000.^®
A second branch of the military expenditure relates to pro¬
vision for arming the militia. An act of April 23, 1808 allowed
an annual grant of $200,000 for this purpose.^^ The percent¬
age of the militia in the West rose from 24 in 1821 to 29 in
1830. Hence during the decade the Western share of the ap-
tables 4, 5 ; Idem^ No. 1, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 68 ; Idem, No. 1, 19 Cong., 1
Sess., p. 10. Idem, No. 1, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 180 ; Idem, No. 1, 20 Cong., 1
Sess., p. 48 ; Idem, No. 1, 20 Cong,, 2 Sess., pp. 31-33 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong.,
1 Sess., pp. 56-58 ; Idem, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 88-90.
^ The cost of maintaining the army :
Pet of Army Approp.
Year Total Approp. in West for West
1821 . 2,639,974 65 $1,715,983
1822 . . 2,200,660 69 1,518,455
1823 . 2,207,339 62 1,368,550
1824 . ' . 2,215,204 62 1,373,426
1825 . . 2,277,648 61 1,389,365
1826 . 2,389,894 66 1,577,330
1827 . 2,640,364 64 1,689,333
1828 . 3,125,467 56 1,750,261
1829 . 1,872,679 56 1,048,700
1830 . 2,464,581 56 1,528,040
— U. S Statutes at Large, III, 612, 633, 652-53, 686-87. 748-49 ; IV, 8-9, 36, 82-83,
150-51, 214-15, 267-59, 314, 348-50, 357, 374-75.
II, 490.
16 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
propriation increased from $48,000 to $58,000.^^ In 1884 this
act was still in force. The distribution of the appropriation at
that time shows an expenditure of $120,000 for the new states,
the old states having then but 40 percent of the total militia.^^
One result of the war of 1812 took the form of a change in
policy regarding coast defenses. Presidents Madison and Mon¬
roe, and Secretary Calhoun were the authors of this change,
which aimed at the construction of permanent fortifications at
strategic points along the maritime frontier. Calhoun wrote
in 1818, ‘Tt has been determined by the War Department that
the fortifications which may be hereafter constructed upon the
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico frontiers, shall be permanent
works and of dimensions adequate to the defense of the posi¬
tions or passes which they may occupy. . .
In March, 1822, President Monroe pointed out the importance
of the West in this program. '‘It is known that no part of our
union is more exposed to invasion by the numerous avenues
leading to it, or more defenseless by the thinness of the neigh¬
boring population, or offers a greater temptation to invasion,
either as a permanent acquisition or as a prize to the cupidity
of grasping invaders from the immense amount of produce de¬
posited there, than the city of New Orleans. It is known also
that the seizure of no part of our Union could affect so deeply
and vitally the immediate interests of so many states and of so
“ Appropriation for arming the militia :
Percent of
militia in Expenditure
Year West for West
1821 . 24 $48,000
1822 . 26 52,000
1823 . 25 50,000
1824 . 25 50,000
1825 . 25 50,000
1826 . 27 54,000
1827 . 27 54,000
1828 . 28 56,000
1829 . 28 56,000
1830 . 29 58,000
— Ibid.j House Executive Document No. 107, 16 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 8. Idem, No. 104,
16 Cong., 2 Sess., I; Idem, No. 91, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 2; Idem, No. 108, 17
Cong., 2 Sess., II; Idem, No. 103, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., II; Idem, No. 93, 19 Cong.,
1 Sess., p. 2 ; Idem, No. 130, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 2. Senate Document No. 1,
20 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 126 ; House Executive Document No. 110, 20 Cong., 2
Sess., p. 2a ; Senate Document No. 45, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 4 ; House Executive
Document No. 98, 22 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 2-3.
^ Senate Report No. 61, 48 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 1-2.
House Executive Document No. 56, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., pp .5-6.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 17
many of our fellow citizens, comprising all that extensive terri¬
tory and numerous population which are connected with and
dependent on the Mississippi, as the seizure of that city.
Strong works, well posted, were therefore deemed absolutely
necessary for its protection.
For the defense of the Gulf positions, Calhoun proposed the
following system: (1) a fort at Barrataria, commanding the
entrance into Barrataria bay, (2) one at Placquimine turn on
the banks of the Mississippi, sixty miles below New Orleans,
(3) one at Bayou Bien venue, near Lake Borgne, and covering
the approach to New Orleans through that lake, (4) and (5)
one at Chef Menteur and one at Rigolets, on the margin of the
passes into Lake Ponchartrain, to cover the approach to the
rear of New Orleans and the country above, (6) and (7) at
Mobile Point and Dauphin Island, for the control of the en¬
trance into Mobile Bay.^® When Florida was secured, Pensa¬
cola was added to the list.
The first appropriation came in 1821. During the twenties,
a total sum of |6,684,000 was appropriated for all fortifications.
Of this amount, $2,487,000, or 37 percent was to be expended
for the Western defenses.^^
The fourth branch of army expenditure includes the items
for the construction of armories, arsenals and barracks.
Shortly after the war, a proposal for building an armory on the
Western waters attracted more than ordinary attention.^®
Congress in 1823 voted $5000 for preliminary investigations.^®
« Richardson, II, 119-20. Italics are mine.
House Executive Document, No. 56, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 5-6.
Appropriations for coast defenses ;
Year Total Western
1821 . $282,000 $90,000
1822 . 350,000 180,000
1823 . . 474,000 190,000
1824 . 620,000 335,000
1825 . 874,621 338,000
1826 . 917,000 403,000
1827 . 500,000 106,000
1828 . 917,250 368,300
1829 . 793,393 164,447
1830 . 956,000 313,000
—U. S. Statutes at Large, III, 633-34, 686-87, 783-84 ; IV, 22, 92, 149, 216-17, 256,
310, 356-57, 374.
House Executive Document No. 46, 19 Cong,, 1 Sess., p. 12. Ibid., No, 44, p. 3 ;
House Committee Report No. 349, 23 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 6 ; Senate Document No.
18, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., p, 4.
U. 8. Statutes at Large, III, 788.
18 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts^ and Letters,
No funds to speak of were granted afterwards, and the project
fell through. During the twenties, however, Congress appro¬
priated $1,045,000 for the construction of arsenals and bar¬
racks. Of this sum, $356,225, or 34 percent went to the needs
of the Western service.^®
The total cost of the army rose from $3,196,000 in 1821 to
$3,924,000 in 1830, the Western increase being from $1,897,000
to $2,013,275. For the whole decade, the amount appropriated
came to $33,945,000, the West obtaining 54 percent, or
$18,533,000.^"
The population changes after the war also affected the land
office. In the first place, the number of local offices increased
from 34 in 1820 to 42 in 1830.®^ In the second place, the main¬
tenance of these offices during the period cost the government
a total of $984, 531. In the third place, appropriations to the
^ Appropriations for arsenals and barracks ;
Year Total Western
1821 . ........ $75,000 35,000
1822 . . 16,500 12,000
1823 . .... 62,678 29,178
1824 . 4,135 4,135
1825 . . 52,600 12,000
1826 . . 117,500 23,000
1827 . . 101,752 36,000
1828 . . 155,300 61,000
1829 . . 159,777 59,677
1830 . ... 304,136 84,235
—U. 8, Statutes at Large, III, 633, 686-87, 784, 748-49, IV, 36, 83, 151, 179-80,
217, 241, 304, 355-56, 424-25.
Total appropriations for the army :
Year Total Western
1821 . $3,196,974 $1,897,983
1822 . 2,779,534 1,765^,672
1823 . 2,968,977 1,647,728
1824 . . 3,039,339 1,762,561
1825 . 3,404,869 1,789,365
1826 . . . . ................ 3,684,385 2,117,321
1827 . 3,481,376 1,934,593
1828 . . . . . . .... _ 4,438,017 2,275,561
1829 . . 3,026,905 1,329,680
1830 . . 3,924,917 2,013,275
House Executive Document No. 66, 23 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 3-4.
Cost of local land offices :
Year Total Year Total
1821 . . $82,573 1826 . . . ...... $113,212
1822 ....... _ ..... _ _ 85,930 1827 121,281
1823 . . . . . 61,668 1828 95,766
1824 . . . . ... 105,061 1829 . . . . 109,361
1825 . 114,893 1830 ........... _ ....... 94,807
— House Executive Document No. 170, 19 Cong. 1 Sess., passim; Idem, No. 94, 17
Cong-., 1 Sess., p. 4 ; Idem, No. 16, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 18 ; Senate Document,
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 19
amount of $135,544 were granted for adjusting land claims in
the Western country.®^ And finally, an additional sum of
$1,047,000 was set aside for surveying the public lands.®^
The appropriations for surveys show a falling off during
the Adams administration. This decrease, however, tells but
half the story. In 1833, Commissioner Hayward called the at¬
tention of Congress to 'The absolute necessity of providing in¬
creased means for the surveyors^ offices.” For some years
past, he said, it had been ''matter of notoriety in the several
surveying districts (of which there are now seven) that the
government has failed to accomplish the object of the laws of
Congress in having lands brought into market after the sur¬
veys have been made, for want of force in the surveyors' of¬
fices, by reason of the inadequacy of the appropriation. The
public interest and that of individuals, equally demand that
those surveys be brought into market. Depredations are con¬
stantly being committed on the timber, thereby depreciating in
numerous instances, the value of the land.” "There are,” he
added, "about 400 townships of land surveyed, which cannot
No. 3, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., D; Idem, No. 1, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 265; Idem, No.
1, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 186 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 320 ; Idem, No.
1, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 69 ; House Executive Document No. 3, 22 Cong., 1
Sess., p. 46 ; Idem, No. 160, 22 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 3-6 ; Idem, No. 66, 23 Cong.,
2 Sess., p. 6.
Appropriations for adjusting land claims:
Year Total
1823 . $9,890
1824 . 14,500
1826 . 3,773
— n. S. Statutes at Large, III, 762 ; IV,
Appropriations for land surveys :
Year Total
1827 . $13,000
1829 . 21,366
1830 . 73,015
147-48, 202, 239, 343-44, 381-82, 405.
Year Total
1821 . $165,300
1822 . 113,300
1823 . 216,300
1824 . 106,700
1825 . 135,982
1826 . 93,431
1827 . 39,300
1828 . . 52,300
1829 . 112,350
1830 . 13,300
— TJ. 8. Statutes at Large, III, 631-32, 671-72, 761, 763 ; IV, 14-15, 16, 40, 65,
88-89, 90, 146-47, 212, 251, 341, 343, 379-80, 381.
20 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
be brought into market for want of more clerks and draughts¬
men/’ His estimate of expenditures for 1833 called for an ap¬
propriation of $249,000 for certain expenses and of $110,000
for probable expenses — a total of nearly $360,000/®
As early as 1823, the Chairman of the House committee on
public lands complained of confusion and congestion in the
work of the General land office/^ In 1827, the number of
clerks in its employ was reduced from 24 to 18, on the assump¬
tion that the land operations of the government would become
restricted in the future. This assumption proved erroneous.
By 1830, the Department found itself in a straitened condition.
Commissioner Hayward reported then to this effect: ‘‘Since
that time [1827] the business of the office has greatly increased
and accumulated until, with its diminished assistance, its ar¬
rears have become a serious impediment to the facilities of its
operation. . . . The numerous legislative enactments in re¬
lation to the public lands, and to private claims thereto, since
the year 1820, and especially the several relief laws . . .
have required for their execution an annual amount of labor in
this office equal to that of any previous year since its first
organization.”®® So badly in arrears was the business of the
department, that Commissioner Hayward believed ten addi¬
tional clerks working full time would be needed during the
coming two years in order to bring it up-to-date.®®
Congress moved in 1836 for eliminating the defects in the
land administration. The reorganization then effected pro¬
vided for a commissioner of the General land office, two prin¬
cipal clerks to the commissioner, a principal clerk of surveys,
a recorder of patents, a solicitor of claims, and a secretary to
the commission. The minor personnel of the office was to con¬
sist of 83 clerks and draftsmen.®® This act was the outcome of
the earlier attempt to cut down the cost of the General land of¬
fice. During the twenties, however, the expansion of the de¬
partment had been prevented. The total appropriation for the
“House Executive Document No. 46, 22 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 2-3.
Annals, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., 891-92.
“ Senate Document No. 1, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 60-61.
“/dew. No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 63.
“ U. S. Statutes at Large, V, 109-12.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 21
central administration during the decade amounted to only
|254,300.«i
When the various items for local agencies, surveys, claims,
and central administration are brought together, they show a
total appropriation of $2,421,638 for the ten years under con-
sideration.®^ The money was obviously devoted to purposes
100 percent Western in character.
The cost of governing the territories was likewise a frontier
item. The appropriations under this head advanced from
$13,900 in 1821, to $63,919 in 1830, an increase of 384 percent.
All items granted during the decade amounted to $399,238.®^
The appropriations for navigation and inland transportation
improvement are easily separated into Eastern and Western
items, as the statute always designates the place in which a
given work is to be constructed. At the beginning of the twen¬
ties, the total appropriation for these purposes came to
$131,000. The Western share amounted to but $5,000 or 4 per¬
cent of the total. In 1829 the respective amounts were
Appropriations for General land office :
Year
Total
Year
Total
Year
Total
1821 . .
. $25,910
1824 .
.... $32,550
1827 ,
. . $19,450
1822 ..
. 26,250
1825 .
_ 26,600
1828 ,
. 23,450
1823 . .
. 26,490
1826 .
_ 26,600
1829
. 23,500
1830 .
. 23,500
—U. S.
Statutes at Large, III, 630, 670,
759; IV, 3, 87,
144, 210,
249, 325, 378.
Total appropriations for the public
lands ;
Year
Total
Year
Total
1821 ..
. $273,783
1826 .
1822 . .
. 225,480
1827 .
. 193,031
1823 ..
. 313,348
1828 .
1824
. 258,801
1829 .
1825
. 277,475
1830 .
Total appropriations for
territorial
government ;
Year
Total
1821 .
. $13,900
1822 .
1823 .
. 37,735
1824 .
. 31,978
1825 .
. 34,732
1826 .
. 52,175
1827 .
. 37,846
1828 .
. 56,868
1829 .
. . 65,185
1830 .
. 63,919
—U. S. Statutes at Large, III, 631-32, 672, 761-62; IV, 15, 89, 146, 212-13, 252,
22 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
$1,026,000 and $585,000, the Western portion being more than
50 percent. The appropriation for the West in 1829 was more
than three and a half times the entire appropriation for 1821.
Throughout the decade, the total sum granted equalled
$5,653,000, of which 44 percent or $2,495,000 went for the
benefit of the Western states.®^
By the acquisition of Florida, February 19, 1821, the United
States not only contracted to pay claims to the amount of
$5,000,000, but also greatly enlarged its oceanic boundary. As
a result, the inland frontier of the country acquired an ex¬
tensive coastline — reaching now from the Sabine river to the
southern part of Georgia^ — a stretch nearly as long as the coast¬
line of the older Atlantic settlements. The trade of the inte¬
rior, drawn together at New Orleans, and seeking its outlet
around Florida, gave this section of the maritime frontier a
yearly increasing importance, and made a perceptible impres¬
sion on the naval policies of the federal government.
At the close of the war. Congress adopted a program for the
gradual improvement of the navy. From 1821 to 1830, an an¬
nual appropriation of $500,000 for this purpose was in force.®®
In addition, five separate grants totalling $1,272,350 were au¬
thorized between 1821 and 1828 for procuring vessels to com¬
bat piracy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Piracy in the waters through which passed the trade of the
West presented one of the main difficulties that confronted the
navy during the fifteen years after the war. In the contest
^ Appropriations for internal improvements, etc. :
Percent
Year Total Western Western
1821 . $131,291 $5,000 04
1822 . 162,428 15,750 09
1823 . 333,361 46,920 14
1824 ' . 389,633 197,500 51
1825 . 400,814 223,460 55
1826 . 727,354 307,479 41
1827 . 526,059 341,773 65
1828 . 1,196,298 382,230 32
1829 . 1,026,850 585,363 57
1830 . 779,433 379,805 48
—U. S. Statutes at Large, III, 632, 643-44, 672, 698-99, 728-29, 762, 780-81 ; IV,
5-6, 15-16-22, 32, 38, 48, 61, 71, 83, 90, 94, 100, 101, 124, 128, 132, 133-34, 135,
139, 147, 151, 162, 169, 170-71, 175-76, 213, 214-15, 227, 228-29, 230-31, 241-
42, 244, 253, 275, 282-83, 290, 303, 329, 343, 345-46, 348-50, 351, 353, 363, 381,
394-95, 427-28.
^lUd., Ill, 642; IV, 242-43.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 23
between Spain and her revolted colonies, the Spanish com¬
mander, General Morales, blockaded 1200 miles of the coast of
the Spanish Main and interdicted all foreign commerce therein
as contrary to the laws of the mother country. This order,
declared a report of the House committee on foreign relations,
January 31, 1825, had ‘‘been the fruitful source of most of the
evils since suffered by all commercial nations in the West Indies
and in the Gulf of Mexico. Numerous pirates and swarms of
privateersmen, (subsequently degenerated into pirates)’' had
“preyed upon all neutral commerce.”®® Of the danger of this
piracy to the Gulf states. Senator Johnson of Louisiana said in
1822: “The Gulf of Mexico . . . had, for a series of
years, been infested by a horde of pirates, who had captured a
great number of our vessels, and murdered the crews of many
of them in the most shocking manner. The depredations of
those freet-booters had not been confined to the sea; they had
also engaged in smuggling goods, and introducing negroes into
the State of Louisiana, in violation of the laws of the United
States, and have even been so daring in their atrocities as to
commit violence in the interior of the country, and to carry off
the property of the inhabitants. These evils had prevailed to
an alarming extent, and called for the most prompt measures
to arrest them.”®^
The interest of the West in suppressing this piracy is not
hard to comprehend. Representative Cook of Illinois described
it in 1825 in this manner : “The Western country knows and
feels that it is dependent for its prosperity, to a very great ex¬
tent, on the owners of our shipping. It is through them that
the trade of the interior gets an outlet to the ocean, and it has
experienced the vast advantage which has been conferred by
the navy on the security and advancement of the commerce of
the country. The West has an extensive interest in enjoying a
market for its product. In the state of the country, the only
market for a very large portion of the interior is found at New
Orleans ; and the Western States have, therefore, a direct con¬
cern in the protection of the trade in the Gulf of Mexico.”®®
An act of March 3, 1819, delivered the first blow in the war
on piracy. This act authorized the President to use as many
Debates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 49.
Annals, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 151-52.
^Debates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., 733.
24 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
public armed vessels as necessary to protect American ship¬
ping.®® Senator Johnson in the session of 1819-1820 tried to
get more ships added to the navy for special service against the
pirates in the Gulf.'^® An act of May 15, 1820 appropriated
f60,000 for small vessels, not more than five, which could be
used in shallow water. Senator Johnson continued his labors
during the session of 1821-1822. At this time, the House com¬
mittee on foreign affairs reported favorably on the plan. “The
Committee,'' ran the report," are also of opinion, that, extended
as the American coast has now become, the danger of smug¬
gling has considerably increased, and that both these considera¬
tions [i. e. piracy and smuggling] recommend the employment
of an ample force, which, by scouring those seas, shall have the
effect of driving the present free-booters from the ocean.
>>72
President Monroe in December 1822 advised the organization
of a special force adapted for pursuing the pirates into shallow
waters.^® Congress acted on the recommendation, and before
the end of that year voted $160,000 for the desired force.^^ So
persistent were the pirates that stronger measures were needed.
In December, 1824, the President reported that the pirates were
still molesting American trade, and urged further action.'^^ A
bill was introduced in response to this appeal. When enacted
into law, it appropriated $500,000 for building ten sloops of
war. This act also discontinued the naval service on Lakes
Erie, Ontario, and Champlain.^®
The appropriation thus authorized did not prove large
enough to cover the cost of constructing the designated ships.
Consequently, Congress allowed a second grant of $350,000 in
March, 1826,^^ and a third grant of $201,350 in 1928.'^® The
total appropriation for building sloops of war against piracy
thus reached the figure of $1,051,350.
During the debates on the bill of 1825, Representative Ross
^Annals, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., 2523.
Idem, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 151.
Idem, 16 Cong., 1 Sess., 2239, 2614.
'‘‘^Annals, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., 173.
’’^Idem, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., 249.
'^lUd., 1337.
''’^Debates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 6.
Ibid., Appendix, 117.
” Idem, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix, xix.
Senate Document No. 2, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 250,
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier , 1820-1830, 25
of Ohio referred to estimates of the navy department to the ef¬
fect that the operation and upkeep of these ten sloops of war
would cost about $610,000 a year/^ In each of the three years,
1826, 1828, and 1830, Congress augmented the regular Naval
Appropriation Act by a supplementary act, making provision
for the maintenance of the new piracy force.®® These meas¬
ures proved sufficient unto the need. In December, 1826,
President Adams announced that the pirates had been “totally
suppressed,®^ and thereafter the officials of the navy reported
annually that they had the situation in hand.®^
One result of the war on piracy was the establishment of a
naval yard at Pensacola. In November, 1823, Commodore
Porter advised that a naval depot be constructed there, “as a
proper security for our commerce, and the permanent union of
the States.”®® By an act of March 3, 1825, Congress appro¬
priated $100,000 for the Pensacola yard,®^ the purpose of which,
in the words of John Rodgers, a captain in the naval service
against the pirates, was to provide “security and protection of
the immense amount of commercial products to which the Ohio,
the Mississippi, the Missouri, and their almost numberless trib¬
utary streams are continually giving vent.”®^ Secretary South¬
ard in December 1826 reported that the work had been under¬
taken and that the appropriation of $100,000 would not cover
all the costs, “as the erection of works in that portion of the
Union is very expensive.”®® By the construction of this sta¬
tion, the land frontier obtained one of the major naval yards on
the coast. In 1828, there were seven of these in all — at Ports¬
mouth, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk, Boston,
and Pensacola.®^
The expansion of the United States in territory, commerce,
and population brought to the navy a new task, not only in the
Gulf of Mexico, but also in the Pacific. In 1824, President
Monroe called attention to the growing trade interests of the
'‘’‘Debates, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., 733.
U. S. Statutes at Large, IV, 152, 311-12, 371.
Senate Document No. 1, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 15.
*2 House Executive Document No. 2, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 199; Senate Document
No. 1, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 134 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 34.
^ Idem, No. 1, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 197-98.
^Debates, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 1580.
Senate Document No. 2, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 232.
Idem, No. 2, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 8.
^'‘Debates, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., Appendix, 32.
26 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
United States with the Northwest coast and recommended that
a frigate be sent to explore the coast near the Columbia, pre¬
paratory to establishing a naval-military base on the Pacific.®®
Secretary of the Navy Southard wrote in the same year : ‘‘Our
commerce . . . has increased so rapidly there, and is scat¬
tered over so large a space, that an addition of one or more ves¬
sels would be made, if that were within the control of the De¬
partment.'' “This addition," he continued, “wHl become indis¬
pensable, should the Government be disposed to make perma¬
nent provision for the protection of our commerce, and other
interests in the neighborhood of the Columbia river, and on
the Northwest coast. Constant experience shows the import¬
ance of such augmentation of the number of our vessels as will
enable the Government to add to the force in the Atlantic and
Pacific. Inconveniences are felt, and losses are sustained by
our citizens, which might be prevented, were the means of their
protection enlarged."®® In 1827, Secretary Southard reverted
to the subject: “Our trade on the Northwest coast — our ex¬
tensive whale fishery, all demand the vigilance of Govern¬
ment — and the Government, duly estimating the interests of the
country, have wisely stationed a portion of our Navy in that
ocean, to protect our property and preserve our rights."®® In
1823, the Pacific squadron consisted of two vessels carrying 56
guns; in 1826, of five vessels carrying 136 guns; in 1829, of
four vessels carrying 92 guns.®^
The appropriations for the navy cannot of course be sepa¬
rated into Eastern and Western items. Even in the case of the
Gulf piracy, where Western interests were so conspicuously
concerned, other elements than frontier trade entered — such
as the seaboard trade with the West Indies, with Central
America, and with South America. There is no way of tell¬
ing how much of the increased cost of navy maintenance after
1821 was entailed by the expansion of the country westward.
But there is no doubt that the growth of the Mississippi Valley
trade and the rising interest in the far West did contribute to
the enlarged appropriations for naval affairs. A modest esti-
^ Idem, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., Appendix, 7.
Senate Document No. 1, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 112,
“House Reports No. 56, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 1.
Senate Document No. 1, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 116-17 ; Idem, No. 2, 19 Cong.,
2 Sess., pp. 10-11 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 222.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830, 27
mate of frontier influence would include at least the $100,000
for the Pensacola yard, and the $1,272,350 granted for the war
on piracy. During the late twenties occurred the first increase
in the naval force of the Pacific. This was but the beginning
of a development by which the expansion of the country ulti¬
mately enlarged the navy far beyond the expectations of the
Jeffersonian democrats.
An analysis of appropriations between 1815 and 1830 re¬
veals the failure of an attempt to reduce naval operations and
costs. The effort succeeded until about 1823. The total
amount granted fell from $3,954,000 in 1816 to $2,700,000 in
1821. Then followed a steady rise until the sum of $4,287,000
was reached in 1830. For this failure to keep operating costs
down during the twenties, the activities of the Gulf pirates,
and national interests in the Oregon country were largely re¬
sponsible.®^
The striking thing about the Post Office during the period
discussed was its phenomenal expansion. President Adams re¬
ported in his second annual message that the increase of postal
revenues during the three preceding years exceeded the total
amount of receipts in 1801.®^ The gross postages paid rose
from $1,029,000 in 1821 to $1,850,000 in 1830.®^ The number of
clerks engaged in the Department at Washington advanced
from 21 in 1816 to 45 in 1830.®® The aggregate number of all
Appropriations for the navy ;
Gradual War on
Year Maintenance improvement piracy
1816 . . $2,954,911 $1,000,000
1820 . . 2,992,035 1,000,000
1821 . . 2,209,092 500,000 $60,000
1822 . . 2,216,733 500,000
1823 . 2,333,019 500,000 160,000
1824 . 2,523,663 500,000
1825 . 2,654,787 500,000 500,000
1826 . 2,737,880 500,000 350,000
1827 . 3,205,746 500,000
1828 . 3,914,400 500,000 201,350
1829 . 2,591,686 500,000
1830 . 3,787,361 500,000
—U. S. Statutes at Large, m, 634-35, 642, 650-51, 676-77, 720, 763-64; IV, 20, 83,
127, 131, 140, 152, 170, 206, 242, 254, 304 311, 343, 360, 370, 371, 375.
Senate Document No. 1, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 15.
House Executive Document No. 140, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 10-11; Idem, No.
76, 17 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 3; Idem, No. 95, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 118; Senate Docu¬
ment No. 21 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 51.
House Document, Letter of Secretary of Treasury on estimated expenditures
for 1816 (no number), p. 22; Idem, No. 97, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 1-3.
28 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
persons engaged in the work of the service for 1825 was stated
to be somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000. In 1828, the
figure had leaped to 26,956.®® So also the number of local post
offices increased during the decade — from 4976 in 1821 to 8004
in 1829. In 1829, there were about 2006 post offices in the
Mississippi Valley — more than the total number in the whole
country in 1807, and more than twice as many as in 1800.®^
The cost of the service mounted from $1,165,000 in 1821, to
$1,933,000 in 1830.®® Obviously the West contributed to this
growth. In 1829, Postmaster General Barry, in referring to
renewals of contracts made in that year, for the states of Indi¬
ana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and
the Territory of Arkansas, remarked, “The rapid increase of
population in these sections of country, required considerable
improvements in the frequency, the celerity, and the mode of
transporting the mail on the leading routes, for which provision
has been made in the renewal of contracts.''®® In November,
1830, the same Secretary reported that in many states “im¬
provements in mail facilities have been loudly called for; and
in many instances, the growing population and extending set¬
tlements of the country have absolutely required them."^®®
During the year 1833, the entire mail service cost $2,033,000 —
and of this sum, $641,000, or 31 percent, was spent on the
routes in the three territories and the nine Western states.
This figure is larger than the total amount expended on the
Senate Document, No. 2, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 168; Idem, No. 1, 20 Cong.,
2 Sess., p. 180.
^ House Executive Document No. 40, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 11 ; Senate Document
No. 1, 20 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 179; House Executive Document No. 76, 17 Cong., 1
Sess., p. 3 ; Idem, No. 7, 17 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 5 ; Senate Document No. 1, 20 Cong.,
1 Sess., p. 259 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 43 ; House Executive Document
No. 119, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., pp. 64-88.
The estimates for the Post Office differ from those presented for the other
branches of the Government in that the former represent actual expenditures ;
the latter appropriations The inconsistency of using two different kinds of fig¬
ures, however, is more apparent than real. Appropriations over a long period
necessarily approach expenditures very closely in the end, because any unex¬
pended balance of one year’s appropriation is carried over to the next year, and
the new appropriation is correspondingly reduced. Thus, although appropriations
may not equal expenditures in a given year, the total of one will approximate
that of the other during a period of ten years. Neither appropriations nor ex¬
penditures alone can be used throughout the years studied. No figures for ex¬
penditures are available until about 1823 ; on the other hand, no appropriations
were made for the running expense of the Post Office.
Senate Document No. 1, 21 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 46.
Senate Document No. 1, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 52.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 29
whole post office in 1810.^^^^ The cost of the Western branch of
the service cannot be accurately determined for the twenties.
A conservative estimate shows an increase from $244,000 in
1821 to $580,000 in 1830.1^^
Inasmuch as the present study deals with current federal
operations, a survey of the total cost of the government need
not include items that represent obligations incurred in the
past. Such items are (1) interest on the public debt, (2) pen¬
sions for soldiers of the Revolution and of the War of 1812,
(3) payments made to Georgia as a result of the Mississippi
cession, and (4) an appropriation of $250,000 for the relief of
sufferers in the War of 1812. The following table is an esti¬
mate of all the money appropriated between 1820 and 1830
which went for Western needs:*
Year
Total
Western
Percent
Western
1821 _ _
_ $9,465,712
$3,167,416
33
1822 _ _
__ _ _ 8,971,917
2,829,818
31
1823 _ _
9,362,791
2,969,735
31
1824 _
_ __ 15,304,115
8,316,758
54
1825 _ _ _
__ 11,425,279
4,189,973
36
1826 _ __
_ _ _ 12,508,980
4,681,880
37
1827 __ __
11,761,016
3,731,814
31
1828 _ _ __
_ __ 14,829,329
4,634,790
31
1829 _ _
_ _ 12,188,960
3,863,808
31
1830 _ _
_ _ _ 14,338,983
4,556,429
31
House Executive Document No. 505, 23 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 6.
102 Expense of the post office :
Year
1821
1822
1823
1824
1825
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
Total
Western
Percent
Western
$1,165,481
$244,751
21
1,169,885
245,675
21
1,170,144
245,730
21
1,206,584
265,448
22
1,309,316
301,142
23
1,373,239
329,577
24
1,623,893
422,212
26
1,782,132
496,996
28
1,932,707
579,812
30
1,933,559
580,067
30
— House Executive Document No. 140, 15 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 11 ; Idem, No. 76, 17
Cong., 1 Sess., p. 3 ; Idem, No. 2, 18 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 260 ; Senate Document
No. 1, 18 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 173 ; Idem, No. 2, 19 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 165 ; Idem,
No. 1, part IV, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 133 ; Idem, No. 1, 20 Cong., 1 Sess., p.
259 ; Idem, No. 1, 21 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 51 ; House Executive Document No. 2,
22 Cong., 1 Sess., p. 46.
• See appendix for itemized account for each of the years.
30 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
By the time the administration of John Quincy Adams had
reached the middle of its course it encountered an attack from
its opponents on the issue of federal expenditure. Between
January 22 and February 6, 1828, a debate on retrenchment
consumed most of the time of both houses.^®^ In this debate,
three elements of dissatisfaction were perceptible. First ap¬
peared the charge that Adams had made corrupt use of the
patronage. Secretary Clay, continued the criticism, was guilty
of extravagance in managing the State department. Finally,
the leaders of the seaboard South expressed their disapproval
of the growth of the federal government in general.
‘‘The time has now arrived,'' said Representative Floyd of
Virginia, '‘when this house is bound to do something decisive
in its character. Heretofore the operation of this government
has been, in a great degree, beyond our limits, and confined
to objects of a constitutional character, but now a new era has
opened upon us, and we are about to feel the calamitous conse¬
quences which its measures and policies are destined to bring
upon the people."^®^ A few days later. Representative Rives,
also of Virginia, spoke in the same vein : "The tree of Execu¬
tive patronage is continually throwing out new shoots and
branches, which constantly call for the application of the prun¬
ing knife."^®® The Adams administration, he continued, had
"been in striking contrast with the self-denying republicanism
of Mr. Jefferson. Instead of renouncing the exercise of power
which the laws and constitution had given them, we have seen
them laying claim to powers which are sanctioned by neither;
instead of the suppression of unnecessary offices, and the cur¬
tailment of Executive patronage, we have seen them rapidly
multiplied and increased, under their auspices; instead of rec¬
ommending the limitation of Executive discretion over the pub¬
lic disbursements, we have seen them asking for large grants
of public money, to be expended at their mere will and
pleasure."^®®
John Randolph stressed the importance of the sectional as¬
pect of the expansion of the government. In the course of his
remarks, he pictured the distress of the Virginia planters. For
wz Abridgement of Debates, IX, 668-69.
^^Ibid., IX, 682.
^^'^Ibid., IX, 743.
^^^Ibid., IX, 748.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 31
every one of them, he declared, who was making one percent
on his investment, twenty others were losing heavily. The
country was in ‘‘an unexampled state''. He could “remember
nothing like it", though he recalled the times of Cornwallis's
march through the South. “And why is this?" he asked. “Sir,
we have been legislated into this thing — would to God, we
could be legislated out of it again. . . . But no, sir, our
sons must be educated at the public expense, and when the
people are in distress we must look from their own or our own
improvidence for some road, or some canal, or some woolen
manufactory" and “ascribe the disease to anything but the
true cause, unwise legislation and prodigality."^®^
In Randolph's estimation, the growth of the West was the
source of the woes of his section. The act which had ruined
the old South was the cession of the Northwest Territory by
Virginia. This had drained off population from the seaboard,
extended the frontier, and increased the operations of the fed¬
eral government. On one occasion during the retrenchment
debate he exclaimed: “Sir, it seems I committed a great of¬
fense in not voting for the admission of the new States into
the Union. . . . Yet sir, if the thing were to do over again,
I should act precisely in the same manner, and past experience
would teach me I was right. What were the new states ? Vast
deserts of woods, inhabited by aborigines, to whom if we come
to the question of right, they did of right belong; and it was
a question whether sound policy would dictate that we ought,
by creating these states, encourage sparse settlements, and
thereby weaken our frontier. I thought this was bad pol-
icy."io8 These remarks were occasioned by his feeling “that
the expenses of this government are too high ; that they ought
to be reduced — “that retrenchment is required both by the
circumstances of the country, and by the voice of the people."^^®
In reply to the critics of the administration, its defenders
asserted that the cost of the government was not abnormally
high. It was futile, they said, to expect that cost to remain
stationary while the country was growing rapidly — ^futile to
compare the expenditures in Jefferson's day with those of 1827,
Ibid., IX, 677-78.
^^^Ibid., IX, 717.
^^Ibid., IX, 676.
^^^Ibid., IX, 675.
32 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
when the material condition of the country was so greatly ah
tered. Representative Sergeant of Pennsylvania estimated
that the expense in 1827 for civil, diplomatic, and miscellane¬
ous purposes amounted to only $2,600,000. “This expenditure
. . . he explained, “provides for the following objects:
The whole of the Legislature of this Union of twenty-four
States . . . : the whole of the Executive . . . ;
the expenses of the Post Office Department, covering a greater
extent of territory, and diffusing a greater amount of accom¬
modation than any other known establishment of that kind:
the surveying of the public lands : the Mint establishment of the
United States: the Governments of the three territories: the
whole Judiciary . . . : the light-house establishment:
the whole of the expenses of our foreign intercourse, and some
miscellaneous items. “Is it not rather amazing,'^ he asked,
“that a Government, extending over twenty-four states and
three territories, embracing so large a space, and so great a
population, and providing adequately for all, should be carried
on at so small an expense?''
The Jacksonian Westerners who rose during the debate com¬
plained along with the spokesmen of the old South of the ex¬
cessive costs of government. But the targets of Western criti¬
cism were Clay and his conduct of the foreign office, and
Adams's use of the patronage. None of the Westerners com¬
plained that too much money was being spent on their section.
Yet, when the appropriations of the period are analysed, they
show the frontier a principal factor underlying the expanding
cost of the federal government. The Western influence is re¬
vealed in appropriations for Indian affairs, for the army, for
the post office, for the judiciary, for the public lands, for in¬
ternal improvements, for Congress, for territorial government,
and even for the navy. Instead of complaining of the extrava¬
gance involved in these expenditures, the Westerners were ap¬
pealing for larger and larger appropriations, — for schools,
roads, canals, removal of Indians, coast defenses, judiciary ex¬
tension, land surveys, new postal routes, river improvement,
and military protection of the frontier. The demand of the
Jacksonian Westerners did not strike at the root of expansion
IX, 731.
IX, 731.
Nettels — National Cost of the Inland Frontier , 1820-1830. 33
as did the complaints of the seaboard Southerners like John
Randolph and Representative Rives.
In the distribution of federal expenditures may be found a
source of sectional misunderstanding and conflict. The East¬
erners and Southerners who realized how much of the cost of
the government went to Western uses felt that the West was
not a neglected part of the Union. But the Westerners them¬
selves were not satisfied. Despite the money spent in the
Westj they still felt that they were receiving but a small frac¬
tion of the bounty of the government. This condition could
exist because the money which was spent for the West was
spent in the East, to the advantage of Eastern merchants and
contractors. Consequently, the Western states did not receive
the important though incidental benefits of expenditures in the
shape of increased sales for local Western merchants, or of an
augmented supply of good money necessary for making trade
active on the frontier. Therefore, while the Southerners were
saying that the West was ‘‘amply provided for”, the Westerners
were saying that federal policies drained their localities of good
money, and that the system of public disbursements was de¬
signed to keep the West in commercial dependence upon the
East.
The growth of the inland frontier after 1815 was one of the
principal factors forcing the federal government to expand.
Beginning its career as a feeble, restricted body. Congress pos¬
sessed one source of infinite power — ^its control over the public
lands. With these lands it could do as it pleased; here it
could exercise an influence such as it could never exert in the
original states. Because of this fact the needs of the West in
later days increased the activities of the federal government.
Territorial administration, land sales, Indian affairs, the crea¬
tion of new states — ^these and other matters gave Congress a
sense of the fullness of power. Did not Jefferson abandon
strict construction in order to extend the Western territory and
to advance in many ways the interests of the frontier? In the
years after 1815 the West forced a liberal interpretation of the
Constitution on the subject of roads and canals. The line be¬
tween the old states and the new states became indistinct, and
that between the new states and the terriories even more
nebulous. By 1830 it seemed apparent to many that a literal
34 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
constitution adopted for thirteen small states could not satisfy
all the needs of an enlarged nation.
The growth of the country brought new requisitions, multi¬
plied national offices and office-holders, and forced the federal
government upon a more extended course than the strict con¬
structionists had ever anticipated. No small part of this
growth was the increase of expense to which the frontier con¬
tributed in such a material way. The West occasioned more
than a third of the federal expenditures at a time when it had
only a fourth of the inhabitants of the country. Inasmuch as
most Western interests were matters of federal concern, the
growth of settlements stimulated that physical expansion of
the federal system by which it was transformed from a loose
union of a few proud states into a continental government
stronger than its single members.
APPENDIX
COST OF THE GOVERNMENT BY YEARS
Table
1=
-1811
Total items
Amount
Western items
Amount
Congress . .
$236,825
Congress . . . .
$21,404
Army . . . .
2,985,685
Army . . .
1,414,971
Judiciary . .
105,000
Judiciary . .
15,750
Indian affairs .
163,011
Indian affairs .
163,011
Navy . . .
1,920,266
Post office .............
69,435
Civil, etc.* . . . .
745,787
Land office ............
163,300
Post office .
495, 969
Territorial Govt. . . .
70,613
Navigation, etc.** .
163,072
Navigation, etc . . .
60,000
Census .
150,000
Census . .
21,000
$6,995,685
$2,029,384
Table
II-
--1820
Total items
Amoujat
Western items
Amount
Congress . . .
$456,300
Congress . .
$86,697
Army . . .
4,604,373
Army . . . .
. 2,073,145
Judiciary . . . .
87,500
Judiciary . . .
22,750
Indian affairs ...........
462,030
Indian affairs . .
462,030
Navv . . . .
3,992,035
Navy . .
60,000
Civil, etc .
1,684,801
Land office ............
317,418
Post office .
1,160 , 926
Territorial Govt .
25,722
Navigation, etc. ..........
382,463
Navigation, etc . .
187,300
Census . . . .
240,000
Census . . .
55,200
Pnst Office .
243,794
$12,870,428
$3,538,564
* Civil, etc. : President,
Vice-president,
executive officers, public
lands, mint,
treaty executions, relief of
seamen, public buildings, diplomacy, territorial govern-
ment. revenue service, claims against the government.
** Navigation, etc.: Lighthouses, buoys, river improvement, harbors, roads,
canals.
N ettels—N aUonal Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 35
table TII™1821
Total items
Amount
Western items
Amount
. . . . . 1372,816
Congress .............
$70,835
. . . . . 3,196,974
Army ................
.. 1,897,983
Judiciary ..........
Judiciary .............
22,919
. . . . . 520,745
Indian affairs .........
520,745
Navy ..............
Post office ............
244,751
. . . . . 1,281,163
Land office ............
273,783
. . . . . 1,165,481
Territorial Govt. ......
13,900
Navigation, etc. ....
Navigation, etc. .......
5,000
Acquisition of Florida . ,
117,500
$9,465,712
$3,167,416
Table
IV— 1822
Total items
Amount
Western items
Amount
Hongress . .
$247 471
Congress .............
$49,494
Army .............
. . . . . 2,779,534
Army ................
.. 1,766,672
Judiciary ..........
..... 112^50
Judiciary .............
31,402
Indian affairs .......
..... 482,625
Indian affairs .........
482,625
. 2,716,733
Post office . . .
246,675
Civil, etc .
. . . . . 1,301,101
Land office . . .
226,480
Post office .
, , . . . 1,169,885
Territorial Govt. ......
13,900
Navigation, etc. ....
. .... 162,428
Navigation, etc. .......
15,570
$8,971,917
$2,829,818
Table
V— 1823
Total items
Amount
Western items
Amount
Congress ...........
. . . . . $338,290
Congress .............
$67,658
Army .............
Army ................
.. 1,647,728
Judiciary ..........
..... 154,413
Judiciary . . .
43,236
Indian affairs ......
..... 389,380
Indian affairs . . .
389,380
Navy ..............
Navy . . .
160,000
Civil, etc. . . . .
. . . . . 1,025,207
T.and office . .
318,348
Post office .........
. .... 1,170,144
Territorial Govt. ......
37,735
Navigation, etc. ....
..... 333,361
Navigation, etc. .......
46,920
Post office . . .
245,730
$9,362,791
Florida treaty ..... -
18,000
$2,969,735
Table
VI— 1824
Total items
Amount
Western items
Amount
Congress ..........
..... $791,497
Congress . . . . . .
$206,805
Armv .............
. . . . . 3,039,339
Army .................
.. 1,762,561
Judiciary . .
..... 149,600
Judiciary .............
41,860
Indian affairs ......
Indian affairs .........
562,805
Navy ..............
..... 2,923,663
Post office ,
265,448
Civil, etc .
..... 1,260,994
T,and office . . .
268,801
Post office .
..... 1,206,584
Terri tori a.l Govt . . . .
31,978
Navigation, etc. ....
..... 389,633
Navigation, etc.
197,500
Florida Treaty .....
..... 5,000,000
Florida Treaty
.. 6,000,000
$16,304,115
316,768
36 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Table vh — 1825
■JL ozai, Items Amount
Congress . $402,107
Army . 3,404,867
Judiciary . 290,700
Indian affairs . 777,856
Navy . 3,654,787
Civil, etc . 1,184,822
Post office . 1,309,316
Navigation, etc . 400,814
$11,425,279
Table
Total items Amount
Congress . $749,265
Army . 3,684,385
Judiciary . 240,350
Indian affairs . 1,026,196
Navy . 3,587,880
Civil, etc . 1,120,311
Post office . 1,373,239
Navigation, etc . 727,354
$12,508,980
Table
Total items Amount
Congress . $433,390
Army . 3,481,376
Judiciary . 241,611
Indian affairs . 622,068
Navy . 3,705,746
Civil, etc . 1,126,873
Post office . 1,623,893
Navigation, etc . 526,059
$11,761,016
Western items Amount
Congress . $105,647
Army . 1,789,365
Judiciary . 81,396
Indian affairs . 777,856
Navy . 600,000
Land office . 277,475
Territorial Govt . 34,732
Navigation, etc . 223,460
Post office . 301,142
$4,189,973
VIII— 1826
Western items Amount
Congress . $194,808
Army . 2,117,321
Judiciary . 67,298
Indian affairs . 1,026,196
Navy . 350,000
Land office . 237,026
Territorial Govt . 52,175
Navigation, etc . 307,479
Post office . 329,577
$4,681,880
IX— 1827
Western items Amount
Congress . $112,681
Army . 1,934,593
Judiciary . 67,610
Indian affairs . 622,068
Post office . 422,212
Land office . 193,031
Territorial Govt . 37,846
Navigation, etc . 341,773
$3,731,814
Table X — 1828
Total items Amount
Congress . $678,003
Army . 4,438,017
Judiciary . 241,100
Indian affairs . 822,282
Navy . 4,616,760
Civil, etc . 1,165,748
Post office . 1,782,131
Navigation, etc . 1,196,298
$14,829,329
Western items Amount
Congress . $151,680
Army . 2,275,561
Judiciary . 67,608
Indian affairs . 822,282
Navy . 201,650
Land office . 171,515
Territorial Govt . 56,868
Navigation, etc . 382,230
Ala. customs house . 8,500
Post office . 496,996
$4,634,790
N ettels—N ational Cost of the Inland Frontier, 1820-1830. 37
Table XI— -1829
Total itema Amount
Congress ............... $523 , 748
Army .................. 3,026,905
Judiciary ............... 241,800
Indian aflEairs ........... 727 , S23
Navy ................... 3,091,686
Civil, etc. .............. 1,267,941
Post office .............. 1,932,707
Navigation, etc. ......... 1 , 026 , 860
Census ................. 350,000
$12,188,960
Table
Total itema Amount
Congress ............... $670,050
Army . . 3,924,917
Judiciary ............... 242 , 673
Indian affairs ........... 1 , 072 , 579
Navy ................... 4,287,361
Civil, etc. . . 1,178,411
Post office .............. 1,933.569
Navigation, etc, ......... 779,433
Census ................. 260,000
$14,338,983
Western items Amount
Congress ............... $136,174
Army _ ............... 1,329,680
Judiciary . . 67,704
Indian affairs . . 727,323
Post office .............. 579,812
Land office . . 266,567
Territorial Govt. ........ 65,185
Navigation, etc. ......... 585,363
Census ................. 106 , 000
$3,863,808
XII-—1830
Western items Amount
Congress . . $174,213
Army . . 2,013,275
Judiciary ............... 67 , 948
Indian affairs ........... 1,072,579
Post office . . 580,067
Land office . . 204,622
Territorial Govt . . 63,919
Navigation, etc . 379,805
Census ................. 70,000
$4,556,429
WHAT MADE FRENEAU THE FATHER OF AMERICAN
PROSE?
Harry Hayden Clark
Although Philip Freneau is now generally recognized as the
father of American poetry, his prose has been completely ig¬
nored, principally, no doubt, because it has never been col¬
lected from the original newspapers and the inaccessible first
edition in which it appeared. It is possible, then, that a service
might be rendered American letters by the publication of a
selection of Freneau’s essays^ which would illustrate his neg¬
lected historical significance as (1) the leading journalist in
his day of Jeffersonian and French democracy, as (2) a deistic
naturalist, and as (3) the first American master of belletristic
prose.
I
Whatever the causes for our earlier aesthetic sterility, it is
perhaps more than a coincidence that our first outstanding man
of letters was a native of the cosmopolitan middle states, of
French descent, a man of secular interests, a democrat and a
deist. Poet, navigator, editor, and farmer, Philip Freneau was
bom in New York in 1752 and grew up on his father’s spacious
estate at Mount Pleasant, New Jersey. There by the fireside,
according to his biographer, ‘The dreamy youth read very
widely, especially in the English poets and Latin classics.”
The Rising Glory of America, a poem read at his graduation
from Princeton in 1771, indicates his devotion to poetry and
his ardent Americanism. Along with Madison, Brackenridge
and Aaron Burr, he had attended nightly mass meetings be¬
fore bonfires in the college yard to deride submission to the
British. In such early work as The American Village (1772)
^ I have made such a collection of Freneau's essays, entitled The Philosopher of
the Forest, which will be published shortly. In the present essay I have used,
with the courteous permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, a few sentences
which appear in my introduction to Poems of Freneau (N, Y., 1929) in The Ameri¬
can Authors Series.
40 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
and The Pictures of Columbus (1774) he elaborated his favor¬
ite theme that civilization has corrupted the ''native innocence”
and benevolence of mankind manifest in primitive ages. After
trying teaching and satirizing the British, Freneau retired for
a couple of years to exotic Santa Cruz, bringing home in 1779
poetry which foreshadowed Poe, Coleridge and Keats. The
British Prison Ship illustrates the way in which the physical
horror of bloodshed and imprisonment served to gear his
hitherto rather doctrinaire liberalism to the actual problems at
hand. His work contributed to the Philadelphia Freeman's
Journal from 1781 to 1784 helped to cheer the desponding sol¬
diers from Valley Forge to Yorktown; according to his biog¬
rapher, his writings were "distributed throughout the army, or
posted in some conspicuous place to be memorized.” His rol¬
licking patriotic ballads were sold in broadsides at all our ports
and were sung by sailors on deck. It is indicative, however,
of Freneau’s lifelong ability to produce "applied” literature
and "pure” literature side by side that most of the eleven num¬
bers of The Philosopher of the Forest, were originally contrib¬
uted to the Freeman's Journal during this stormy period.
Attacked for his radicalism, Freneau sought "Neptune’s aid”
"to ease the aching heart”, bringing his service as master of a
coast-line freight vessel to a close in 1790 when he married and
returned to journalism. The democratic Jefferson, just re¬
turned from Revolutionary Paris where the razing of the Bas¬
tille had taught him to respect the power of the masses, had
expressed his "wonder and mortification” at finding at home an
all but unanimous "preference for the kingly over the republi¬
can government.” Sensing the coming conflict with the Fed¬
eralist Hamilton, he offered Freneau the clerkship of foreign
languages in the office of the Secretary of State if he would
establish a "Whig vehicle of intelligence” to combat Fenno’s
Gazette of the United States, subsidized by the Hamiltonians.
Thus Freneau skyrocketed into fame as the editor of the
National Gazette, the "leading paper in America” from 1791
to 1793; he glorified to issues upon which Jeffersonian democ¬
racy was founded, and poured blistering contempt upon such
measures as the Federalist monarchial tendencies, ceremony, the
assumption of the revolutionary debts, the whiskey taxes, the
policy of neutrality toward France in 1793, and the general
trend toward coercion which culminated in the Alien and Sedi-
Clark—What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose ? 41
tion Laws of 1798. Honored as the 'Toet of the Revolution/'
Freneau was now attacked by Hamilton as trying to undermine
the Federal government while in its employ, as being ''hired"
to "bite the hand that puts bread in his mouth,” Federalists
such as Timothy Dwight regarded him as a "mere incendiary,
or rather as a despicable tool of bigger incendiaries.”
However, popular support was withdrawn from the paper
following hostility toward France which developed in 1793, and
when his patron Jefferson resigned, and yellow fever stalked
the streets of Philadelphia, Freneau retired to his beloved
Mount Pleasant to edit his poems and write the Letters on
Various Interesting and Important Subjects under his favorite
locust tree while neglecting his farm. He edited The Jersey
Chronicle from 1795 to 1796, and the New York Time-Piece
from 1797 to 1798. Poverty drove him back to sea until 1807.
Editions of his poems appeared in 1809 and 1815, the latter edi¬
tion containing poems on the War of 1812. His last years
were melancholy. Fire destroyed his ancestral home in 1815,
and, as a result of his improvidence and his weakness for the
tavern, foreclosures of mortgages reduced his once ample estate.
The gray-haired man of eighty lost his way and his life in a
blizzard in 1832, while trying to walk home from Freehold,
some two miles distant. The nature whose benevolence he cele¬
brated betrayed him. The most vivid impression of the man is
that given by his friend, Dr. John W. Francis:
“He was somewhat below the ordinary height; in person thin yet mus¬
cular, with a firm step, though a little inclined to stoop; his countenance
wore traces of care, yet lightened with intelligence as he spoke; he was
mild in enunciation, neither rapid nor slow, but clear, distinct, and em¬
phatic. His forehead was rather beyond the medium elevation, his eyes
grey, occupying a socket deeper than common; his hair must have been
beautiful, it was now thinned and of an iron grey. He was free of all
ambitious displays; his habitual expression was pensive. His dress might
have passed for that of a farmer.” The writer goes on to praise him as a
“true patriot” who “might have enjoyed increased facilities had he not en¬
listed with indiscreet zeal as an advocate of the radical doctrines of the
day.”
11
What were those "radical doctrines?” What factors helped
make Freneau the journalist of Jeffersonian and French democ¬
racy? if Federalist political theory, distrusting human nature
42 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
and advocating a coercive government to safeguard property,
is of Puritan and Whig derivation, democratic political theory
in general may be traced (1) to the liberty and equality of the
agrarian and cosmopolitan frontier and the masses, (2) to the
influence of radical English thinkers such as Locke, Shaftes¬
bury, Priestley, Paine, and Godwin, and (3) to the idealists
who heralded the French Revolution. What was Freneau's re¬
lation to each of these three influences ?
As ‘^the leading editor in America" he became the spokesman
of the self-reliant, dissenting, deistic, agrarian, anti-capitalistic,
anti-British, optimistic frontier, which Professor Turner has
shown to be a primary source of American democracy. He
became the spokesman of Hamilton’s ‘‘people of no particular
importance." He turned disdainfully from feudal Europe to
“the western frontiers" beyond the Alleganies where a “new
and most enchanting region opens, of inexpressible beauty and
fertility," and found it “not easy to conceive what will be the
greatness and importance of North America in a century or
two to come." He ridicules the British attempt “to subjugate
a country to which nature never gave them a shadow of right,
and whose inaccessibility is, of itself, a standing and insur¬
mountable obstacle to their success." Nature has herself pro¬
vided for an American destiny both independent and sublime.
He describes an oppressed European immigrant, who, seeking
“a remote part of the western territory," is disillusioned with
the aristocratic East, but who finds as he approaches the Ohio
that “things alter for the better." He sympathizes with the
resolute farmer who established a home amid “one entire for¬
est," a “wild and savage territory," and whose fashionable
daughter-in-law is now ashamed of his manners and relegates
him in his old age to “a small out-building." He points out
that the “members of the last Congress, who entered the public
service with very slender resources, are now among the richest
citizens of America" as a result of the Federalists’ funding
scheme which encouraged the purchase of the frontier patriots’
Revolutionary bonds before news of their increased value could
reach the back-country. Everywhere he attacks the capital¬
istic program of the Secretary of the Treasury. Signing him¬
self “One of the Swinish Multitude," who suffered by “public
neglect, and the misapplication of the public’s money," he asks
whether “money might with more profit be laid out in repairing
Clark — What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose ? 43
the roads, than in marine establishments, supporting a stand¬
ing army, useless embassies, exorbitant salaries.’' Every¬
where, as in Robert Slender* s IDEA of a VISIT to a MODERN
GREAT MAN, the philosopher of the forest resents ceremony,
formality, pomp, and display. In a day when society aped the
English caste-system, he defended plain living and high think¬
ing, simplicity and equality. He scorns the '‘fopperies and ex¬
travagances” of those who do not live by ''their own proper
care and industry.** He glorifies “men of simple, upright, and
blameless lives, strangers to all fantastical politeness, vain cere¬
mony, and insincerity.” His immediate experience as a poor
farmer in debt, as a proud journalist struggling in vain against
the forces of caste, capitalism, and Calvinistic Federalism,
naturally tended to make him a democrat.
The democracy, however, of Freneau^ — ^and of America — was
determined not only by practice, by the environment, but also
by theory, by European thought, and one must not neglect the
motivating force of the “philosopher’s” increasing acceptance
of English radicalism, of deistic naturalism. Fostered by the
rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza, by science, and by the
habit of dissent engendered by Protestant individualism, deism
had been heralded by such men as Locke, Shaftesbury, Collins,
Wollaston, Tindal, Bolingbroke, Pope and Priestley. Partly a
reaction against the unnatural Puritan reading of life, this
Old World faith found congenial soil on the American frontier
which inspired freedom, self-reliance, and optimism instead of
the Puritan predestination, passivity, and gloom. Freneau’s
deism stands in American thought as a bridge from the super¬
naturalism of Edwards, the dependence upon a “divine and su¬
pernatural light,” to the naturalism of Emerson, the merging
of God and man and nature in that “Unity, that Over-Soul,
within which every man’s particular being is contained and
made one with all other.” Silent regarding supernatural reve¬
lation, Freneau significantly quotes Paine’s faith that the “vast
machine” — ^nature — must have had a “great architect,” and
“divine author,” a creator separate from his creation. Al¬
though, unlike the Puritan deity, “he is benevolence itself,” he
is now powerless to interfere with the natural laws, beneficent
but immutable, which he has ordained. Freneau echoes the
annotated copy of Pope’s Essay on Man, which had been in his
library since he was nine years old, in exclaiming “all, all is
44 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
right,” and in seeing, in Paine^s words, “the Creation” as “the
Bible of the Deist” :
“All that we see, about, abroad.
What is it all, but nature’s God?”
The philosopher of the forest is engaged on a book to be called
De anima mundi which is to prove “the divine and incompre¬
hensible intelligence which pervades and enlivens the immensity
of matter.”
Of more significance, however, as regards democracy is the
fact that Freneau, as well as Jefferson, Franklin and Paine,
belonged to the nascent humanitarian movement which, during
the latter part of the eighteenth century, inspired a new sym¬
pathy for the humble and oppressed, a new faith in reason as
the chief agent in furthering human perfectibility, and a new
sense of social responsibility. He not only sympathizes with
the lot of the farmer and the debtor, but he praises the rural
clergyman who is “an utter enemy to slave-keeping. The un¬
happy African was never beheld in his fields to faint beneath
the lashes of an unfeeling tyrant, or to groan out a life of bond¬
age and misery to support his vanity, his wickedness, or his
imaginary wants.” Thus he finds his religion in his love for
humanity and nature, no less in the lowly than in the mighty.
Especially interesting as regards democracy is the conflict
which went on in the mind of this transitional figure over the
problem of the natural goodness of mankind and the source of
evil. Again and again in his early essays we find him agreeing
with the conservative moralists of the seventeenth and eigh¬
teenth centuries who held with Hobbes that the state of nature
is the “state of war,” that evil is innate, and that man is actu¬
ated by a “perpetual desire of power after power.” He
laments, for example, that “discord and disorder are inter¬
woven with the nature and constitution of the human race.”
There is much evidence, however, although Freneau is at times
inconsistent, that he came increasingly to accept another sort
of philosophy which reached its climax in his day. Locke had
taught his pupil Shaftesbury that man is the product of en¬
vironment and sensation. Shaftesbury had asserted that man
must therefore be innately good. Then the radicals, such as
Priestley and Godwin, had argued that therefore evil should
be charged to the thwarting of naturally good instincts by cor-
Clark — What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose? 45
rupt institutions and environment. If these could be modified,
they asserted, man would be capable of infinite perfection. We
have seen that Freneau dealt with this theme in his early primi¬
tivistic poems on The American Village and The Pictures of
Columbus, In the tenth number of The Philosopher of the
Forest he deals with the idyllic paradise of primitive America,
peopled by ^^children of nature”; evil entered with the advent
of European civilization. Most interesting, however, is the
essay of 1798 which appeared in The Time-Piece:
“Man, in a state of simplicity, uncorrupted by the influence of bad
education, bad examples, and bad government, possesses a taste for all
that is good and beautiful. He is capable of a degree of moral and in¬
tellectual improvement, which advances his nature to a participation with
the divine. . . . Pleased with himself and all around him, his heart
dilates with benevolence and piety. . . . But where is man to be
found thus noble, thus innocent, thus happy? Not in so many parts of
the terraqueous globe as he ought to be; but still he is to be found wher¬
ever the rights of nature and the virtues of simplicity are not violated or
banished by the false refinements, the base artifices of corrupt-govern¬
ments. Unhappily for man, society has been almost universally cor¬
rupted, even by the arts intended for its very improvement, and human
nature is gradually depraved in its very progress to civilization.”
Thus, while Federalists such as Hamilton said that ^'every man
ought to be supposed a knavef' actuated by ''private interest/'
who ^Vill not conform to the dictates of reason and justice
without restraint,” Freneau, like Rousseau and Shelley, held
that evil was the result of a government restraining natural
benevolence, and he therefore opposed the Federalist doctrine
that ^There ought to be a principle in government capable of
resisting the popular current.”
Finally, in addition to crystallizing, by means of journalism,
the democracy of the frontier and the dissatisfied masses, in
addition to disseminating English deistic naturalism, Freneau
did much to popularize French radicalism, which later united
with Jeffersonian and frontier equalitarianism to produce Jack¬
sonian democracy. If radical French influence upon our Revo¬
lution was relatively slight, America was now getting her own
revolutionary doctrines— those of English Whigs such as
Locke— on the rebound from France, stripped, significantly, of
moral and religious restraint. Mr. S. E. Forman says Freneau
was ^^steeped in the philosophy of Rousseau and Condorcet”;
46 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
his work abounds in translations and praise of what he calls
the ‘'judicious sentiments’" of the former. Gratitude for Revo¬
lutionary aid from France fostered a receptivity to things
French which was most marked from 1791 to 1793 in Phila¬
delphia, where Freneau’s office on High Street became a meet¬
ing place for French sympathizers. Of French descent,
trained in French at Princeton, a broadcaster of Rousseau as
clerk of foreign languages for Jefferson, agent for the “French
Society of the Patriots of America,” the editor of the National
Gazette and The Time-Piece did much to identify the ideals of
native democrats with those of the French Revolutionists.
When Burke, the “drudge of Britain’s dirty work,” attacked
the French Revolution, Freneau championed Paine’s radical re¬
ply, The Rights of Man, which also served to counteract John
Adams’ Davilla. Mackintosh, Godwin, and Barlow joined the
international controversy. In January, 1793, Louis Capet
“lost his caput,” and England declared war on France, who
called for the American aid promised under the treaty of 1778.
Citizen Genet, diplomatic representative of republican France,
arrived in Charleston, and began, amid tumultuous acclaim
by the democrats, a triumphal progress to Philadelphia.
Everywhere Jacobin clubs were organized. Sedate men of af¬
fairs donned the bonnet rouge. Manners, customs, dress,
jewelry, ornaments, perfume — all were a la frangaise. Lib¬
erty poles were raised in public places. Restaurants intro¬
duced French soups, salads, ragouts, fricassees, and olive oil.
Only French bread was edible. The stately English minuet
gave way to the lively cotillon. The streets of Philadelphia,
New York, and even Boston were musical at night with La
Marseillaise and the carmagnole. And in the midst of it all
was Citizen Freneau urging his countrymen to help France
overthrow “Kings, priests and nobles,” to “speed that golden
time when Freedom rules.” Who but Freneau could be trusted
to prepare the stirring odes for the banquets tendered that cor¬
respondent of Rousseau, Citizen Genet?
But Washington, backed by the Federalists, had issued a
Proclamation of Neutrality. The democrats raged. “The pub¬
lications in Freneau’s and Bache’s papers,” wrote Washington,
“are outrages to common decency.” Genet, trusting the
masses, appealed to the people over Washington’s head. The
mass of the people hesitated, and then turned against Genet.
Clark — What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose ? 47
But the rash Freneau openly addressed The Father of His
Country :
“Sir, let not, I beseech you, the opiate of sycophancy, administered by
interested and designing men, lull you into fatal lethargy, at this awful
moment. Consider that a first magistrate in every country is no other
than a public servant whose conduct is to be governed by the will of the
people. . . . Why all this outcry against Mr. Genet, for saying he
would appeal to the people? Is the President a consecrated character
that an appeal from him must be considered criminal? The minister of
France, I hope, will act with firmness and with spirit. The people are
his friends, or rather the friends of France, and he will have nothing to
apprehend, for as yet the people are sovereign in the United States.”
Washington complained to Jefferson of his employee, “that ras¬
cal Freneau,” but the Secretary of State refused to remove him
on the ground that “his paper has saved our constitution,
which was galloping fast into monarchy.” We have already
seen that Freneau was forced to discontinue the paper in the
fall of 1793. With the death of Louis XVI, the Reign of Ter¬
ror, the tyranny of Napoleon, the distrust of French morality,
and the friction arising from the X, Y. Z. papers, there came
a strong conservative reaction against things French. Freneau
omitted most of his poems on the French Revolution from
the edition of 1809, after Wordsworth and Coleridge had re¬
canted their similar enthusiasm. Nevertheless, Jefferson, the
friend of France, was raised to the presidency in 1801.
“Freneau’s paper did much to give a French coloring to our
political philosophy,” says Mr. S. E. Forman, summarizing his
careful study. “The editor of the National Gazette was the
schoolmaster who drilled Jeffersonian or French democracy into
the minds— willing or unwilling— of the American people.”
Thus Freneau vigorously allied himself with all three of the
democratic influences in America— the frontier and the masses ;
English deistic naturalism; and French radicalism.
Ill
The background of Freneau’s age not only helps to explain
his democracy; it also helps to explain why he was our first
master of belletristic prose and why native “pure” prose was so
late a development. A frontier society, hewing homes out of a
wilderness, is necessarily practical, motor-minded, and without
leisure either for reading or writing “mere literature.” New
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England Puritanism, with its other-worldly indifference toward
physical beauty and its militant zeal to refute and to teach, did
not tend to foster a literature of pure beauty. Something may
perhaps be charged to a relatively plebian population, with¬
drawn from world-culture and from the possibilities of leisurely
discussion and mutual inspiration such as existed at the Eliza¬
bethan Mermaid or the Queen Anne coffee-houses. Of course
the eighteenth century in general, even in England, was an
age of “applied'' prose, primarily utilitarian, rational, and hos¬
tile toward the emotional release which underlies artistic crea¬
tion. Even when urban life dispelled the isolation and exigen¬
cies of the frontier, and even when sunny and tolerant deism
had undermined Puritanism, political controversy, culminating
in the Revolution, encouraged the literature of debate rather
than “literature as an expression of the aesthetic mood, litera¬
ture apart from mere instruction." “The foremost representa¬
tive of this new literary tendency," Professor Tyler concludes,
“was Philip Freneau, a true man of genius." He characterizes
his prose style as “delightful, easy, sinewy, touched with a
delicate humor, crisp and keen edged." Notwithstanding
Freneau's political interests, there is much evidence that at
heart he was primarily an artist.
What forces helped mould this prose? A detailed search for
Freneau's sources might yield some interesting results. For
the present one may observe that the influence of “godlike Addi¬
son," and Steele, whose Spectator was among Freneau's few
annotated books, is suggested by the biographical introduction
and conclusion to the first number of The Philosopher, by the
device of having the essays anonymously printed by one in
rural retirement, by the vein of sentiment and satire, and by
the fact that the device in The Journal of Timheroo Tabo-eede
of reproducing the naive comments of a savage upon the man¬
ners and customs of a civilized community appears in numbers
50 and 171 of the Spectator, This latter device appears also,
of course, in Goldsmith's The Citizen of the World, which of¬
fers many suggestive parallels. The satirical and symbolical
description of the Island of Snatchaway (England) as well as
the frequent tendency toward fantastic and strange experi¬
ences reminds one of Swift's Gulliver's Travels, The author of
Rasselas, whom Freneau read, may have suggested the idea of
having the philosopher of the forest discuss such themes as
Clark— What Made Freneau the Father of American Prose? 49
natural goodness, primitivism, and happiness as the reward for
virtue. Freneau's study of Gray, Goldsmith, and Burns must
have acquainted him with the themes of rustic simplicity, pen¬
sive retrospect, the evils of luxury, and gentle melancholy, all
of which were congenial to the lettered farmer who retired to
Mount Pleasant. The ‘'savage notions of valour and romantic
heroism" of Valhalla and the Scandinavian War Song in the
last number of The Philosopher he may have found in Hugh
Blair's Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian (1763) or
in W. B. Stevens' Poems Consisting of Indian Odes (1775).
The Inexorable Captain, A Short Story, heralds this important
genre in our native letters and stands as a bridge between Irv¬
ing and the “moral tale” dear to Hannah More.
Freneau's main trend, however, was by no means either imi¬
tative or reactionary. His deistic naturalism had fruitful
aesthetic results which have been generally ignored. For nat¬
uralism, the faith that “all that we see” is but “nature's God,”
inspired him to find, like Emerson, the miraculous in the com¬
mon, and furnished philosophic sanction for treating the actual
life of the American field and forest. The setting of The
Philosopher is “a forest of considerable extent on the western
side of the Delaware, not many miles from the beautiful and
populous city of Philadelphia.” In an age of generality and
abstraction he had the artist's instinct for the concrete and the
particular. This fresh attention to “the mighty world of ear
and eye” enabled him to transmute his ideas into images, to
clothe his thought with beauty. Few readers know that Whit¬
man's plea for a distinctively American literature as the prod¬
uct of democracy was first voiced by Freneau :
“Real poetry, however, will one day have its resurrection; but its pro¬
fessors will no longer be court sycophants, or miserable dependents upon
what are called the great. The republican virtues will be their greatest
theme, and the promotion of good will, peace, and friendship among men
their main object, instead of singing the bloody battles, and rehearsing
the military praises of crowned murderers.’’
Freneau's deistic naturalism has still another result; it causes
him to be haunted with the dread of transience, mutability and
oblivion, and so raises his best work above ephemeral contem¬
porary affairs to the plane of universality, touching it with a
gentle wistfulness and beauty. Naturalism masquerading as a
religion lured him to focus his interests upon nature, upon sen-
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suous life, and he discovered — as all discover — ^that sensuous
life is forever changing, forever fleeting :
“The mountains waste, the shores decay,
Once purling streams are dead and dry —
’Twas Nature’s work — ’tis Nature’s play.
And Nature says that all must die.”
Mankind's ‘‘doom is to be once more resolved into their original,
distinct composing elements, and when that is effected, it is of
small importance in what manner it may have been brought
about." He amuses himself
“with reading the various inscriptions on the tombstones; in reflecting
upon the momentary continuance of the race of man in the present state
of being; and in considering the mortifying change that is here effected
from what was once estimated vigorous, brave, gay, sensible, or beautiful.”
Elsewhere he represents life as a plain which is “the passage of
all mankind into the ocean of forgetfulness, and through this
temple, which is dedicated to oblivion, every individual without
exception is once doomed to pass."
Thus, in general terms. The Philosopher of the Forest may
be seen as a result of the interplay of the American environ¬
ment and liberal European thought as they met in that ardent,
inexplicable personality which was Freneau. We have seen
how the natural goodness doctrine of English deistic naturalism
and French radicalism, in connection with the American fron¬
tier spirit, helped to motivate his democracy. And we have
seen how Old World deism helped to make the philosopher of
the forest our first man of letters: for the deistic faith that
nature is a divine revelation, accepted by a man surrounded by
the natural beauty of the New World, tended to sanctify the
American scene to the uses of literature; it gave him means
wherewith to wrap his thought with natural beauty; and it
tended to impress him with his master-theme— the transient
loveliness of a sensuous world and the haunting certainty of
inexorable oblivion.
KARNOEFFELSPIEL, A GERMAN CARD GAME OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
Ernst Voss
If I were writing this in German I would say that the mean¬
ing and origin of the word karndffel and its variations karniffel,
karnilffel, karnuffel and the card game, called karndffelspiel, is
indeed eine ''knilfelige Geschichte,'’ a knotty, a hard proposition.
The word karndffel occurs as far back as the fifteenth cen¬
tury. The lexicographers of that time do not mention it, but
it has been handed down to us in a poem that J. C. von Fichard
republished in the Frankfurtisches Archiv fur dltere deutsche
Litteratur und Geschichte, dritter Theil, on pages 293-297, en¬
titled: ‘‘Eyn suberlich hofflich spruch von dem spiel karnof-
felin.” In this ''spruch'' karndffel refers to the card, called the
evil one. This "spruch" on the karndffelin antedates the
satire : Ein frage des gantzen heiligen Ordens der Kartenspieler
vom Karndffel an das Concilium zu Mantua, 1537, which is re¬
printed from the copy in the Ducal library at Wolfenbuttel in
the Wood Number of Modern Philology, 1929. This is a very
clever satire of the first half of the sixteenth century on the
existing conditions of the church of those days. The next piece
of literature dealing with the Karndffelspiel is a Pasquillus of
the year 1546, bearing the title : Newe Zeytung vom Teuffel.
In this pasquil an exact account is given of the chief cards and
their value in the Karndffelspiel and karndffel is explained as
referring to the cardinals of the church. The last literary
document that deals with the Karndffelspiel is Cyriacus Spang-
enberg's "Wider die bose Sieben ins Teuffels Karnoffelspiel,"
published in 1562, in which Spangenberg also reprints the be¬
fore mentioned "Question addressed by the members of the
holy Order of the Karnoffelplayers to the Church Council of
Mantua", printed in 1537, for he is afraid that in the rush of
other unimportant business it might have been overlooked by
the authorities of the Church. I intend to have all these docu¬
mentary evidences reprinted in the near future in order to put
together all the material on this subject that might throw light
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on this strange game of cards with which every one must have
been familiar in the sixteenth century when the great struggle
was going on within the Church.
As far as I have been able to ascertain the Kamdffelspiel
was discussed at length in an article that appeared in the
Teutscher Merkur, Jahrgang 1777, pages 32ff : “Zur Geschichte
des Karnoffelspiels’" and again, Teutscher Merkur, year 1783,
pages 62ff in a ‘‘Beytrag zur Geschichte der Kartenspiele.’’ In
the Historisches Jahrbuch, edited by Friedrich von Raumer,
Neunter Jahrgang, pages 321-524, we have finally a long article
by Johannes Voigt: ‘‘Uber Pasquille, Spottlieder und Schmah-
schriften aus der ersten Halfte des XVI Jahrhunderts,’’ in
which the Kamdffelspiel is fully discussed. C. F. Flogel,
Geschichte der komischen Literatur, Bd. Ill, pages 320-324
also speaks of the Kamdffelspiel referred to by Cyriacus
Spangenberg in his satire. Against the Evil Seven,
In Teutscher Merkur of the year 1783, the author of the arti¬
cle, "‘Contribution to the History of Cardgames,’' calls attention
to the fact that the Kamdffelspiel must have been known before
the Reformation of the Church set in, since Geiler von Kaysers-
berg, the famous Strassburg priest, mentions it in a sermon
that he delivered on Thursday after Judica in the year 1496.
This sermon is to be found in the Book about the Human Tree,
A sermon preached by the very learned Doctor Johannes Keys-
ersberg., from which one may learn how to be ready with a
cheerful heart and praise of God to receive Death, the All-De¬
stroyer, in all serenity. Good and useful for everybody.
Strassburg 1521.
In this sermon is the following paragraph : In former times
it was a simple thing to play at cards. The King trumped the
Jack and always the higher card trumped the lower one, but
nowadays they play a card game, they call it Karnoffelgame
(Karniffelius), in which everything is topsy-turvy, the Threes
trump a King, the Fours trump a Jack, the Two and the Six
trump a King and when after a new deal they turn up a card
for trump, it may come about that in one deal one card is Em¬
peror, in another deal another card, just as luck will have it.
In the Latin original the main part reads as follows: But
now they have invented a game, which they call the Kaiser
game or Karniffelius, in which all this has been perverted
(turned around) in such a way that a Three can trump a Jack,
Voss — Karnoeffelspiel, Card Game of the Sixteenth Century, 58
a Two a King and the vicissitudes of the Emperors are still
worse, for it depends entirely upon the drawing of the trump
card, whether they shall be emperors or not.
This sermon is contained in Das Buch de Arbore Humana,
Von dem menschlichen Baum. Gepredigt von dem hochgelehr-
ten D, Johannes Keysersherg, darinn geschicklich und in Gottes
Lob zu lernen ist, des Holzmeiers, des Todes, frbhlich zu warten.
Einem jeden Menschen nutz und gut. Strassburg 1521, fol.
In this sermon we find the following paragraph: Vor Zeiten
war es gar ein schlechtes Ding zu spielen auf der Karten;
der Konig stach den Obern, und ie das mehrere das Untere,
zwei stachen nie einen Konig. Aber itzt hat man ein Spiel,
heisset der Karnoffelspiel (Karniffelius) , da seyn alle Dinge
verkehrt, die drey stechen ein Ober, die Vier den Untern, zwey
und sechs stechen einen Konig, und so schlagt man um, itzt so
ist einerley Kaiser, darnach so wird ein anderley Kaiser, wie
das Gluck gibt.
In the Latin original the main part of this paragraph reads
as follows: Sed nunc ludus inventus qui appellatur (Keiser-
spil) ludus Caesaris, vel (Karniffelius), in quo haec omnia per-
vertuntur; ita ut tria vincant superiorem, duo regem, fitque
mira vicissitude Caesarum, ut in hoc ludo iam de hoc coetu,
iam de alio fiat Caesar ad fortunam. From this it is clear,
says the author of this article, that the Karnoffelspiel and the
Kaiserspiel must have been one and the same and that, although
we do no longer know the exact rules of the game, the Emperor
(Caesar) played no doubt a very prominent part in it. In any
case it was already a current game and not an entirely new one,
because otherwise the preacher could not have made himself
clear to his large Strassburg congregation. That he does not
mention the other cards, as the Pope, the Banner, the Devil,
the Seven, from that we have no right to draw the conclusion
that these cards were missing in the game in 1496. For what
was uppermost in Geiler’s mind when he referred to this game
was the idea that everything had been turned upside down in
this game of cards, for he wanted to use it as an illustration
of the tremendous upheavals going on in Church and State in
his times, the Reformation of the Church, the Peasant War, etc.
‘^Hieraus erhellt,” says the author of this article, ‘‘dass
Karnoffeln und Kaiserspiel Eins war, und dasz, ob man wohl
die Regeln des Spiels nicht mehr weisz, doch wohl der Kaiser
54 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
eine Hauptrolle darinne haben mochte. In alien Fallen war es
doch schon ein currentes, und daher nicht ganz neues Spiel;
weil ausserdem der Prediger seiner zahlreichen Strassburger
Gemeinde nicht verstandlich gewesen sein wiirde. Dass er des
Pabsts, Panniers, Teufels, der Sieben nicht gedenkt, daraus
folgte zwar eben nicht, dass 1496 diese Blatter im Spiel fehlten.
Denn Geiler hatte die Hauptidee des Verkehrten bei dem Spiele
vor Augen, um es mit dem Verkehrten seiner damaligen Zeit
zu vergleichen.’’
Hans Sachs also was familiar with this game ; he mentions it
in one of his plays, where he makes one of the troopers recite a
number of German card games. He says :
Kann auch ein Spiel, heisst ein und dreissig.
Das hab ich oft getrieben fleissig,
Dergleichen ein Spiel heisst das Karnoffeln,
That mich auch oft affen und loffeln.
From the author of the article in Teutscher Merkur, 1783, we
learn further that even in his days, at the end of the eigh¬
teenth century, the farmers of Thuringia were still playing
this game of cards, the Karnoffelspiel, in a modified form.
He describes the play as he saw it played by the peasants as
follows :
This game is played with ordinary German cards and not,
as Adelung, the author of the famous German Dictionary, the
forerunner of Grimms Deutsches Worterbuch, will have it with
cards especially designed for this game. The four suits in a
deck of German cards are called: Eichel (acorn), Griin (clover,
green). Rot (hearts), Schellen (bells), corresponding to our
Clubs, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds. The green Eight (eight of
spades) which is called the Dare Devil, der Tolle or the Old
Beast (das alte Thier) is the highest card in the deck. The
Nine of Hearts (die rote Neun) is called the Red Beast (das
rote Thier) and ranks next. Then comes the Nine of Diamonds
(the Schellen Neun) or the Yellow Beast. Whatever suit may
be trumps these three cards come first. If their own suit
should be trumps, the other cards in the trump suit rank as
follows: First the Obermann (our queen) and he is called the
Oberkarniffel or Landsknecht, i. e., the trooper, next the Unter-
mann, subnamed the Unterkarniffel or also Biittel, the beadle
(in our card games the Jack). Then comes the Six, subnamed
Foss — Karnoeffelspiel, Card Game of the Sixteenth Century. 55
the Papst (the Pope) and after that the cards rank as follows,
the Eight (except of course the Eight of Spades) and the Nine
(with the exception of the Nine of Hearts and the Nine of
Diamonds) . These last two cards are called Freykarten (free
cards), probably because they cannot be trumped, unless their
suit should be trumps.
The Dauss (our Ace) according to old style the Kaiser, the
King, the Ten (also called the Pannier, the banner) are the
lowest cards in the deck and worthless.
With regard to the Seven it must be noticed that it cannot be
trumped at all and that it can only be played after the player
who leads has made at least one trick. On that account it is
named the Bose Sieben, or according to the older phraseology,
Der Teufel. In the other suits that are not trumps (always
two suits are trumps in this strange game) the rank of the
cards is the following: Obermann, Untermann, Sechs, Acht,
Neun, Dauss, Konig, Zehen. The Ober- and Untermann are
nicknamed the Fauler Schlingel (lazy rascal), formerly Fauler
Fritz (lazy Freddy), because they cannot trump and are in¬
active until all the other trumps have been used up.
Four or six persons play this game in two parties. Each
player gets five cards. The dealer, when through dealing, puts
the next two cards face up on the table and these indicate the
two trump suits. He who holds trump Ten in his hand may
exchange it for one of the two trump cards put on the table if
they are of higher value. If both of the cards drawn for trumps
are of the same color, another card must be drawn from the
deck on the table until two different suits are revealed. Both
trump suits thus established have the same value. While the
game is on, in following suit, the higher card must always be
played, the cards that are lower than the one played out are
kept back. Each side of the players chooses a director who
may look into the hands of those that play with him on his
side, and if he sees fit, he may give up the game if nothing can
be gained by the cards that his party holds. The number of
tricks made decides the game and the stake goes to the winner.
Nowadays the Karnoffelspiel seems to be unknown in Germany.
Other games, like Sixty-Six, Schafskopf, Skat and others have
taken its place, but anyone familiar with German card games
will recognize traces of the Karnoffelspiel in most of the mod¬
ern card games. In the German game, called Skat (from
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Italian, scarto) the Jacks are always the highest cards; they
have taken the place of the Unterkarnoffel.
So much about the history of the Karnoffelspiel. In another
paper I shall take up the etymology of Karnoffel and review the
attempts that have been made to explain the origin and mean¬
ing of this puzzling word.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF FRANKFORT OF THE
YEAR 1597 REGULATING DRESSES, MARRIAGES,
BAPTISMS, ETC.
Ernst Voss
The student of history must see a striking resemblance be¬
tween the Sixteenth Century and our own times.
We are accustomed to refer to the former period as the time
of the Reformation, usually meaning the reformation of reli¬
gious thought. It was however a period of general movement
for reform, a time of restlessness expressing itself in various
attempts towards change in laws, customs and government.
It was during this time that the unparalleled uprising known
as the Peasants^ War occurred ; and the records of the day are
full of the demands made by the less favored for recognition
both in heaven and on earth.
Luxury and extravagance were cried out against strongly
enough to create and enforce stringent laws for the regulation
of expense in those great ceremonials of a man's life, birth,
marriage and death.
In these days when the high cost of living and the expense of
a respectable burial make it equally hard to live or to die and
forces man anew between the fateful rocks of Scylla and
Charybdis, it may be interesting to learn that men of other ages
have struggled with our own problems in much the same way.
The ordinance of the City Council of Frankfort reprinted
here was issued in 1598 and speaks for itself of the abuses
which had grown intolerable enough to demand such an
ordinance. . • i ! ;
The title reads as follows :
Erneuerte Policey Ordnung, vnnd Satzung eines Erbarn
Raths dieser Statt Franckfort, wie es hinfiihro mit Kleydungen,
Hochzeiten, Kind Tauffen, Kindbetthaltung und dergleichen ge-
halten werden soil.
You see that it does not only refer to baptismals and mar¬
riage festivals but also to dress, certainly a most important
point as every married man can easily understand. The word
“erneuert” means that this is not a new ordinance but that
something similar had been passed and published before by the
58 WiscoTisin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
City Council, as far back as 1576. From the introduction to
this ordinance we learn that laws against overdressing as well
as overeating and overdrinking had been enacted by several
German Diets and published in the so-called Reichsahschiede,
for in those days the people were informed, contrary to our
custom, about what the diet had accomplished and not what it
merely intended or promised to do while in session. I give a
few excerpts only in English to indicate the spirit of this
Frankfort ordinance.
Men's Dress
With reference to dress no man of the citizen class. Burger,
is permitted to wear a coat or a mantilla made of Sammet
(velvet). Damask, Ormasin, Atlasz (satin), or any other kind
of silk, except those who are freed from this restriction through
their position in life, i. e., men of nobility, free knights and
doctors, which means of course not only doctors of medicine,
but doctors of law, philosophy and theology as well. The pun¬
ishment for disobeying this law is 4 Gulden.
Other distinguished citizens, wealthy merchants and trades¬
men, also members of the common council, will be allowed to
use two yards of Sammet (velvet) to border their coats and
mantillas. No man shall be allowed to wear knitted stockings
that cost more than 4 or 5 Gulden (2 marks). It is also for¬
bidden to embroider silk garments with golden or silver bor¬
ders, nothing but silk borders to be used. The tailors and
workers in silk are also warned to look out for whom they are
working, as they are liable to punishment as well. Silk (sam¬
met or velvet) caps or hats can only be worn by men of the
nobility, those citizens of the first rank. To wear golden chains
around the neck is permitted only to those who have enjoyed
this privilege for ages. In no case however, shall the golden
chains represent more than 150 crowns. The collars worn by
the noblemen must not cost more than 6 Gulden. Common
citizens are not allowed to spend more than 4 Gulden for their
collars and these must not be higher than Vs of a yard.
Women's Dress
No woman is allowed to wear a Rock (skirt) or cloak of
golden or silver cloth, nor entirely of velvet (sammet). No
pearls, golden or silver embroidery are allowed on the garments.
Voss — An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 59
Silk garments are allowed to the women of rank only. These
may also wear golden headgear and chains, but they must not
cost more than 100 crowns, those of an unmarried woman not
more than 40 crowns. Golden rings are allowed, but not more
than six at a time. Also jewelry around the neck and a pearl
chain, and a couple of golden arm bracelets, representing how¬
ever not more than 30 or at the highest 40 crowns.
Women of the second and third class are forbidden to wear
garments made of silk or velvet. Their belts (giirtel) must
not cost more than 40 Gulden. They are allowed only four
golden rings, and necklaces costing not more than 10 Gulden.
Belts made entirely of silver, golden chains, necklaces and hair
ornaments they are forbidden to wear.
Women of the artisan class, the fourth class
Special restriction with reference to dress.
Also special restrictions with reference to servants’ dress.
Servants belong to the fifth class. Special regulations for the
collars worn by women of this class, the size is prescribed as
well as material and price.
Women of the first class must not spend more than 6 Gulden
for a collar, women of the second class and third class not more
than 4 Gulden, of the fourth and fifth class not more than two
Gulden.
Aufschlage, cuffs on coats and mantillas, width and material
prescribed.
Veils, size and material regulated.
Headgear made of fur is also regulated.
Zabel and martin only for women of the first rank.
Fur linings only for ladies of the nobility, doctors’ wives, and
those of the patricians.
Marriage Festivals
1576 already regulated.
Same ordinance regulating weddings, geschenkte und unge-
schenkte Hochzeiten, festivities without and with presents.
Ungeschenkte oder freie Hochzeiten in vogue with the nobility
and citizens of the first class, patricians.
Not more than ten tables to be invited. Penalty: 3 Gulden
for each extra table.
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Geschenkte Hochzeiten.
Invite only nearest relatives of bride and bridegroom, for
every other person penalty 3 Gulden.
Brides. There may be invited eight couples, sixteen persons,
not more. The invited guests must be at least 18 years old.
Meals — Wedding Feasts
Two the first day.
One the following, an evening meal. Strangers may be en¬
tertained the evening before the wedding and also at dinner the
day after the wedding. All extras are abolished, like drives
into neighboring villages ; procession in the streets headed by a
band and drinking bouts after the marriage. Not more than
three musicians allowed except to citizens of the first class.
Sending meals (Brautsuppen) to persons outside also pro¬
hibited, except to near relatives who are unable to be present
at the festivities. The cook in charge of the meals to be paid
not more than 5 Gulden, the woman cook the same, the cham¬
bermaid two Gulden.
At a common wedding only half this price.
Waiters and doorkeepers' wages are also regulated.
At the Schenkhochzeiten relatives may give as much as they
please to the bride and bridegroom. Guests invited, not rela¬
tives, shall give no more than a Gold Gulden, bachelors give
half a crown, or twelve shillings, unmarried ladies 8 shillings.
Dinner shall begin at eleven. Supper begins at seven, and
must not last more than 3 hours. Invited guests found after
11 :15 in the evening at the inn or the dancing hall, where the
marriage festivals were celebrated, will be fined half a Gulden.
Festive Meals Regulated
Not more than 3 chief courses, including the cheese course,
and two side courses of meat or fish. With the cheese, fruit
or pastry may be served.
Noblemen and patricians are allowed for every chief course
three or four side courses.
Nightcaps (Schlaff trunk) after the meals are no longer al¬
lowed except when strangers of rank are invited to festivities.
Bridal shoes heretofore made at great cost of velvet, plush,
embroidered with gold, silver, silk and pearls must from now
Toss — An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort,
61
on cost no more than one Gulden. The man that makes them
at a higher price is punished as well as the one that buys them.
Baptismals
Invitations limited and strictly regulated. Not more than 12
ladies, except in the case of noblemen and patricians. They
are however asked to be moderate and give a good example.
People invited to a baptismal as god fathers or mothers may
give presents at their discretion, if they are relatives. Out¬
siders must not spend more than two Gulden on the child.
Cakes for the young mother are abolished. Elaborate meals
after the ceremony are forbidden. A man may invite his
friends before the baptismal to a good time at the guild hall,
but the festivity must stop there and not be continued at the
home of the father of the child newly born. Godfathers are
forbidden also to give to the child at the age of five, as has been
customary so far, elaborate and costly suits of clothing. How¬
ever, it is permissible to present to the newly born four weeks
after the baptismal a shirt or nightgown that must cost no
more than two or at the highest three Gulden.
The buyer as well as the maker is fined.
ERNEWERTE POLICEY ORDNUNG, VNND SATZUNG
EINES ERBARN RATES DIESER STATT FRANCK-
FORT, WIE ES HINFUEHRO MIT KLEYDUNGEN,
HOCHZEITEN, KIND TAUFFEN, KINDBETTHAL-
TUNG VND DERGLEICHEN, GEHALTEN WERDEN
SOLE
Stadtwappen
Getruckt zu Franckfort am Mayn, durch Nicolaum Basscum
M. D. XCVIII
Kleyder Ordnung
Obwol an sich selbsten Ehrlich, zimlich, vnd billich, dasz
ein jeder, was Wuerden, Standts, oder Herkommens der seye,
nach seinem Standt, Ehren, vnd Vermoegen sich trage, vnnd
also bekleyden lasse, damit ein jeder in seinem Standt vnter-
schiedlich erkannt werden moege: So vernimbt man jedoch,
62 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
vnd bezeuget es die taegliche Erfahrung, dasz der vbermaessige
Pracht, Stoltz, vnd Hoffarth in der Kleydung, so wol auch der
Vberflusz in Essen und Trincken, vnnd andern Sachen mehr,
dermassen vberhand genommen, vnd so hoch gestiegen, dasz
dardurch nicht allein Priuat Personen, sondern auch gantze
Land tschaff ten in Abgang jhrer zeitlichen Nahrung vnnd der-
selben Ringerung gerahten, Zu geschweigen, wie gar kein
vnterscheid der Personen, eines oder desz andern Standts,
solcher Vbermasz wegen erkannt vnnd abgenommen werden
moege. Dannenhero ein jede Christliche Oberkeit so wol ausz
den Reichs Abschieden, als auch fuernemblich ausz Gottes
Wort erinnerlichen angemahnet wirdt, solchem einreissendem
Vbel, der Gebuer, abzuwehren vnd zusteuwren. (Aij)
Ob auch wol ein Erbarer Raht dieser desz H. Reichs Statt
Franckfort disz fals, so viel an jhme, als einer Christlichen
Oberkeit, nichts erwinden, sondern in Anno 1576. derwegen,
vnd wie es bey seinen Vnterthanen vnd Buergern, in Gast-
mahlen, vnnd Hochzeiten, deszgleichen bey Kind Tauffen, vnd
mit der Kleydung allerseits gehalten werden solle, eine ziem-
liche vnd leidenliche Policey Ordnung verfasset, vnd dieselbe,
zu maennigliches nachrichtung, publidrn, auch mit angehenck-
ten Straffen versehen lassen, Auch anders nicht, sondern gentz-
lichen darfuer geachtet, dann es wuerde derselben Ordnung
von jederman gelebt, vnd der Gebuer schueldige Volge be-
schehen seyn. So hat sich doch, leyder, in Gegenfall der Wider-
sinn erwiesen, vnd dasz nicht allein vorgedachtes eines Erbarn
Rahts vaetterliche vnd wolmeinende Vorsorg vnd auffgerichte
Ordnung veraechtlichen in Wind geschlagen, sondern auch der¬
selben zuentgegen, der hochschaedliche Miszbrauch der Kley-
der, so wol auch der verdambliche Vberflusz in Essen vnd
Trincken, je mehr vnd mehr gestiegen seye, augenscheinlich
befunden. Derohalben dann mehr wolgedachter ein Erbarer
Raht Oberkeitlichen Ampts halben nicht vnterlassen koennen,
desz wegen gebuerliches Einsehen zu haben, vnd die hiebevor
auffgerichte Ordnung etlicher massen zuschaerpffen, vnd zu-
erneuwern. Wil demnach vnd ordnet, dasz alle vnnd jede,
jhre, so wol Teutscher als Welscher oder anderer Nation, zu:
vnd angehoerige Buerger vnd Vnterthanen, Manns vnd Weibs
Personen, sich nachvolgender Ordnung, in alien jhren Puncten
vnnd Articuln gehorsamb vnd gemesz verhalten, vnd, bey
denen darinn bestimpten Straffen, derselben nicht zu wider
Voss— An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 63
handlen. Dasz auch, ingleichem, die jederzeit zum Send* ver-
ordnete, vermoeg hiemit jhnen ernstlich aufferlegten Befelchs,
steiff vnnd fest darueber halten, vnnd gute Achtung darauff
geben sollen, damit gemelter Ordnung, obbegriffener massen,
wuercklichen gelebt, vnd, in verbrechung deren, niemand nach-
gesehen werde: Wie dann gemelte jederzeit zum Send ver-
ordnete, die Vberfahrer derselben, wo ferrn sie sich der
gesetzen Straffen nicht vnterwerffen woelten, obernanntem
einem Erbarn Raht anbringen, vnd dessen fernern Bescheidts
darueber gewertig seyn sollen.
Vnd erstlich, so viel die Manns Personen belanget, ist eins
Erbarn Raths Will vnd Meynung, dasz hinfuero kein Buerger,
Vnterthan, oder Beysesz, einigen Rock oder Mantel von Sam-
mat, Damast, Ormasin, Atlasz, oder anderm Seydengewandt
nicht tragen soil. (Auszgenommen die jenigen, so jres stands
halben dessen gefreyet seynd, Als die vom Adel, Ritter vnd
Doctores.) Doch moegen die Erbarn von den Geschlechten,
sammete, dammaste, ormasin, atlasz, vnnd dergleichen Wam-
mes, Leibroecklein, vnnd Kleyder antragen. Es moegen auch
jetztgedachte Manns Personen jhr (Aiij) Roeck vnd Maentel,
mit drey elen Sammat verbraemen oder vnterfuettern lassen.
Bey straff 4. guelden.
Was sonst andere namhaffte Buerger, Auch statliche Haend-
ler vnd Kauffleuth, dergleichen die Rathspersonen, vnd eines
Erbarn Raths vertrauwte vnnd fuernemme der Cantzlei ver-
wandte Diener, belanget, die moegen sich zwoer eln Sammat,
damit jre Roeck vnd Maentel zuverbraemen, wol gebrauchen,
Auch sonst alien andern seydenen Zeug (ausserhalb) Sammat,
seyden Rupff, doppeln seydenen Grobgruen, Niderlaendischen
Gaff a. Floret vnd seyden Trieb) allein zu Wammes, aber nit zu
Hosen antragen. Bey obgemelter straff der vier guelden.
Andere fuernemme Kraemer aber, wie gleichsfalls die Notarij,
Procuratores, vnnd so ohngefaehrlich dessen Stands seynd,
sollen mehr nicht, dann eine elen Sammats, zu verbraemung
jhrer Roeck oder Kleydung, zugebrauchen, macht haben.
Sonsten sol nechstgemelten, vnd in gemein, alien andern
Mannspersonen vnd j ungen Gesellen, aller Sammat vnd Seyden¬
gewandt, zu Wammes, oder Hosengesesz, verbotten : Gleich wol
* Gerichtsversammlung, aus griech. lat. synodus. Ags. seonod, ahd. senot, mhd.
sent.
64 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
aber Zendel dort, seyden Schamlott, gemeiner Taffet, vnnd
Grobgruen, zu halber oder gantzer Kleydung, anzutragen, er-
laubt seyn, Bey straff zehen Guelden.
Es sol auch hinfuero kein Manns Person oder junger Gesell
gestrickte Struempff, so vber vier, oder zum hoechsten, fuenff
Guelden werth seyn, antragen, bey straff zween Guelden.
Es sol auch hinfuero, sammate, damaste, atlase, vnd der-
gleichen seydene Kleydung, weder mit gueldenen, silberen, oder
andern statlichen, sondern allein mit seydenen Schnueren, zu
verbraemen vnd zubelegen zugelassen seyn. Sonst moegen die
Erbarn von den Geschlechten, Leder, oder andern schlechten
Zeug, so nicht seyden, mit einem silbern schnuerlein, beschei-
denlich : Die andere Manns Personen aber alle, mit einem sey¬
denen schnuerlein belegen. Bey straff sechs Guelden.
Alles sticken vnd steppen aber, es sey durch Schneider, Sey-
densticker, Naeherin, oder andere Personen, sol ferner, dann
hievor gemeldet, auch solche Kleydung anzutragen, gaentzlich
verbotten seyn. Bey straff zehen guelden.
Die sammete Paret, Hauben vnd Huet, moegen allein die
Erbare von den Geschlechten, vnd so gefreyetes Stands seynd,
wie obgemelt, Auch Perline Hutschnuer, ohngefaehrlich 20.
guelden werth, aufftragen. Andern aber, dieselbe durch ausz
verbotten seyn. Bey straff dreyer guelden.
Item, gueldene Ketten, wie auch seydene, vnd andere der-
gleichen Halszschnuer zutragen, seynd allein denen Manns Per¬
sonen, die es von alters hero vehig gewest, zugelassen. Doch
sol deren keiner einige gueldene Ketten vber 150. Kronen werth
antragen. Die Halszschnuer aber alien andern hiemit gaentz¬
lich verbotten seyn. Bey straff zehen Guelden.
Manns Kroesz vnd Kragen anlangend (damit biszhero vber-
maessiger Pracht getrieben worden) ist den Erbarn von den
Geschlechten zugelassen, Kraegen vnd Kroesz so mit Leinwath,
Macherlohn vnd allem, sechs guelden werth, vnd nicht vber
drey sechzehendtheil einer Elen hoch seynd, zutragen.
Der andern Namhafften, wie auch der gemeinen Buerger
Kroesz vnd Kraegen, sollen, mit Macherlohn, Leinwath vnd
allem, keines vber vier, vnd zweyer guelden werth, respectiue,
Auch nicht vber ein halb viertheil einer Elen hoch seyn. Aber
die hohe, lange, doppele vnd vngestalte Kroesz, an Kraegen vnd
Ermeln, wie auch die Spitzen an denselben zutragen, sol maen-
niglichen verbotten seyn. Alles bey straff dreyer Guelden.
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Was dann die Hantwercks Gesellen anlanget, moegen sie
jhre Kleyder, wie sie dieselbe mit sich hieher bringen, zween
Monat lang nach publication dieser Ordnung also tragen: Wo
sie aber darueber allhie bleiben woellen, so sollen sie sich dieser
Ordnung gemesz kleyden vnd halten. Bey nechstgemelter
straff.
Wie in gleichem auch die Schneider, so offt sie wider diese
Ordnung handeln, vnd hierinnen verbottene Kleydung ver-
fertigen wuerden, mit in verleibter straff, so wol als die jeni-
gen, so es bey jhnen bestellen, einem Erbarn Rath verfallen
seyn sollen.
Die Weibs Personen, vnd Deren Kleydung vnd Geschmack,
Belangend
Es sol kein Weibs Person oder Jungfraw einigen Rock,
Hosaecken oder Schauben, von gueldin oder silbern Tuch, noch
auch von gantzen Sammat, antragen. Dergleichen auch, an
vnd auff jren Kleydungen einig Perlin, gueldin oder silbern
gesticks Oder gesteps nicht anhaben, oder machen lassen. Bey
straff zehen Guelden.
Es moegen aber die jenige Weibs Personen, so von den
Erbarn Geschlechten seynd, Damaste, Atlase, vnd andere der¬
gleichen seydene Roeck vnd Hosaecken, doch durch ausz ohne
Leysten, vnverbraemt, vnd vngestept, wol antragen. Andere
seydene, von Schamlot vnd dergleichen, Hosaecken, Roeck oder
Sockeneyen aber, moegen sie mit drey eln Sammat, oder fuenff
Leysten von seydenem Zeug, deren jede ein viertheil einer Elen
hoch seyn sol, belegen. Auch die Leiblein, ausserhalb guel-
denen vnnd silbernen schnueren, mit allem andern Zeug ver-
braemen.
Sie moegen auch gueldene Haarhauben, vnd gueldene Ketten
antragen: Doch sollen der Weiber Ketten, so sie auff einmal
antragen werden, nicht vber hundert Kronen, vnd der Jung-
frawen Ketten, nicht vber viertzig Kronen, werth seyn.
Deszgleichen moegen sie auch gueldene Ringe, doch auff
einmal nicht mehr als sechs, sampt einem zimlichen (B) Halsz
Kleynot, vnd Perlin schnuer, wie auch ein par gueldene Arm-
band, welche doch vber dreyssig, oder auffs hoechst viertzig
Kronen, vnd nicht darueber, werth seyn, antragen. Alles bey
straff, von jedem vorgemeldten stueck, fuenff Guelden.
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66 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Was sonsten anderer Namhaffter Buerger, auch der Kaths-
freunden, vnd eines Erbarn Raths vertrawter, fuernemmer
Cantzley verwandter Diener Hausfrawen vnd Toechter be-
langen thut, denen sol aller Sammat, Damast, Atlasz, seyden
Scliamlot, vnd derglelchen Zeug, zu Roecken oder Schauben,
verbotten: Sonst aber aller anderer Gewandt (dock durch-
gehends ohn Sammat, ohne Belegen, auch ohne gesticks oder
gesteps) deszgleichen sammete Koeller, vnd seydene (doch
keine sammete, Niderlaendische Gaff a, Floret, vnd seyden
Triebs) Leiblin, anzutragen erlaubt seyn. Obgemelte Weibs
Personen, sollen auch keinen beschlagenen Guertel vber viertzig
guelden iverth, Auch auff einmahl nich mehr, als vier gueldene
Ring, vnd dann Paternoester oder Corallenschnuer, vngefaehr-
lich zehen guelden werth, deren Toechter aber, kein perlin
Baendlein, vber viertzig guelden vrerth, aufftragen. Die gantz
silberne verguelte Guertel aber, wie auch die gueldene Ketten,
Halskleynot, gueldene Haarhauben, verguelte Messerscheiden,
Auch die Wetzger vnd Beutel mit Perlen gesteckt, vnd ver-
guelten knoepffen, etc. sollen jnen zutragen gantz vnd gar ver¬
botten seyn. Doch moegen sie silberne beschlagene Leibguertel
vnd Messerscheiden, gantz weisz, auch auff jhren Beuteln ein
halb dutzend silberne Knoepff ohngefaehr, wie auch jhre
Toechter Haarlocken wol antragen, Es moegen nechstbe-
ruehrte Weibs Personen jre Sockeneyen* mit doppel Taffet,
Oder Atlasen Leisten, deren drey gleiche, jedeein viertheil (einer
eln hoch, oder ein breite, vnd zwo schmahle, deren die breite
drey viertheil hoch, vnd die zwo schmahlen, jede ein halb vier¬
theil einer Eln hoch seye, vmblegen, vnd ob sie woellen, mit
doppel Taffet vberstuertzen, Auch jre Leiblin, mit drey vier¬
theil einer Eln Sammat, verbraemen. Alles, von jedem stueck
insonderheit, bey straff zehen Guelden. So viel dann anderer
fuernemmen Kraemer, oder Notarien, Procuratorn, vnd deren,
so ungefaehrlich dessen Standts, Wesen vnd Herkommens seyn,
Weiber vnd Toechter anlangen thut, Denselbigen sol kein sey-
dener Zeug, zu Roecken oder Sockeneyen, zugelassen, sondern
von gemeinem Schamlot, Bursat, Grobgruen, wie auch sam¬
mete Koeller, vnd damaste Leiblin zutragen, erlaubt seyn.
Jetzt gemelte Weibs Personen, moegen auch beschlagene
Guertel, bisz in 25. oder 30. guelden werth, deszgleichen zween
* Grimm, Dwb. X, 1393. Weiblicher Ueberrock, aus slav. sukno-Wollengewand..
Voss— An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort,
67
Oder drey gueldine Ring auff einmal, Corallen Paternoester von
5. Oder 6. guelden werth, seydene Beutel ohn silberne oder
gueldine Borten, vnd ohn silberne Knoepff, auch sammete
Messerscheiden vnd sammete Leibguertel, doch die beyde mit
silber nit gantz beschlagen. So dann deren Toechter Perlin
Baendlein, 30. guelden werth, auffs hoechst, auch Haarlocken,
wol antragen. (Bij)
Sie moegen auch jhre Sockeneyen mit gemeinem Taffet, vnd
dreyen Leisten, deren jede ein viertheil einer Eln hoch seye,
belegen : Vnd, ob sie woellen, daran fuergehen lassen, auch jhre
Leiblin mit einer halben Eln Sammat verbraemen. Bey straff,
von jedem deren Stueck, acht Guelden.
Die Handwercks Weiber, gemeine Weinschaenckin, Kraem-
erin, vnnd andere, so mit schlechter Wahr vmbgehen, Auch die-
jenigen, so vngefaehrlich desselben Standts vnd Thuns seynd,
belangendt, denen sollen die seydene Kleyder, vnnd schamlotte
Roecke zutragen verbotten seyn: Doch moegen sie bursate
Roeck wie auch arresse, grobgruene, vnd dergleichen Socke¬
neyen, vnnd dann sammete Koeller, auch Leiblein von Zendel
dort, Taffet vnd Schamlot, wol antragen.
Es sol auch jetztgemelten Weibern, vnd jren Toechtern, ein-
igen beschlagenen Guertel vber funfftzehen oder zwantzig
Guelden werth, kein Perlin Baendlein vber zwantzig Guelden
werth, kein silberne Messer scheid noch Leibguertel, kein Wetz-
ger mit Gold oder Perlin gestickt, kein Corallen Paternoester,
kein Schleyer mit gueldenen Leisten oder Aufflegern, kein Haar-
schnur vber anderthalb Guelden werth, auch keine Haarlocken
zutragen gestattet werden.
Sie sollen auch hinfuero jre Sockeneyen mit burseten oder
macheyern zwoen Leisten, einer breitten vnd schmalen, deren
die eine drey viertheil Eln, Die andere aber ein halb viertheil,
zc. Oder aber zwo gleiche, die ebenmaessige Hoehe haben, be¬
legen, doch dieselbe mit seydenen Schnueren furters nicht
zuvnterlegen. Wie sie dann auch jr Leiblein mit anderthalb
viertheil einer Eln Sammat zuverbraemen, macht haben sollen.
Vnd sol jhnen zween gueldene Ring auff einmal zutragen vnver-
botten seyn. Alles bey straff, von jedem vorgesetzten stueck,
sechs guelden.
Sonsten aber alien andern Weibern, vnnd deren Toechtern,
auch Dienstmaegden, sol durchausz aller seydener Gewandt
(auszgenommen gemeiner Taffet vnd Schamlott, welchen sie zu
68 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
einem Koeller oder Leiblein, mit eim viertheil einer Eln Sam-
mat verbraemt, antragen moegen) verbotten seyn.
Deszgleichen sollen sie auch keinen Schleyer mit guelden
Leisten, kein Perlin Baendlein, auffs hoechst zehen oder funfft-
zehen Guelden werth, kein Haarschnur vber einen halben
guelden werth, aufftragen.
Ihre Roeck vnd Sockeneyen, sollen auffs hoechst Arres seyn,
doch moegen sie die Sockeneyen mit einer burseten oder
macheyern Leisten, vngefaehr einer halben Eln hoch, oder
zwoen gespaltenen Leisten, belegen lassen.
Sie sollen auch keine gueldene oder silberne Borten, keine von
silber beschlagene Guertel noch Messerscheiden, auch nicht
mehr, als auff einmal einen gueldenen Ring, antragen. Bey
straff von jedem gemelten stueck, zwen guelden. (Biij)
Die Kroesz belangend, sol es, in massen droben bey den
Manspersonen vermeldet, so viel den Preisz vnd Hoehe an-
langt, damit gehalten werden: Nemblich, desz ersten Standts
Weibspersonen, mit Leinwat, Macherlohn vnnd allem, sechs
guelden: Dem zweyten vnnd dritten Standt zu vier guelden:
Den vierdten vnnd fuenfften Standts Weibern zu zween guelden
werth.
Wie in gleichem die Auffschlaege betreffendt, ist den ersten
vnd zweyten Standts Weibspersonen, dieselbe ein viertheil Eln
hoch : Den dritten Standts Weibern ein halb viertheil einer Eln
hoch zutragen erlaubt: Den andern aber alien gaentzlich ver¬
botten.
Item, die Aufflaeger an den Schleyern, sollen den ersten vnd
zweyten Standts Weibspersonen, dieselbe, wie sie es von Alters
herbracht haben, Wie in gleichem dem dritten stand, doch
hoeher nit als zu sechs guelden vngefaehrlich auffzutragen zu-
gelassen, den andern alien aber gantz verbotten seyn,
Nach dem auch mit den Sammaten Hauben, vnd vber-
maessigen Mardern vnd Zobeln Braemen, grosser Miszbrauch
erwachsen : Als ist nothturfft halben angesehen worden, dasz
dieselben maenniglichen, (ausserhalb denen Erbarn von den
Geschlechten, vnnd den zweyten Standts Weibspersonen) zu-
verbieten seyen. Moegen demnach die im ersten Standt, die¬
selbe mit Zobel bescheidenlich : Die andern aber mit Mardern
Braemen vnterfuottern.
Die dritten Stands Weibs Personen, moegen (ausserhalb
Sammat) attlasze, damaste, seyden grobgruene, vnd dergleichen
Voss— An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 69
Zeugs Hauben, mit Marderem Futter vnterlegt, wol aufftragen.
Den vierdten Stands Weibs Personen, sollen Hauben von Taffet,
Zendeldort, (vnnd nicht von hoeherem Zeug,) mit schlechten
Mardern vnd Otter Braemen, zutragen erlaubt: Den fuenfften
Standts aber^ dieselbe, allein von Grobgruen vnnd dergleichen
Zeug, ohne Mardern Futter, (welches jnen gantz vnd gar ver-
botten seyn sol,) sondern mit Ottern Braemen zutragen zuge-
lassen seyn. Bey straff, von jedem gemelten stueck, dreyer
guelden.
Vnd nach dem vorgemelte Weibs Personen, jetzt, wider alle
Christliche Zucht vnd Erbarkeit, sehr im Branch haben, dasz
sie ohne Schleyer, schlecht in Hauben hin vnd wider in den
Gassen, vnd auch auff dem Marckt vmbhergehen. Also, dasz
man nicht wol wissen vnd vnterscheiden kan, welches Frauwen
Oder Jungfrauwen vnnd Maegden seyen: So wil vnnd gebeut
ein Erbarer Rath ernstlich, dasz hinfuero die Weibs Personen,
wann sie zu Gassen vnd Strassen gehen woellen, jhre Schleyer
auffhaben, vnd die Jungfrauwen vnd Dienstmaegd jhrem
Standt nach gemaesz sich tragen, vnd auszgehen sollen. Bey
straff eines guelden.
Die Beltzen Futter Belangendt
Dje gantze Mardern Futter moegen allein die vom Adel,
Doctores, vnd die Erbarn von Geschlechten, so Schoepffen vnd
Raths Personen sind, vnd deren Weiber. Aber Marderkeln Fut¬
ter moegen nit allein obgemelte Personen, sondern auch alle
andere Erbarn von Geschlechten vnd jre Weiber antragen.
Sonsten andere gemeine Futer mag ein jeder, nachdem er
zubezahlen vermag, anmachen lassen.
Hochzeit Ordnung
Nachdem auch im Jar der mindern Zahl Siebentzig vnd
Sechs, eine Ordnung der Hochzeiten halben gemacht, inn
welcher damals vor gut angesehen worden, dasz in geschenckten
vnd vngeschenckten Hochzeiten, mit Laden vnnd Speiszen,
gleichheit gehalten wuerde : So befindet doch nunmehr ein Er¬
barer Rath, auS'Z ehehafftem vnd sonderlichem Bedencken, auch
jetziger zeit Gelegenheit nach, dasz dieselbe etwas zulimitirn,
vnd wol zuaendern nothwendig seye.
Hat sich demnach volgender Ordnung verglicchen, vnd wil.
70 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
dasz hinfuero maenniglich in dieser Statt sich derselben nach
gehorsamlich, bey vnnachlaessiger Entrichtung einverleibter
straff, verhalte.
Das Laden Belangendt
Unnd so viel erstlich die freye: oder vngeschenckte Hoch-
zeiten betrifft, dieweil dieselbe von Alters hero, bey niemands
anders, als den Erbarn von den Geschlechten, auch etlichen
andern Namhafiten Buergern vnd statlichen Haendlern vnd
Kauffleuten, im Branch gewesen vnd noch : Leszt man es auch
nachmals also, vnd bey jhrer Willkuehr verbleiben. Doch wil
ein Erbar Rath, dasz solche von jhnen bescheidenlich celebrirt,
vnd vber neun, oder auffs hoechst, zehen Tisch, darzu nicht er-
betten werden. Bey straff, von jedem Tisch, fuenff guelden.
Sonsten zu geschenckten Hochzeiten, sol niemands weiter
geladen werden, dann desz Breutigams vnd der Brant nechst-
gesipte Freunde, vnd deren Ehegemahlen, Als nemblich: In
auffsteigender Linien, desz Breutgams vnd der Brant Rechte:
Oder Stiffvatter vnd Mutter, oder, wo sie nicht Eltern hetten,
jhre Vormuender vnnd derselben Ehegemahlen. Deszgleichen
jrer beyder Rechte: vnd Stiff: An Herrn vnd An Frauwen, zc.
In absteigender Linien, desz Breutgams vnd der Brant (im fall
die zuvor im Ehestand gewesen) Eheliche Kinder, sampt jhren
Ehegemahlen, vnd Toechtern, zc. In der neben Linien, desz
Breutgams vnd der Brant Brueder, Schwestern, auch derselben
Kinder, sampt jren Ehegemahlen, oder derselben Witwern vnd
Witwinnen, Deszgleichen jhres Vatters vnd Mutter Brueder
vnd Schwester, auch derselben Kinder, Soehne vnd Toechter,
als die mit jhnen leibliche rechte oder einhalb geschwisterte
Kinder sind, sampt deren Ehegemahlen, auch diejenigen, so
mit jrem Vatter vnd Mutter Geschwister Kinder gewesen, oder
noch sind, sampt deren Ehegemahlen, vnd nicht weiter, laden.
(C)
Vonwegen der Schwaegerschafft, mag der Breutgam seiner
vorigen Hauszfrawen Brueder vnd Schwestern, sampt deren
Ehegemahlen, auch derselbigen Kinder vnd deren Ehegemahlen,
vnnd nicht weiter, laden : Gleichergestalt auch die Braut thun
mag. Aber derselben Schwaeger, das ist, Schwagers Schwae-
ger, sollen, als vnverwandte Personen, gar nicht geladen
werden. Alles bey straff, von jeder Person, so jetztgemelter
Foss— Ordinance of the City of Frankfort. 71
Ordnung zuwider geladen wirdt, dreyer guelden vnnacMaesz-
lich zubezahlen.
Doch moegen sie zu den Gesiepten, acht par, das ist,
sechszehen vnverwandte Personen, vnd nit drueber laden.
Were es aber sach, dasz zwey zur Ehe grieffen, die beyder-
seits keine, oder vber seeks paar, verwandter Personen
nicM hetten, denen sol erlaubt seyn, dasz jeder theil noch seeks
paar Volcks', das ist, dem Breiitgam zwoelff, vnd der Brant
zwoelff Personen, ob sie woellen, laden moegen, vnd nicht
drueber, bey Peen, von jeder Person, eines guelden.
Vnd wil hiemit ein Erbarer Rath keinem mehr (’wie etv^an
biszhero vielfaltiger weisz durch ansuchung geschehen) dann
obstehet, zugelassen haben.
So sollen auch von den Jungen Gesellen, so nit verwandt
sind, wie obsteht, mehr nicht als acht Personen geladen werden,
Doch, dasz ein jeder derselben vnverwandten, achtzehen, (bisz
in zwantzig) Jahre, vnnd nicht darunter, alt sey. Deszgleichen
von Jungfrawen, so nit verwand sind, auch acht Personen,
deren ein jede vber fuenffzehen Jahr, vnd nicht darunter, alt
seye, geladen werden. Bey Peen, von jeder Person, eines
guelden, es erscheine gleich dieselbige geladene Person oder
nicht.
Zum andern, So sollen hinfuero, weder zu geschenckter noch
vngeschenckter Hochzeit nicht mehr als drey Jmbs, Als nemb-
lich: Den ersten Tag zwey, vnnd den andern Tag das Nacht
Imbs, gehalten werden.
Doch, so frembde auszlaendische Personen zur Hochzeit ge¬
laden weren, die moegen den ersten Vorabend, deszgleichen den
zweyten Tag zu Mittag allein, sampt der Braut vnd Breutgams
Eltern vnnd Geschwisterten, in der Braut oder des Breutgams,
Oder deren Eltern, oder Verwandten Behaussungen, oder an
dem Orth, da die Hochzeit gehalten wirdt, jhre Imbs nemmen,
vnnd sol ferner niemands darzu geladen werden. Wer solches
vbertretten wird, sol von jedem Imbs zehen guelden zur straffe
vnnachlaeszlich bezahlen.
Es sollen auch die Gartenfahrten, deszgleichen der Jungen
Gesellen vmblauffen auff den Gassen mit den Spielleuten in die
Wirthshaeuser, auch nach gehaltener Hochzeit das Nach
Zechen, spatzieren, vnnd auff die Hoefe vnd Doerffer vmbher-
gehen oder fahren, gantz vnd gar abgestellt vnd verbotten seyn,
bey der vorgemelten straffe der zehen guelden. (Cij)
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Zum dritten, die Spielleut belangendt, sol allein den Erbarn
von den Geschlechten, bey jhrem alten vblichen Gebrauch vnd
Herkommen zubleiben, frey stehen: Aber alien andern, wes
Standts vnd Wesen sie auch seyen, sol auffs hoechst drey Spiel-
maenner zuhaben, erlaubt seyn, welchen auch, einem jeden in-
sonderheit, mehr nicht, als von jedem Imbs ein halber guelden
gegeben werden sol. Wer solches vberfuehr, sol von jedem
Spielmann drey guelden zu busz verfallen seyn.
Zum vierdten, die Braeutsuppen belangendt, sollen dieselben
bey maenniglichen abgestellt, vnnd auszzugeben gantz vnd gar
verbotten seyn, bey straff, von jeder Suppen, eines guelden, den
ein jeder, beyde der Geber vnnd Nemmer, erlegen sollen. Es
hette dann der Breutgam oder die Braut eine oder mehr ver-
wandte Personen, die Schwachheit halben nicht erscheinen
koendten, denen mag man, nach eines jeden Gelegenheit, ein
Essen zu Hausz, wie herkommen, schicken.
Zum fuenfften, sollen auch hinfuero die Kuechenmeister vnd
Koechinne, auch die Kammerfrawen, vnd andere, so zur Hoch-
zeit dienen, kein sonderlich Geloch oder Gasterey in jhren oder
andern Haeusern halten, sondern mit jhrem Lohn, vnnd Essen,
so jhnen zur Hochzeit gegeben v/irdt, zufrieden seyn. Bey
straff fuenff guelden. Vnnd sol jhnen nicht mehr, wie es
zeithero sehr miszbraeuchlich geschehen, Tischweise, sondern
zu grossen vnnd Herren Hochzeiten, nemblich dem Kuechen¬
meister fuenff Oder sechs guelden, der Koechin gleich so viel,
vnd der Kammerfrawen zween guelden, vor jhre Muehe vnnd
Arbeit zu Lohn gegeben werden : Aber zu den gemeinen
schlechten Hochzeiten halb soviel.
Zum sechsten, die Tischdiener vnd Thorhueter belangend, sol
einem jeden einen Tag vier albus zu Lohn, vnd ferner kein Brot
noch Wein, oder ander Essenspeisz (wie biszhero vielfaltig ge¬
schehen) heimzutragen gegeben werden. Alles bey straff eines
guelden, welchen der Nemmer so wol, als der Geber verwirckt
haben sol.
Zum siebenden, so Schenckhochzeiten gehalten, vnd Becken
auffgesetzt werden, moegen die Verv/andten nach jhren Ehren
vnd Wolgef alien, wie viel sie woellen, Aber die Verwandten
sollen das paar Eheleut, nicht mehr, dann einen Goldtguelden
schencken. Bey straff fuenff guelden.
Die Junge Gesellen sollen, ein jeder ein halbe Kronen oder
Voss— An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 73
zwoelff Patzen, vnd die Jungfrauwen acht Patzen, vnd nicht
mehr schencken, bey straff zweyer guelden.
Zum achten, die Oertenhochzeiten belangendt, nach dem die-
selbe den Hochzeitleuten, bevor ab den geringern, also bequem-
lich vnd gut, biszhero vnverbotten gewesen. So leszt ein Er-
barer Rath dieselbe nachmals passim. Mag demnach ein jeder,
nach seiner Gelegenheit, einem Wirth oder Gasthalter, auff eine,
zwo, Oder drey (Ciij) Mahlzeiten, vnd nicht drueber, seine
Gaeste vnnd Hochzeitleut auffdingen. Doch sol er sich mit
dem Laden, Gartenfaehrten, Spielleuten, vnd Essen geben, vor-
geschriebener Ordnung nach gemaesz verhalten.
Zum neundten, dieweil jetziger schwerer vnd thewrer Zeit
halben, bey dem gemeinen Mann sehr wol vnnd nuetzlich auff-
kommen, dasz jhrer etwan zwen, drey, vier oder mehr paar
Volcks, zugleich mit einander zwar zur Kirchen gehen, aber
nuhrend von einem derselbigen die Hochzeit allein gehalten
wirdt. Da dann derselbige Haupt Breutgam seinen Vortheil,
nicht ohne nachtheil der andern, mit allerhandt ein: vnd ausz
dingen, erseihet vnd gebrauchet, (vber welches dann viel
Klagens biszhero angehoeret.) So ist demnach eines Erbarn
Raths gaentzlicher Will vnnd Meynung, dasz hinfurthan jedes
paar, so mit einem andern zur Kirchen gehet, aber zu keinem
Imbs erscheinet, einen Reichsthaler, vnnd nicht drueber, dem
Haupt Breutgam zuerlegen, schueldig seyn sol. Im fall aber
jemands auch zu den dreyen zugelassenen Imbsen erschiene,
doch kein Vnterschenck hielte, sol von jhme vier guelden auffs
hoechst, mit Schenckung vnnd allem, vnwegerlichen entrichtet
werden. So aber Vnter schencken gehalten, Gebratenes vnnd
andere dem zugehoerige ding, mit gegeben wuerden, sol der
Haupt Breutgam von jedem derselben paar, sechs guelden inn
allem, vnnd nicht mehr, fordern vnnd zugewarten haben. Alles
bey straff, von jedem vbertrettenem stueck, zwen guelden.
Vnnd letzlichen. So viel die Zusammenkunfft zun Hochzeit-
mahlzeiten anlangen thut, dieweil biszhero ein vberausz ver-
driezliche Vnordnung darausz entstanden vnnd vergangen,
nicht ohne sonderliche Verhindernuesz aller anderer der Hoch¬
zeit Geschefften, darueber sich dann auch etwan die frembde
geladene Personen mit Vnwillen verwundern muessen: So wil
demnach ein Erbar Rath hiemit ernstlich befohlen haben, dasz
auff alien, hohen vnd nidrigen Standts, Hochzeiten, hinfurthan
die Mittags Imbs vmb eylff, vnnd die Abend Imbs zu sieben
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vhrn, auffs laengst, angefangen, vnd deren keins vber die dritte
stunde erstrecket noch gehalten werden sol. Bey straff, von
jedem Imbs, zwen guelden, welche der Breutgam zuerlegen
schueldig seyn sol.
So offt auch jemands der Hochzeit Gaeste, vber ein viertheil
nach zwoelff vhrn desz Nachts, im Tantzhausz, oder an dem
Orth, inn welchem die Hochzeit gehalten wirdt, erf unden
wuerde, Sol derselbe jedesmahl mit einem halben guelden ver-
buessen.
Die Andern Grossen Gastereyen Belangendt
Nachdem nicht allein bey Hochzeiten, sondern auch in andern
Gastereyen, allerley vberflusz (vnangesehen, dasz alles, was der
Mensch geleben sol, zu diesen beschwerlichen Zeiten in hohem
preisz ist) geuebt vnd gebraucht wird, vnd je einer vber den
andern seyn, vnd etwan der vnvermoeglicher den vermoeglich-
ern es nachthun woellen, zu zeiten auch nicht zu geringem jrem
selbstverderben : So ordnet vnd wil ein Erbarer Rath, dasz hin-
fuero nicht allein auff Hochzeiten vnd Weinkauffen, sondern
auch solchen Gastmahlzeiten, auff ein jedes Imbs nit vber drey
Trachten, den Keesz darein gerechnet, gegeben, vnd dabey vber
zwey Neben Gericht oder Bey trachten von Fleisch oder Fisch,
auffgesetzt werden sollen, Ausserhalb bey dem Keesz, mag man
Gebackens, Obsz, vnd dergleichen ding mit auffsetzen. Doch,
so etwan stattliche vnd Herrn Hochzeiten gehalten wuerden,
mag man zu jeden vorgesetzten Trachten drey oder vier Neben-
gericht, vnd mehr nicht, vorsetzen.
Vnd sollen hiemit die Collatzien vnd Schlafftruenck nach dem
Nachtessen, dieweil dieselbe ein lauterer vnnuetzer, schaed-
licher vnnd suendlicher vberflusz seynd, gar abgeschafft seyn,
vnd durchgehends niemands mehr gestattet werden. Bey
straff von jedem Mahl zehen guelden. Doch ob etwan einer
frembde Auszlaendische ansehenliche Personen zu gast halten
woelte, dem sol hiedurch vnbenommen seyn, dieselbe etwas
reichlicher, nach gelegenheit derselben Personen, zutractirn.
Letzlich, die Beylager belangend, dieweil bey denselben bisz-
hero auch zuuiel vnnoetiger vnd vbermaessiger Unkosten vnd
Pracht, Auch von den geringen Stands Personen, mit grossem
nachtheil vnd schaden jhrer selbsten, angewendet, vnnd ge-
spueret worden. So wil ein Erbar Rath von maenniglichen die-
selben mit masz vnd groesserer bescheidenheit hinfurter ge-
Voss — An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 75
halten haben. Vnd dieweil auch jeder ausz vorgesatzter Ord-
nung leichtlich abnemmen kan, was vnd wieviel jm (seinem
standt nach) hierinnen vnverweiszlich zuthun gebuere, vnd wol
anstehe, wird er sich selbst darnacb zuverhalten wissen, Oder
aber eines Erbarn Raths vnnachlaessiger straif (welche jm ge-
dachter ein Erbarer Rath hiemit ausztruecklich vorbehalten
haben wil) der Vbertrettung halben, alsz dann gewertig seyn.
Es sollen auch die Braeutschuhe, so die zeithero, ohne sonder-
lichen nutz, vnd nur allein zum Pracht, von Sammat, mit Goldt,
Silber, Seyden vnnd Perlin gestickt vnd zugerichtet worden,
gaentzlich abgeschafft, vnd kein par vber eines Guelden werth
gemacht noch getragen werden, bey straff dreyer Guelden,
damit, so wol der sie macht, als der sie betstellt vnd antraegt,
verfallen seyn sol.
Die Kindbeth Belangendt
Setzt ein Erbar Rath, dasz ein jede Kindbetterin zu dem
Kind Tauff, vber diejenigen, so bey jhr in Kindsnoehten ge-
wesen weren, vnd die Gevatterin, oder (D) desz Gevattern
Hauszfrawen, nit mehr als jres Hauszwirths vnd jr gesipte
Weibs Personen, wie hievor in der Hochzeit Ordnung vermeldet
wird, bitten sol. Hette aber die Kindbetterin oder jr Hausz-
wirth wenig oder keine gesipte Freunde allhie, so sol sie vber
die Gevatterin, vnd die Personen, so bey jhr inn Kindsnoehten
gewesen weren, nicht mehr als zwoelff Frawen Personen zu der
Kind Tauff bitten vnnd laden. Bey straff eines Gulden, von
jeder Person, so hierueber gebetten wird.
Doch wil ein Erbar Rath, die Kindbetterin von den Erbarn
Geschlechten, hiemit nit verstanden, noch jnen an jrem alten
Gebrauch vnd Herkommen jchtwas benommen haben, Versiehet
sich aber doch, ein jede derselbigen werde sich hierinnen also
verhalten, damit jnen selbst kein verweisz vnd nachtheil
darausz entstehe: Daher dann ein Erbarer Rath moechte
vervrsacht werden, ein billiches Einsehen auch zuhaben.
Ferner, welcher, oder Vv^elche ein Kind ausz der H. Tauff zu-
heben gebetten wird, vnd der, oder die, desz Kinds Vatter oder
Mutter, Oder sonst mit siepschafft, wie vorstehet, verwandt
were, die moegen dem Tauff pettern oder Gaden, nach jrem ge-
fallen Schenck thun. Aber die den Tauffpettern oder Gaden,
Oder dessen Vatter oder Mutter solcher gestalt nicht verwandt.
76 V/isconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
sollen vber zween guelden in allem nicht schencken. Bey straff
vier Guelden.
Nachdem auch in den Kindbetten biszhero allerley vn-
noehtiger vberfiusz, so wol in anstellung der Mahlzeiten, als
auch mit dem geschmuck der Gevatterin Kuchen (wie solche
im brauch gewesen) getrieben worden. Als wil ein Erbar
Rath gemelteh vberfiusz (so viel die Kuchen belangt) nunmehr
gentzlich abseschafft, Vnd dann, soviel die Mahlzeiten betrifft,
wofern es der Kindbetterin gelegenheit seyn wuerde, nach ver-
richter Tauff, den jenigen Weibs Personen, so jhr in Kinds-
noehten beygewohnet, sampt der Gevatterin, auch denen,
welche jr mit naher siepschafft zugethan seynd, ein zimliche,
jrem stand gemesz, Mahlzeit zugeben, Die Vbermasz hiemit
ernstlich verbotten haben. Vnd sollen hiedurch die Mahlzeiten,
welche die Kindbetterin nach den vier Wochen zuhalten ge-
pflogen, wie auch die Mannszgelach in den Kindbetten, durch-
gehends bey alien stands Personen, weder vor oder nach den
vier Wochen zuhalten gantz vnd gar eingestelt vnd verbotten
seyn. Bey straff, wer darwider handeln wuerde, von jeder Per¬
son zweyer Guelden. Doch den Maanspersonen die Kind-
schenck auff den Zunfftstuben, altem gebrauch nach, zuhalten
vnd zubesuchen vnbenommen, doch dasz sie nach gehaltener
Zech mit den Gevattern nicht heimgehen, vnnd eine newe Zech
anfangen. Bey vorgemelter straff, von jeder Personen.
Als auch in dieser Statt von alters gebraeuchlich gewesen,
dasz der Gevatter, oder Gevatterin, sein Tauff Paten, wann der
seine fuenff, oder nach gelegenheit, sechs Jahr erreicht, ein be-
sonder Paten Roecklein machen, vnd damit verehren lassen.
Solchs aber nu ein zeit hero, bey jedermaenniglich in einen
solchen miszbrauch erwachsen, vnd dahin gerahten, dasz man
es numehr fuer eine (gleich wol boese) gewonheit achten, vnd
ins gemein gleichsam fuer ein schuldigkeit halten thut, dasz
nemlich der Gevatter oder Gevatterin, seinen Tauff Paten mit
einer gantzen Kleidung, von fusz auff, auszstaffiren lassen
muesse. Darinn dann je einer vor dem andern gesehen seyn,
vnd biszweilen zu jrem selbst mercklichen schaden, beuor thun
woellen. Ausz welcher vnordnung vnd miszbrauch erfolgt,
dasz Christliche hertzen, welche die Gevattern bitten sollen, so
wol auch die zu solchem Ehrnwerck etwan zeitlich erbetten
werden, an statt dessen, so sie sich, als eines Christlichen
Wercks billich erfrewen sollen, etwan dagegen entsetzen
Voss — An Ordinance of the City of Frankfort, 77
muessen. So wil offternannter ein Erbar Rath solchen misz-
brauch hiermit auch abgeschafft, vnnd solche Kleydung gaentz-
lich verbotten haben, Jedoch gleichwol den Gevattern oder Ge-
vatterin vnbenommen, sein Tauffpaten, neben obgemelter zu-
gelassener schenckung, gleich jnnerhalb vier Wochen nach der
Tauff mit einem hembdlein, wie von alters herkommen, zu-
verehren, welchs vber zwen, oder zum hoechsten drey guelden
nit werth seyn sol, Bey straff, wer dieses vberfahren wuerde,
zehen guelden, die, so wol der Gevatter, als auch der Schneider,
so die Kleyder, wie obgemelt, machen wuerde, vnnachlaeszlich
zuentrichten verfallen seyn sollen.
Vnd sol diese Ordnung nach verscheinung dreyer Monat, von
Publicirung derselben, angehen, vnd fuerthers, bisz auff eines
Erbarn Raths ferner Verordnung, also gehalten werden.
—Conclusum in Senatu, Donnerstags, den 15. Decembris,
Anno 1597.
THE DIAMOND MINING INDUSTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA
Rufus Mather Bagg
Introduction
The discovery in 1866 of a 21 carat diamond by a Dutch
farmer, Schalk Van Niekerk, which was being used as a play¬
thing by some children at Hopetown, was an epoch making
event in the economic development of South Africa. Niekerk
gave it to a trader O’Reilly who took it to Cape Town for in¬
spection. Here a French jeweller pronounced it a diamond of
first quality and priced it at $2,500. This gem was sold and
the proceeds honestly divided with the former owner. Two
years later Niekerk bought a second stone from a Hottentot
for $2,000 which weighed 83 1/^ carats and this he immediately
sold for $56,000, It was later known as the “Star of the
South” and is now in possession of the Countess of Dudley.
These discoveries led to the immediate rush of diamond dig¬
gers in large numbers searching for stones in the Vaal river
gravels, which, if found, could change the status of the owner
in one day from poverty to riches. In no other form of mining
is the element of chance so remarkable or rewards so instan¬
taneous, but on the other hand no other kind of mining pre¬
sents a greater gambler’s luck and the digger frequently re¬
mains in poverty, using the funds of each random discovery to
finance his further explorations.
The writer met some of these miners washing gravel 40 miles
west of Kimberley at Longlands on the Vaal river and they
were most interesting characters who had experienced the ups
and downs of life with all its hazards.
Kimberley
No one thinks of diamonds without a vision of Kimberley
and this “City of Diamonds” owes its existence to diamond
mining alone and upon this industry its entire future pros¬
perity and life depends. Kimberley was a semi-arid plain of
the high Karroo in 1867, but a cluster of miners tents in 1870
80 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
when the city was founded. Kimberley is a most interesting
place to visit, but the greatest sight here and one of the unique
sights of the world lies within five minutes walk of Market
Square near the Post Office. This is the OLD KIMBERLEY
MINE, the second largest diamond mine hole on earth, being
exceeded only by the Premier 25 miles east of Pretoria, Trans¬
vaal province.
The famous Old Kimberley mine is now abandoned, but was
dug to a depth of 3,601 feet. It covers an area of 38.19 acres
and the perimeter measures 0.93 mile. There was no “Yellow
Ground’’ at this volcanic pipe and the entire workings were in
“Blue Ground” 800 feet thick. Below the blue comes a mela-
phyre, then a quartzite 800 feet thick resting upon a granite
base through which the Kimberlite pipe erupted from a still
greater depth. The bottom of the mine is filled with water up
to 1300 feet from the surface and the crater walls have caved
downward. Trees and brush are growing on the talus slopes.
This pipe trends north and south, but with a width in this di¬
rection of 1,550 feet and an east and west axis of 1,500 feet the
opening appears nearly circular.
The remarkable thing about the Old Kimberley mine was the
high yield of diamonds per load which amounted to 30 carats
per 100 loads.*
Low as this recovery might appear to be, it is nearly double
that of most of the Kimberley pipes now being worked. In
fact, so few diamonds occur in Kimberlite that it is only rarely
a stone is found in situ.
This minute amount of diamond content may be better under¬
stood if you take a “ten carat” mine, which is quite a good
mining proposition; the richness would be equal to 2 grams
per 100 loads each weighing 1600 pounds, or less than one
twenty-two thousandths of one per cent. This means one dia¬
mond, on the average, in 40 cubic feet of broken blue ground.
Only three or four volcanic pipes are worked to-day within a
radius of four miles at Kimberley, the more important being
the Wesselton, Bulfontein and the Dutoitspan. We collected
blue ground from the latter at a depth of 1350 feet, for the
deeper mines are now being developed both by open pit and
shaft methods. The mines of Kimberley and of the Premier,
* A load, the unit of measurement of South African diamond rock, represents
16 cubic feet of broken blue ground, roughly equal to 1,600 pounds.
Bag g— The Diamond Mining Industry of South Africa. 81
400 miles northeast in the Transvaal, supply the bulk of the
world’s diamonds to-day, but the production could easily be ex¬
panded if trade demanded. A larger yield than $60,000,000 a
year would lower the price and flood the market. The De
Beers Consolidated not only controls the production, but they
stabilize the price of diamonds to prevent a collapse of the
industry.
The wealth taken from within an area of four square miles
at Kimberley has exceeded one billion dollars in less than 50
years, a truly astonishing sum expended upon a luxury and not
a necessity of life.
It is difficult to gain any idea of the magnitude of diamond
mining operations from description. The great pulsator plant
near the Wesselton mine pulverizes 11,000 tons of blue ground
daily, uses nearly one million gallons of water for washing
which comes from the Vaal river 17 miles distant. If only one
diamond is recovered from three loads, which is perhaps a fair
average, the day’s run would furnish about 4,430 diamonds, but
of very varied size and value.
Kimberley lies 647 miles north of Cape Town in the Orange
Free State and is a city of 17,095 whites and 21,095 colored.
It lies at an elevation of 4,018 feet and is wind swept by the
dust storms of the Kalahari desert to the west, but has a fair
rainfall in the wet season.
The city is irregularly laid out and like most mining camps
the streets cross at all angles. The museum is rich in Bush¬
man art relics, diamond exhibits and beautiful mineral speci¬
mens, but for a municipality which has produced such exceed¬
ing wealth the buildings are not imposing.
Kimberlite Pipes
The number of volcanic pipes and dikes of Kimberlite dia¬
mond bearing rock in South Africa is unknown for they are
scattered over an enormous territory in groups from the Orange
Free State southwest boundary, to Pretoria of the Transvaal
and northward in isolated areas into the Belgian Congo. Many
are so concealed by ages long surface weathering that they are
discovered by accident, as where a few gems have weathered
out at the surface of the pipe.
There are at least 60 such pipes in the vicinity of Kimberley
which have broken through the red granite base, overlying
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quartzites, slates, melaphyres and Dwyka shales above. They
are without any orderly arrangement, occur in varying dimen¬
sions, shapes, and igneous rock composition ; and what is more
remarkable, these pipes differ in area downwards and pinch
out into dike like extensions on one side as if occurring as a
swelling in some original fissure. The Old Kimberley mine
was nearly circular at the surface and nearly 1600 feet across,
but with its axis trending north and south; at a depth of only
340 feet the pipe was an oval measuring 820 by 500 feet, but at
2,160 feet this had contracted to a width of 250 feet. At a still
greater depth the pipe seemed to have moved bodily eastward
for quite a distance and from this bottom working, had sent
out a tongue-like dike in a north-northwest direction toward
the St. Augustine mine, and this mine at 800 feet becomes a
wide fissure striking toward the Old Kimberley pipe.
What was more surprising to me was the fact that even
within one pipe diamonds differed from one end of the crater to
the other, and in each pipe the diamonds are so different that
an expert can tell at a glance from what mine a given gem has
come. Nearly all the stones from the Dutoitspan mine are of a
distinct yellow shade, but of very remarkable size. I saw one
just recovered from the washing table in July 1929 that
weighed 199 carats* — a perfect octahedron crystal valued at
|10,000 uncut.
The crystals from the South African mines are nearly all
octahedrons, but with modified surfaces, bevelled edges, curved
or fluted as well as etched by tetrahedral depressions.
Dodecahedral and other isometric forms occur, but they are
not as abundant as the octahedron. Jagersfontein stones are
usually cleavage fragments, Koffyfontein gems are nearly pure
white, Voorspoed diamonds are dull and very hard to cut, while
those from the Wesselton are cold blue-white crystals of purest
water, but of small size and usually less than 2 or 3 carats
weight.
Kimberley produces stones weighing several hundred carats
and, of the million dollars worth of freshly collected diamonds
from the Kimberley pipes, I noted a good many weighing from
10 to 30 carats each.
The largest diamond in the world, however, came from the
* A carat = 0.2 gram or about 3.1 grains.
Bagg — The Diamond Mining Industry of South Africa, 83
Premier mine in the Transvaal. This immense diamond
weighed uncut 3,035% carats, or 1.37 pounds avoirdupois, but
it was only a cleavage piece from a still greater octahedron,
whose adjoining parts have never been discovered. The mine
superintendent told me that, when they found this diamond, he
threw it over the railroad track feeling certain that such an
immense crystal could only be a chunk of glassy quartz.
The Kimberley pipes and similar diamond bearing igneous
intrusions broke through an enormous thickness of overlying
granite and sedimentary strata with explosive outpourings
which continued through a long period in late Cretaceous time.
Many of these deep-seated basic Peridotites now called Kimber¬
lites are connected at great depths by fissure fillings of the
same igneous magmas, but the igneous rocks vary widely in
composition and in mineral content.
The Kimberlite is an ultra-basic rock containing enough min¬
erals and gem crystals to fill a museum, but the more abundant
and best crystallized types include Olivine, Chrome Diopside
which is often in large crystals. Garnets, often so abundant in
masses as to constitute Eclogite rock with scarcely any other
mineral present, Enstatite, Phlogopite, Magnetite, Spinel, Sap¬
phire, Cyanite, Hornblende, and of course, the Diamond.
The huge green diopside crystals we found at the Wesselton
mine seemed translucent enough to be gems and the garnets
look like true red rubies. Many other minerals occur both sec¬
ondary and original, and the pyrite crystals caught on the wash¬
ing tables are very perfect and of fair size.
The rock fragments in the Blue Kimberlite seem to include
granite and granite gneiss, schist, slate, shale, quartzite, por¬
phyry and basalt. Serpentine is present and the limestone in¬
filling in one of the Kimberley pipes is very difficult to explain.
The wedge-shaped felsitic porphyry mass at the Premier
mine is tapering downward and will soon be entirely removed
as the pipe comes together at each end around this "‘horse’'
which must have fallen in from above during the explosive
eruptions of the Kimberlite. It is this brecciation of the in¬
filling igneous rock which makes decomposition so rapid and
which assists in crushing without destruction of the diamond.
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Occurrence of Diamonds in South Africa
It is safe to assume that the original home of all African dia¬
monds found in river gravels all over the Union, the sea coast,
and in volcanic brecciated pipe fillings in widely separated
areas, came from igneous magmas lifted by explosive forces
from great depths within the earth's crust. The diamond looks
as if it were an accidental occurrence rather than an original
primary mineral of the ultra basic Kimberlite.
The alluvial stones below the Premier were traced back to
the old crater walls of the pipe and diamonds far from these
interior pipes show stream abrasion and water wear. While
the bulk of South African stones come from the high Karroo
plateau and in true igneous eruptive pipes, gems have been
found in the Witwatersrand gold bearing conglomerates of
Pre-Cambrian age, in the Forest Sandstone of Upper Triassic
time, most abundantly in the late Cretaceous eruptions, but in
the Tertiary and Recent formations in river gravels, sand¬
stones and coastal deposits, especially on the west coast as far
northward as Port Nolloth and on islands off shore. Each year
seems to add new discoveries and the Namaqualand surface
diamonds of surprising beauty and size occur in such abund¬
ance as to prove a menace to diamond crushing at the great in¬
terior pipe centers. I saw these cut at Cape Town and they
were remarkably free from flaws and inclusions, and the color
was unsurpassed.
Premier Pipe, Transvaal
While the diamond mining center is and probably will al¬
ways be around Kimberley in the Orange Free State, the largest
and richest diamond mine in the world lies 25 miles east of
Pretoria, the administrative capital of the Union with a total
population of white and colored of 100,000. Pretoria is a won¬
derful city with beautiful buildings, museum, zoological gardens
and parks; with its suburbs included, it covers an area of 40
square miles. The Government buildings cost over five million
dollars and are so situated that a most commanding view of the
entire region can be had from the central archways and plat¬
form steps.
Pretoria does not depend entirely upon diamond mining as
does Kimberley farther south, but the biggest diamond mine on
Bagg — The Diamond Mining Industry of South Africa, 85
earth only 25 miles away must have had some influence upon
the growth of the city. It is worth a trip to Pretoria to stand
at the edge of this gigantic man-made surface opening, worked
for 27 years, covering 78 acres and dug to a depth of 650 feet,
with workings in 50 foot benches. The general grade of the
mine is worked at per cent, the fall being from the South
to the North end. The broken ground is hauled up to the re¬
duction plant crushers 3000 feet on a grade of one in five feet.
The Premier pipe is oval, with the longer axis trending north¬
east; it is about 2,000 feet long and 1500 feet in width, or
roughly one-half mile by a quarter of a mile, and from the rim
presents an awe-inspiring spectacle. The size of this gem¬
mining industry at the Premier can be judged when you learn
that 5,000 natives and 570 white men are employed throughout
the company's works. The output up to August 31, 1928
amounted to 121,119,541 loads of ground, which have been
treated by the combined gears, and from which have been re¬
covered diamonds weighing 27,020,773 carats.
From the way the present walls of the pipe stand up it is
known that this open pit method of mining at the Premier can
be followed downward to a depth of 1000 to 1200 feet, and
nine bore holes from 300 to 1001 feet still continue in diamond
bearing rock. This depth of workings will represent
400,000,000 loads of ground of 16 cubic feet each and, cal¬
culated on the present rate of production of 12,000,000 loads
per annum, will make it possible to dig in this pipe for 34
years without resorting to shaft and tunnel mining methods.
Recovery of Diamonds
Alluvial washings present no difficulty in diamond recovery,
but they do involve treatment of enormous tonnage for carat
extraction. After washing in revolving pans with walking
arms for cleaning mud and sediment away, the pebble gravel
deposit left behind is spread out on burlap-covered tables,
scrapers are run over the wash and the brilliant glistening
gem stones are picked out by hand.
Dams are constructed along the river basin, waters con¬
trolled by selective intake, gravel raised in benches and in
zones from the river bed and, if these rolled materials have
not already been gone over, they may yield some beautiful
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stones which are of very superior quality and, when of large
size, far surpass the pipe recovered stones in money value.
In mining diam^onds from Kimberlite the process is in¬
volved and we wonder how a tiny gem stone can go through
the blasting process from the bench floor, be hauled in cable
cars like ordinary rock to the crusher, gyratory, washing pan,
sizing grizzleys, and then be floated out on grease tables to be
caught in vaseline while the broken pebbly wash material
rushes on to the slime basins below the jigs.
The rolls are huge affairs, several feet in diameter, but hung
on springs, they are sufficiently elastic to permit the hard dia¬
mond to pass uninjured while they are tough and resistant
enough to break up the blue ground containing the occasional
gem stone.
After crushing, washing, sorting and sizing and the catching
of the stones on the vaseline coating, the grease is melted and
the diamonds are carried to a sorting table where the gems are
graded, sorted by color, freedom from flaw, and passed to the
office for lapidary cutting.
Other Occurrences
The discovery in 1908 of diamonds in sands of the Luderitz
Bay coast is truly remarkable because it is so far removed from
known volcanic pipes of the high interior Karroo.
This discovery has been pushed still farther northward up to
Conception Bay and to Port Nolloth as well as to islands off the
shore.
Origin of the Diamond
It would appear to be a simple matter to explain the origin
of diamonds when they are found in situ in basic igneous rocks
in volcanic necks where explosive eruptions have lifted them
within reach of surface mining, but the problem is so complex
that just how and where these brilliant carbon crystallizations
originated and at what depths within the crust is still unknown.
It is not certain that they actually belong to the altered Kim¬
berlite basic rock types where found for they must be consid¬
ered occasional, and not uniformly essential primary rock form¬
ing minerals of these unique blue masses. Surely in one pipe
the diamonds should be similar in crystallization, color, form.
Bagg—The Diamond Mining Industry of South Africa. 87
and abundance^ but this is not the case. Not only is each pipe
different in every way from its adjacent group, but the dia¬
monds in each are so distinct that they can be recognized at
once as occurring in a given pipe blue ground.
Artificial production of the diamond ought to shed light on
its origin, but diamonds of large size and of commercial value
have not yet been formed by laboratory methods. Many sci¬
entists have worked for years upon this problem and several
have actually been able to crystallize tiny diamond crystals in
molten steel, lead, silver and carbon bearing solutions when the
fused mass is subjected to high pressure and sudden cooling.
There is no agreement yet upon just how these peculiar gem
stones, the hardest substance on earth, came into existence in
beautiful, transparent, colorless minerals while the counterpart
carbon is as black and opaque as coal, lusterless and the softest
substance known. Graphite is pure carbon, but it is as differ¬
ent from pure carbon in the diamond as black is from white.
Pressure under exceeding depths is a most important factor,
but just under what conditions and in what state the carbon
occurs is not yet positively known. There is no substance on
earth that can match the diamond in hardness and some other
peculiar physical properties which, with its unrivalled beauty,
make this mineral the queen of precious stones and the most
costly of all gems. , i ! . , i
THE GLOVER BLUFF STRUCTURE, A DISTURBED
AREA IN THE PALEOZOICS OF WISCONSIN
George L. Ekern and F. T. Thwaites
Introduction, Glover Bluff is situated in the northwestern
corner of Marquette County, Wisconsin, about 75 miles north
of Madison and about two and a half miles west of U. S. High¬
way 51 near Liberty Bluff station. The exact location is the
southwest quarter of Section 3, Township 17 North, Range 8
East. That the bluff consists of highly disturbed Paleozoic
strata has been recognized for many years, but no detailed
study was made until 1928 when the problem was assigned to
the senior author for a Bachelor thesis at the University of
Wisconsin. The following account has been rewritten by the
junior author from this thesis.^
Previous investigations, Glover Bluff was not visited by
Irving,^ for, although he mentioned it, he located the hill in the
wrong section both in text and on the atlas sheet. The first
geologist who is known to have reached the bluff was Alden^
who observed the disturbed layers in a portion of the area.
Later W. 0. Hotchkiss, E. 0. Ulrich, Lawrence Martin, E. F.
Bean, the junior author, and other geologists made brief visits
to the locality.
Nomenclature. When the region adjacent to the bluff was
first settled, a man named Glover started to burn lime on a
bluff about two miles south of west from the district here under
discussion. Irving called this other elevation ''Glover and Mer-
riman's Lime Bluff’', but it is now known as Bald Bluff. It is
said that, because the dolomite strata are lower and more
readily accessible in the eastern locality, Glover later moved his
operations. Although the bluff here discussed is called "Lime
1 Ekern, G. L., The geologic structure of Glovers Bluff, Marquette County, Wis¬
consin, Unpublished thesis, copies in libraries of University of Wisconsin and Wis¬
consin Geological and Natural History Survey.
* Irving, R. D., Geology of central Wisconsin : Geology of Wisconsin, vol. 2,
p. 577, 1877.
®Alden, W. C., Quaternary geology of southeastern Wisconsin: U. S. Geol.
Survey, Prof. Paper 106, pp. 207-208, 1918.
90 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
by some of the present inhabitants of the neighborhood,
it seems preferable to commemorate the old settler who first
exploited its resources. His old workings, around which the
ruins of the kilns are still visible, have recently been reopened
for agricultural limestone.
Fig. 1. Isometric block diagram of Glover Bluff, Marquette County, Wis¬
consin. Based on topographic map by G. L. Ekern, 1928. Sections re¬
drawn by F. T. Thwaites, 1929. Contour interval 10 feet. Surface dis¬
tribution of formations is not shown. The east-west section shows three
of the fault blocks of West Hill. North Hill is a continuation of the
middle block of West Hill, but its structure is obscure. East Hill con¬
sists of a faulted syncline which pitches to the west. The east-west fault
possibly cuts through the south part of West Hill.
Topography. In order to permit the mapping of the geologic
structure the bluff was surveyed topographically by the senior
author whose map is here reproduced as an isometric block
Ekern & Thwaites—The Glover Bluff Structure. 91
diagram (fig. 1). Sea level elevations were obtained from the
profile of the Soo Line which runs about two miles east of the
area and thence carried to the southwest corner of Section 3 by
aneroid. From there hand levels were run. Locations were
obtained by pacing and plane table on the assumption that the
subdivisions of the section are the exact dimensions they were
intended to be. The diagram shows that the Bluff has three
distinct summits, here designated as North, West, and East
Hills. Of these, the highest is East Hill, 1167 feet.
Geologic Column of Vicinity of Glover Bluff
Approximate
thickness,
Period Formation Character Feet
Exposed rock formations
Ordovician _ _ _ Lower Magnesian _ Dolomite, gray, cherty___ 200
( Shakopee and
Oneota)
Cambrian _ _ _ Jordan _ _ Sandstone, white and yel¬
low, medium to fine
grained, top quartzitic. 20
Cambrian _ Trempealeau _ _ Dolomite, sandy, yellowish
gray, thin bedded _ 30
Cambrian., _ Mazomanie _ Sandstone, fine grained,
red, yellow, white, dolo-
mitic, glauconitic _ 75
Cambrian _ _ _ Franconia.., - Sandstone, fine to very
fine grained, green, red,
gray, very glauconitic ;
gray, sandy, micaceous
shale at base _ 25
Cambrian...... Dresbach.... _ Sandstone, medium
grained, white, thick
bedded, ripple marked,
round-headed trilobites
at top _ _ _ 100
Concealed rock formations
Cambrian _ _ _ Eau Claire, _ _ _ _ Sandstone, fine to medium
grained, gray, thin bed¬
ded _ 200
Cambrian _ Mt. Simon _ ...... Sandstone, coarse grained,
light gray, heavily bed¬
ded, some shale beds _ 300
Pre-Cambrian. _ _ _ _ _ Igneous and metamorphic
rocks _ _
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General geology. Glover Bluff is situated in the glaciated
portion of the Cambrian sandstone area of central Wisconsin
and was entirely covered by the ice sheet. The terminal
moraine of the Middle Wisconsin drift is about three miles west
of the Bluff. The immediate vicinity of the Bluff is a pitted
outwash plain composed almost wholly of sand. Through this
plain project small areas of excessively sandy recessional
moraine. The bed rock formations of the vicinity are of Cam¬
brian and Ordovician age as shown in the following columnar
section. The three youngest formations are present only on
Glover and Bald Bluffs. These two dolomite outliers are over
40 miles from the main area of Lower Magnesian dolomite.
General structure. The Paleozoic rocks around Glover Bluff
dip gently to the south of east. Aneroid readings corrected by
frequent checks on known points indicate that the base of the
Lower Magnesian on Bald Bluff (Sec. 7, T. 17, R. 8 E.) lies at
about 1180 feet. As this contact is not preserved east of
Glover Bluff, recourse was had to the base of the Franconia
shale. This horizon is now exposed in many pits since it is
used for road surfacing. The base of the shale is at 1020 feet
elevation near the sandstone quarry in SWl^ Sec. 1, T. 17,
R. 8 E., at 1060 feet in SWl^ Sec. 1, T. 17, R. 7 E. six miles to
the west, and at 1090 feet in Pilot Knob (NEl^, Sec. 3, T. 17,
R. 7 E.). No attempt was made to trace the structure of the
surrounding region in detail, but it is clear that neither folding
nor faulting is present outside of the immediate neighborhood
of Glover Bluff.
Structure of Glover Bluff. If the dip is uniform from Bald
Bluff east, we should expect to find the base of the Franconia
shale at elevation 1040 at Glover Bluff and the base of the
Lower Magnesian at elevation about 1160. Instead we find
sandstone, which is either Franconia or Mazomanie, immedi¬
ately southwest of East Hill at elevation 1030. The top of the
Jordan sandstone is found on the south slope of East Hill at
about 1075 and in a highly disturbed state on the southeast
side of West Hill at about 1065. On West Hill Lower Mag¬
nesian dolomite occurs down to less than 1010 feet and dips
steeply down to still lower levels (fig. 1, section). It is obvi¬
ous, therefore, that Glover Bluff is a down-folded or down-
faulted element which extends at least 200 feet below the ex¬
pected level of the formations.
TRANS. WIS. ACAD., VOL. 25
PLATE 1
Fig. 2. Steeply inclined Lower Magnesian dolomite in quarry at west
end of West Hill, Glover Bluff, looking north. Photograph by W. 0.
Hotchkiss, 1919.
Fig. 3. Lower Magnesian dolomite on southeast slope of East Hill,
Glover Bluff, dipping into hill forming synclinal basin. Looking west.
Photograph by F. T. Thwaites, 1928.
Ekem & Thwaites — The Glover Bluff Structure. 93
West Hill. Quarry workings on the west end of West Hill
exposed in 1928 the following section measured by the senior
author and shown in part in figure 2,
Feet
11. Dolomite, layers 6 inches to 2 feet, light gray, fairly hard, some
white chert nodules, conglomerate of chert and dolomite peb¬
bles at bottom _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25
10. Dolomite, layers 3 inches to 1 foot, light gray, hard _ _ 21
9. Dolomite, layers 1 foot to 8 feet, yellowish gray, fairly hard,
some white chert nodules _ _ _ _ 75
8. Dolomite, gray, sandy, soft _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vz
7. Dolomite, 2 foot layers, gray _ _ 4
6. Dolomite, layers 3 inches to 1 foot, gray _ 2
5. Dolomite, layers 1 foot to 4 feet, gray, sandy _ _ _ 11
4. Dolomite, gray, sandy, soft _ _ _ _ _ _ _ %
3. Dolomite, layers 1 foot to 3 feet, gray _ _ _ _ _ _ 10
2. Dolomite, layers 6 inches to 1 foot, gray _ _ _ _ _ _ SVz
1. Dolomite, layers 1 foot to 2 feet, gray, fairly soft, very sandy,
gray ______________ — _________ - - - 30
Total _ _ _ _ _ 18214
The conglomeratic layer, which was noted by Hotchkiss, may
mark the base of the Shakopee formation. No fossils except
some Cryptozoon domes were discovered. The strike of these
beds is about north 20 degrees east and the dip varies from 65
to 80 degrees to the east. In the excavations on the west side
of the hill there is no evidence either of minor faulting or brec-
ciation, but the layers are firm and very difficult to quarry. On
the south side of the hill, however, minor faulting and varia¬
tion in dip and strike are observed. In an old quarry in the
middle of the south side of West Hill the strike is about north
and the dip is 35 degrees to the east. A few rods south from
that point the strike is east and the dip 10 degrees to the north.
These two exposures are probably separated by an east-west
fault. Lower down the hill to the west the beds also dip to the
north and are hence classified as part of the same fault block.
On the southeastern point of this hill dolomite float ceases along
a sharp line and small outcrops east of that line show white
quartzitic sandstone which locally contains quartz pebbles;
some of this sandstone is red and dolomitic. It is possible that
this end of the hill is a fault block which is separated from
both of the other blocks by a fault which trends northeast be¬
tween North and East Hills. (Fig. 1.) On the north end of
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East Hill is an abandoned quarry in much fractured cherty
dolomite. The beds at this point appear to be horizontal. Di¬
rectly south of this quarry, between the active workings on the
west side of the hill and the old quarry where the dip is 35
degrees to the east is an exposure in which the strike is north¬
east. Here a definite line divides vertical beds on the north¬
west from horizontal layers on the southeast. This fact makes
it hard to interpret the horizontal beds as due to a flattening of
the dip toward the east. The interpretation arrived at is that
there are at least four fault blocks in West Hill: (a) the west¬
ern block with layers dipping steeply to the east, (b) a central
block with mainly horizontal beds, (c) an eastern block prob¬
ably with highly inclined strata, and (d) a southern block of
comparatively horizontal beds. The fault between blocks (a)
and (b) is thought to strike about north 10 degrees east. The
mechanics of such faulting are obscure and the possibility must
be recognized that some of the dips may be erroneous on ac¬
count of slump of large masses of rock. Viewed broadly, the
structure is a syncline the center of which has dropped drag¬
ging down adjacent beds. Little could be told of the amount
of displacement as the character of the strata precludes ac¬
curate identification of different beds.
East Hill, Although there are no quarries on East Hill,
natural ledges are abundant and enable a good idea of the struc¬
ture to be obtained. This is a synclinal basin which, on the
south side, is broken by a fault with an east-west strike and
vertical dip. Along this fault, which is very well exposed for
15 to 20 feet of its course, beds on the north side have a strike
north 25 degrees east and a dip of 10 degrees west. These
layers abut on strata with east-west strike and a dip of 45 to
100 degrees to the north. It seems likely that this fault is a
continuation of the southern or east-west fault postulated in
West Hill. If so, it must either die out to the east or turn
north, for good ledges (fig. 3) fail to show it on the eastern
end of East Hill. Instead the strike of the beds changes grad¬
ually as one follows the strata to the nose of the hill so that
there it is north and the dip is west. Thus a westward plunge
of the syncline is clearly demonstrated. The displacement on
the fault is hard to estimate. On the basis of supposed equiva¬
lence of beds on the two sides, the senior author estimated that
the movement was only 8 feet, but this seems impossible in
Ekern & Thwaites—The Glover Bluff Structure. 95
view of the abrupt change of dip and the thickness of beds in¬
volved in the tilted zone south of the fault. Similarity of con¬
ditions to those on West Hill strongly suggest that the structure
is the same and that the downthrow of the fault is on the
north side thus dragging down the formations on the south.
The fault may be of the hinge type with the displacement in¬
creasing toward the west. The fact is that the dip of the
southern fault block is progressively less as one goes east from
the point where the fault is exposed. Exposures are poor on
the north and northwest sides of East Hill. Strong indications
of a dip into the hill were observed at two points. It seems
improbable that these small exposures can be blocks which have
either slid down hill or have been moved by the glacier for the
thin beds are too little fractured to admit of much displacement
except under heavy load. The synclinal structure evidently ex¬
tends south of the outcrops (fig. 1), for the vertical interval
between the exposure of the base of the Lower Magnesian and
the pit in sandstone is too small for the normal thickness of the
formations. Strata in the sandstone pit appear to be hori¬
zontal, but weathering prevented accurate observations. It is
possible that other faults exist than those shown.
North Hill. North Hill had apparently never been visited by
a geologist until the work of the senior author. It is entirely
covered with dolomite float, but the only exposure of strata is
a prospect pit on the northwest side. By doing a little ex¬
cavating the formation was found to be dolomite in two to four
inch beds. The strike appears to be northeast and the dip 33
degrees to the northwest. Ripple marks demonstrate that the
strata have not been overturned. The difference between the
structure of this hill and that of the others casts doubt on the
reliability of this observation. It is possible that weathering
has caused the beds to slump until the apparent dip is opposite
to the true dip. If the observed dip is really correct, North Hill
is the northern limb of an anticline whose crest lies in the val¬
ley between the three hills. This interpretation is given in
figure 1. A southerly dip demands a fault between the two
bluffs which would be an extension of the fault indicated near
the southeastern end of West Hill. A northerly dip demands a
fault or fold north of the hill. Unless considerable rock ex¬
cavation is done on North Hill, its structure will remain ob¬
scure. The senior author concluded that the thin bedded strata
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on North Hill are the same as those found on the other two
hills, but ripple marks were found only at this locality.
Origin of the structure. The only previous explanation of
the structure of Glover Bluff is that of Alden^ who concluded
that glacial shove removed a body of horizontal dolomite strata
from the crest of West Hill and dumped it in a confused mass
at the bottom of the west slope. It is evident that Alden did
not realize the presence of faulting and folding in the other
hills. Any explanation of the structure must recognize both
the extent and complexity of the deformation and the fact that
all the formations are far below their normal position. The
glacial hypothesis seems to the writers to be totally inadequate
to explain these facts; moreover, so great a thickness of dolo¬
mite would not have been present on such a small bluff so far
from the main body of the formation and it could not have been
moved very far without more breaking and mixture with drift
than is present. Deformation of the strata must have taken
place before erosion to anything like present conditions, for
the layers were moved without excessive fracturing. Two
other theories remain to be considered: (a) concealed vulcan-
isim in post-Ordovician time, and (b) renewed movement on a
pre-Cambrian structure.
Volcanic hypothesis. Local disturbed areas surrounded by
almost horizontal strata have been described in southern Ohio,
Kentucky, and northern Tennessee. Bucher and Jillson^ both
regard these as due to concealed volcanic activity. An area of
very local uplift in northwestern Indiana has been described.®
Glover Bluff differs from all of these structures in being de¬
pressed rather than uplifted. It seems to the writers that if
either igneous intrusions or gas explosions had taken place
^ Alden, W. C., Op. cit.
® Bucher, W. H., Cryptovolcanic structure in Ohio of the type of the Steinheim
basin (abstract): Geol. Soc. America, Bull., vol. 32, pp. 74-75, 1921; Jillson,
W. R., An isothrustic hypothesis : Kentucky Geol. Survey, Ser. 6. vol. 30, pp. 61-69,
1927; Pan-Am. Geologist, vol. 40. pp. 251-258, 1923.
®Ward, Li. C., Road materials of Newton County: Indiana, Dept. Geol. and Nat.
Res., Thirtieth Ann. Rept., pp. 214-217, 1906 ; Cumings, E. R., Nomenclature and
description of the geological formations of Indiana : Indiana, Dept. Conservation,
Geol. Survey, Handbook of Indiana geology, p. 449, 1922 ; Chamberlin, R. T., On
the crustal shortening of the Colorado Rockies : Am. Jour. Sci., 5th ser., vol. 6,
p. 217, 1923; Cumings, E. R., and Shrock, R. R., The geology of the Silurian rocks
of northern Indiana: Indiana, Dept. Conservation, Geol. Survey, Pub. 75, p. 137,
1928; Shrock, R. R., and Malott, C. A., Notes on some northwestern Indiana rock
exposures: Indiana Acad. Sci., Proc., vol. 39, in press.
Ekern & Thwaites—The Glover Bluff Structure. 97
three results would be inevitable: (a) excessive brecciation of
the rocks, (b) formation of dikes and mineral veins containing
substances and compounds known to be deposited by hot solu¬
tions, and (c) uplift of formations above their normal position.
None of these features is present at Glover Bluff and thus the
volcanic hypothesis is definitely eliminated.
Fault hypothesis. Faults in the Paleozoics of Wisconsin
have been observed at several points throughout the state and
at some of these the actual plane of movement is exposed.
Ulrich^ described a fault only a few miles west of Glover Bluff,
just south of Pilot Knob. Careful investigation by the writers
using the Franconia shale as a key bed demonstrated that such
a fault does not exist at the locality indicated. Existing in¬
formation does not suggest that the Glover Bluff structure is
related to any known system of extensive faults or folds in the
Paleozoics. Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to suggest that a
small graben or syncline in the concealed pre-Cambrian beneath
Glover Bluff may have suffered renewed movement in post-
Ordovician and pre-Pleistocene time. If such a concealed
structure is present, it might easily make its presence known by
variations from normal magnetic attraction. The senior writer
ran a line across Glover Bluff with an ordinary dip needle
without results. An extensive survey with the Hotchkiss su¬
per-dip needle might yield better results, but time and funds
have been lacking for such work from which economic results
could not be expected.
Conclusion. Pending extensive geophysical work the origin
of the Glover Bluff structure must remain unsettled although
the probability favors the hypothesis of deformation due to
later movements on pre-Cambrian lines of weakness.
Madison, Wis., Dec. 15, 1929.
Ulrich, E. O., Major causes of land and sea oscillations : Washington Acad.
Sci., Jour., vol. 10, p. 75, 1920.
7
THE VARVED CLAY DEPOSIT AT WAUPACA,
WISCONSIN
E. W, Ellsworth and W. L. Wilgus
Abstract. The article presents the results of studies of the
varved clay in an artificial opening near Waupaca, Wisconsin.
The occurrence is described in detail and the mineral com¬
ponents of the clays listed.
Introduction. Varved clays have been recorded in Wiscon¬
sin at five localities: Menomonie (Dunn County), Grantsburg^
(Burnett County), Manitowoc (Manitowoc County) and New
London and Waupaca (Waupaca County). In 1920 the clays
at Manitowoc, New London, and Menomonie were measured
and correlated by Ernst Antevs.^ The varved clay at Wau¬
paca has since been exposed (see fig. 1), and furnishes the
basis for the studies given in this paper. The work was done
in the Sedimentation Laboratory of the University of Wiscon¬
sin and the writers' thanks are due to E. F. Bean, State Geol¬
ogist, W. H. Twenhofel and F. T. Thwaites, for helpful sugges¬
tions, advice and criticism.
Location. The Waupaca varved clay deposit is shown in a
single exposure in the brick yard of Conrad Gmeiner and Sons,
located in the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of
Section 33, Town 22 north. Range 12 east, of the 4th principal
meridian, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It is situated on the
flood plain of the Waupaca River, about IV2 niiles east of the
city of that name.
General geology. The clay seems to be confined to the imme¬
diate vicinity of the pit and has been reached in only a single
neighboring well. It thus appears to be a pocket, perhaps in a
preglacial valley, or a kettle-hole, which has here been exposed
by the postglacial erosion of the Waupaca River. The sides of
^ Berkey, C. P. Laminated interglacial clays of Grantsburg, Wisconsin, with
chronological deductions. Jour. Geology, Vol. 13, pp. 35—44. 1905.
*De Geer, Gerard. On the Solar Curve, as dating the Ice Age, the New York
moraine, and Niagara Falls through the Swedish time scale. Geografiska An-
naler, Vol. 8, pp. 253-283. 1926. Note: The locality at Menomonie, Dunn County,
Wis. was erroneously given as Menominee, Michigan.
100 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
the valley show that before erosion the clay was overlain by the
Red Drift,® of the late Wisconsin Stage of Glaciation. This
fact correlates the clay with the latter part of the Middle Wis¬
consin Stage and makes it a deposit in Early Glacial Lake Osh¬
kosh.^ Two drill holes at the clay pit show that the clay con¬
tinues to a depth of 176 feet, and rests upon solid rock, prob¬
ably pre-Cambrian granite. The geologic section exposed at
the clay pit is as follows :
Feet
4. Till, red, pebbly, formerly v/orked for brick clay _ _ _ _ _ 3
3. Sand, silty, reddish brown to gray, without pebbles — - - — __ 40
2. Clay, varved, summer components gray, winter, red _ _ — 176
1. Bed rock? _ , - - - - - - - —
The exposed clays consist of alternate laminations of blue-
gray and chocolate-brown clay; the red beds being darker and
appearing as black lines in the photograph (fig. 1). The light
gray laminations, which are thicker and more silty than the
red, grade into the overlying red, but are sharply separated
from the underlying red laminations. A gray layer and the
succeeding red layer comprise an individual varve, whose aver¬
age thickness is about three centimeters. The exposed section
is twelve feet thick and contains the ninety-nine varves which
were studied in detail, and a one to tv/o foot zone of highly
folded and contorted varves occurring immediately beneath
the undisturbed varves shown in fig. 1. A section of this zone
of deformation is shown in fig. 2.
Detailed studies of the varved section. By means of three
four-foot metal troughs, the complete twelve-foot section seen
in fig. 1 was taken to the Sedimentation Laboratory of the
University of Wisconsin. After careful measurement of the
varve components the graph given in fig. 3 was constructed.
As the curve of total varve thicknesses is used in Baron De-
8 Alden, W. C. Quaternary Geology of southeastern Wisconsin ; U. S. Geol.
Survey, Prof. Paper 106, pp. 310-324. 1918.
* The name, Glacial Lake Oshkosh, applies to the glacial lake of the Fox and
Wolf valleys, which overflowed through the low divide between the Pox and Wis¬
consin Rivers near Portage, Wisconsin. The name Early Glacial Lake Oshkosh
is applied to the higher and earlier (Middle Wisconsin) level of glacial waters
in the same basin. Upon the suggestion of Alden that the former name Glacial
Lake Jean Nicolet of Upham, be discarded because of confusion with another
glacial lake of similar name, the name Glacial Lake Oshkosh was given by
Thwaites in 1927, on the basis of unpublished geological work on Waupaca and
adjacent counties. Later Glacial Lake Oshkosh is the name applied to the lower
and later (Late Wisconsin) level of glacial waters in the same basin.
TRAIVS. WIS. ACAD., VOL. 25
PLATE 2
Fig. 1. Section of the Waupaca varved clays. Photograph by
F. T. Thwaites.
Fig. 2. This photograph illustrates the type of deformation common
to a one to two foot zone which occurs directly below the twelve-foot sec¬
tion of practically undisturbed varves. (See figure 1). Two overturned,
recumbent folds are shown and irregular foldings produced in the silty
layers, as seen on the smooth face to the left. The darker layers have
yielded less, though they were thinned out in the process of folding. The
deformation in this zone is referred to the grounding of icebergs. Photo¬
graph by F. T. Thwaites.
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Geer’s method of correlation, it was thought advisable to study
the components of this curve, which are here shown graphically.
From a study of this graph the following conclusions were
reached :
(1) Thick winter components generally occur in thick
varves, but thick varves do not necessarily indicate thick winter
components.
(2) Thin winter components are associated with thin varves
and thin varves comprise winter components of a thickness
below average.
(3) The varves are remarkably uniform in thickness, their
total thicknesses range from 1.33 to 6.90 centimeters, with an
average of 3.27 centimeters.
Measurements of the size of the constituent mineral grains
gave results as follows :
(1) There is no direct relation between the thickness of a
varve and the coarseness of its constituent grains.
(2) A high degree of assortment is attained in the varve
components. Just as the summer components are composed
almost entirely of particles falling well within the range of
silt (1/16-1/256 mm.), so the winter components comprise
grains all of which come under the classification of clay
(smaller than 1/256 mm.).
Contemporaneous deformation is obvious in the Waupaca
clays. Folding, faulting and brecciation of a microscopic order
of magnitude are common and appear to be the result of de¬
formation due to settling and sliding of the clay beds. Marked
deformation of a larger order of magnitude is confined to a
more or less well defined horizon (fig. 2) and is believed to be
the result of the grounding of icebergs.
The only evidence of organic remains in the clay are a soli¬
tary spruce needle found in the bottommost varve of the sec¬
tion, and a very small and delicate plant-fibre taken from one of
the summer components. The plant-fibre appears to be part of
a land plant that had been blown into the lake during the sum¬
mer, or swept out upon the ice cover during the fall and winter.
The following facts suggest that the banding is seasonal:
(1) The entire exposed face of the deposit is made up of
alternating layers of red and gray clay.
(2) Each gray layer grades into the overlying red, whereas
the boundary between the red and gray above is a sharp line
Ellsworth & Wilgus—The Varved Cla/g Deposit at Waupaca, 103
in ninety-eight cases out of the ninety-nine red layers included
in the section studied.
(3) Though the average thickness of the gray layers is ap¬
proximately six times that of the red, there is a remarkable
uniformity in the thickness of these layers as shown in fig. 1.
(4) None of the red layers is streaked with fine layers of
gray, whereas the bottom parts of several of the gray layers
contain streaks of red clay.
(5) The red layers reveal no traces of bedding, but appear
to be altogether homogeneous. Fine bedding lines are char¬
acteristic of the gray and close examination reveals many al¬
terations of coarse and fine sediments, as many as forty being
counted in a single gray layer of average thickness.
(6) The red layers are composed almost entirely of particles
falling within the classification of clay and the gray particles
come almost wholly in the range of silt.
(7) Thirty-nine of ninety-nine of the gray layers contain
one or more thin beds of a very fine sand.
(8) Ripple marking occurs only in the gray layers. In ap¬
pearance the red layers resemble flat, thin slabs of hard
chocolate.
(9) There is a lack of microscopic organic matter in both
the gray and red layers, with the exception of the solitary
spruce needle and plant-fibres noted above.
It is apparent that a gray layer and the succeeding red layer
represent a definite unit. The boundaries of this unit, which is
known as a varve, are sharp and well defined; whereas the
components grade into each other. The varve layers not only
possess a unity of their own, but (1) they indicate an apparent
repetition of the same series of conditions controlling their
formations, and (2) they necessitate the condition of a periodic
supply, interrupted by times when the waters of deposition
were practically free of agitation so as to allow the settling of
the finest clay. That the clays are of glacial origin may be
concluded from (1) their lack of organic matter, (2) their
content of rock flour, especially pulverized limestone and (3)
their field relationships. The above summary suggests that
annual changes, due to the cyclic repetition of the summers
and winters, were responsible for the deposition. The required
condition of periodic supply separated by intervals of non¬
supply noted above is satisfied by the influx of sediment during
104
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Fig. 4. De Geer’s correlation of the Waupaca varved clay. The numbers denote years before the final year of the Ice
A^e, as recorded by De Geer. Full size of drawing* was 20 inches.
Ellsworth & Wilgus — The Varved Clay Deposit at Waupaca, 105
the summer months, which were followed by periods of complete
cessation of supply — -when the glacial lake was ice-bound, and
allowed the settling of the finest particles brought in during the
previous summer.
From the present study of the Waupaca clays the evidence
seems to be such as to confirm the opinion that the melting of
the bottom ice during the winter, due to the radiation of the
interior heat of the earth, is either altogether lacking, or is a
negligible factor.
Correlation of the Waupaca varved clays. A varve curve of
the section was made after the method described by Antevs,®
and was sent to Baron Gerhard DeGeer. DeGeer states® in a
letter : 'The varves at Waupaca seem to be normally developed
and fitted very well to the curve from the named localities
(Hackensack, N. J., New London, Wisconsin and Manitowoc,
Wisconsin) ; with respect to several characteristic variations so
well that the connection seems to be certain. Thus the lower¬
most varve of your Waupaca section corresponds to the year
6965 and the uppermost one to the year 6867 before the final
year of the Ice Age.’' DeGeer’s correlation is presented in
figure 4.
The validity of the correlation of the Waupaca deposit with
the varves of both New London and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, is
not supported by the field relations of these deposits. The sec¬
tion at the Waupaca deposit clearly shows the varved clays to
be older than the Red Drift of the Late Wisconsin stage of
glaciation. At both Waupaca and Manitowoc the Red Drift
of Late Wisconsin age overlies the varved clays. A careful
search failed to show any such layer above the New London
clays, which thus appear to be distinctly younger in age, and to
be products of Later (Late Wisconsin) Glacial Lake Oshkosh.
This would show that either the New London, or the Manitowoc
clay has been erroneously correlated with the solar curve of
DeGeer, and hence the age assigned to one of them invalid. In
either case the Waupaca clay cannot be made to correlate with
that of New London. While in figure 4 the matching of the
curve from Manitowoc with that from Waupaca might be taken
as a reasonable correlation, the shifting of the curves to bring
®Antevs, Ernst. Retreat of the last ice sheet in eastern Canada; Geol. Survey,
Canada. Memior 146, pp. 9-12, 1925.
•Letter of March 7, 1929.
106 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
about the New London correlation seems to indicate that this
is the source of error, — ^the New London curve not belonging
there at all. Moreover, the chemical and physical properties
of the New London clays are quite unlike those at Waupaca.
With the two deposits separated by a distance of less than eigh¬
teen miles, and both lying in the drainage basin of the Wolf
River, it would seem reasonable to expect their chemical and
physical properties to be quite similar if they are of the same
age and were deposited in the same body of water.
Chemical and physical properties of the Waupaca varved
clays, A chemical analysis of the Waupaca clays showed the
following :
(1) The iron content of the red clay components (5.49%
FegOg) is higher than that of the summer components (2.34%
FeA)-
(2) The percentage of carbonates (31.65% CaCOg,
CaMgCOg) in the winter components is 1.5 times that in those
of the summer (22.05%).
(3) These differences in chemical composition of the varve
components appear to reflect the fine state of division of the
ferric iron and calcite and dolomite particles carried into the
glacial lake.
The physical properties of the varve components are quite
unlike. The red winter laminations possess a greater plasticity
than do the gray silt ones. Upon drying the red clays become
hard and brittle, whereas the gray silts lack cohesive forces
suflicient to resist crumbling between the fingers. When both
summer and winter components are mixed together, as in the
soft mud process of brick manufacture used at Waupaca, the
resulting clay, when thoroughly dried, is remarkably hard and
firm, and may be handled just as finished brick. The reason
for this is not altogether clear; but it would seem that in some
way it is related both to differences in physical texture and to
chemical composition of the varve layers. In a natural mix¬
ture of both layers there are six times as much gray silt as red
clay, the texture of the latter would seemingly allow for its
constituent grains to fill all the interstices of the coarser silt
and thus act as a binder. Considering this phenomenon from
the chemical side, it will be recalled that the carbonate content
of the two components is quite different, that of the red being
1.5 times that of the gray. This raises the question as to
Ellsworth & Wilgus—The Varved Clay Deposit at Waupaca. 107
whether or not the different components are characterized by
carbonate and other solutions of varying concentration, and
whether or not the intermingling of such solutions in the mix¬
ing of both layers brought about any precipitation, as of cal¬
cium carbonate, for instance, which might act as a natural
cement. The varved clay is saturated with water at the pres-
Fig. 5. Diagram showing percentage by weight of heavy and light
mineralB present in each sample.
ent, and the indications are that it has been this way ever since
deposition. Knowing the red layers to be highly impervious, it
seems reasonable to assume that in the unfolded layers, what¬
ever movement of the groundwater has taken place, has been
mostly along the lamination planes and not from one lamina¬
tion to the next. The condition would be favorable to the de¬
velopment of solutions characteristic of each lamination and
108 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
seemingly explain why, in the natural state, there would be
little intermingling of such solution, and hence no precipitation.
Petrography of Waupaca clay. For the purpose of making
a petrographic study of the varved clays, twenty-six samples,
ranging from two to fourteen grams each, were taken at inter-
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Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States. 143
144 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 1. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. January,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
Precipitation in January is light, except along the shores of the Great
Lakes, and falls mostly in the form of snow. The map shows precipita¬
tion increasing southeastward, toward the area of heavy rainfall, aver¬
aging 4 to 5 inches, in the lower Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Locally
deficient precipitation appears in the northern highlands of Wisconsin
and in the lower Wisconsin river valley.
Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States, 145
Fig. 2. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. February,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
The average precipitation does not differ materially from that of Janu¬
ary. The snowfall is not quite so heavy along the southern shore of
Lake Superior, and the rainfall from the Gulf of Mexico does not reach
quite so far northward into Illinois. The ground usually remains snow-
covered throughout February.
10
146 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Fig. 3. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. March,
32 years, 1897“1928 inclusive.
The average March precipitation is nearly double that of the preceding
month. The snow-cover usually disappears during this month, and rapid
warming up begins. Locally heavier rain appears in west central Wis¬
consin. The precipitation in the form of snow ranges from 5 inches in
the southern part of the region, to 10 inches in northern Wisconsin, and
to 15 inches in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Miller— Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States. 147
Fig. 4. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. April,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
As spring advances, a pronounced increase in precipitation takes place.
Thunderstorms become more frequent. There is now decidedly heavier
precipitation away from the Great Lakes, with a tendency for loops to
follow river valleys, e. g., the Wisconsin. St. Croix, and Minnesota river
valleys. April and November are the months of greatest frequence of
LOWS in the southern part of this region, and these are the cause of the
“three-day rains” often spoken of by the inhabitants.
148 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 5. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. May.
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
The area shown in these maps is at the northern end of a large area
of heavy rainfall extending northward from the Gulf of Mexico between
the Mississippi valley and the Rocky Mountains. Locally heavier rain¬
fall in west-central Wisconsin, northern, and southwestern Iowa, are as¬
sociated with rising ground, while regions of less rainfall in the upper
Peninsula of Michigan, and southeastern Iowa, under 4 inches, are asso¬
ciated with low or level land. The rainfall along the shore of Lake
Michigan has one of its two annual maxima in this month. The other
maximum occurs in September.
Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States. 149
Fig. 6. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. June,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
The maximum rainfall of the year occurs in this month. The fact
that the larger portion of the annual precipitation in this section falls in
the spring and summer months gives it prominence as a cereal producing
region. The rainfall occurs now mostly in thunderstorms. The Great
Lakes are distinctly cooler than the land, and are less favorable to con-
vectional overturning, hence the rainfall is not so great near these large
bodies of water.
150 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 7. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. July,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
July rainfall results largely from local thunderstorms. This is the
month of greatest frequence of thunderstorms in the western part of the
region shown on these maps. The distribution of rainfall in any one
summer may be quite local, leaving areas of drought between well
watered areas. The northern highlands of Wisconsin, and the western
highlands of Iowa and Minnesota have become warmed up by July, and
are the seat of locally heavier rainfall.
Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States, 151
Fig. 8. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. August,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
In August as in July, rainfall is largely the result of thunderstorms.
Although average rainfall is heavy, local droughts are comparatively
frequent. This is the month of greatest frequence of LOWS moving
along the northern border, and the indraft of hot wind into these often
intensifies the injury to vegetation. The northern highlands of Minne¬
sota have become warmed up by August and are the center of an area of
locally heavier rainfall.
162 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 9. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. September,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
The rainfall is appreciably less in the northwestern part of the region,
but is greater around the Great Lakes, which are warmer than the land
from now until spring. LOWS from the Colorado plateau become more
frequent, and with them the 3-day rains begin again.
Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States, 153
Fig. 10. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. October,
32 years, 1897“1928 inclusive.
The precipitation is considerably less than in September, although the
northern highlands of Wisconsin continue to be an area of heavier rain¬
fall. Snow usually falls over the area shown on these maps in October,
the average depth being inappreciable, except in northern Wisconsin and
around Lake Superior where it averages from^ 1 to 2 inches.
154 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
«5»
Fig. 11. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. November,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
The rainfall of November is more uniformly distributed, except in the
upper peninsula of Michigan. The average snowfall ranges from 2
inches in the southern part of the area to 15 inches along the northern
shore of upper Michigan. The snow does not remain on the ground.
Miller — Rainfall Maps of Wisconsin and Adjoining States, 155
Fig. 12. Average rainfall in Wisconsin and adjoining states. December,
32 years, 1897-1928 inclusive.
Although precipitation is frequent the amount is small, except along
the northern shore of the upper peninsula of Michigan, where this month
shows totals nearly equal to the maximum in late spring and early sum¬
mer. The snowfall is about the same as in January, but the snow-cover
often fails to extend to the southern part of the section before the end of
the month.
156 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 13. Topographic map of Wisconsin and adjoining states.
Contour interval 500 feet.
THE PLANTS OF SOME NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN
LAKES
Norman C. Fassett
Notes from the Biological Laboratory of the Wisconsin Geological and
Natural History SurYey and the Department of Botany, University of
Wisconsin. XXXVIII.
During a short period in the summer of 1929 (August 26 to
September 3) a study was made of the plants of seven lakes in
Vilas County and of two in Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was
observed that different types of aquatic plants were preponder¬
ant in different lakes and that the lakes inhabited by each type
had in common certain features of transparency, hydrogen-ion
concentration, etc., but no decision was made concerning which,
if any, of these factors functioned in determining the growth
of each plant type.
The plant types of these lakes may be divided into four
groups, as follows: (1) plants with long flexuous stems and
compound or flexuous leaves, the whole supported by the water
(fig. 1 and table 1) ; (2) plants with the stiff leaves in a close
Pig. 1. Plants with long lax stems and compound or flexuous leaves.
rosette or on short, rigid unbranched stems (fig. 2 and table 2) ;
(3) plants with the vegetative stem horizontal and the leaves
mostly or entirely floating on the surface of the water (fig. 3
and table 3) ; and (4) plants with their bases in the water and
158 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
photosynthetic parts mostly or entirely emersed (fig. 4 and
table 4).
A detailed discussion of each lake follows. In tables 1 to 4
they are arranged in order of hydrogen-ion concentration and
fixed carbon dioxide content and may be taken up in this se¬
quence.^
Forestry Bog. Location, Sect. 8, T. 41 N., R. 7 E. This is
a small pool in a Sphagnum bog near the State House, at Trout
Lake, Vilas County. The plants surrounding the pool, but
usually not actually in the water, are Sphagnum^ spp., Sarra-
cenia purpurea, Monotropa uniflora, Smilacina trifolia, Chio-
genes hispidula, Rynchospora alba, Picea mariana bearing Ar-
ceuthobium pusillum, Eriophorum virginicum, Larix laricina,
Carex oligosperma, C. pauciflora, C, trisperma, Chamaedaphne
calyculata. Ledum groenlandicum, Gaultheria procumbens, Vac-
cinium Oxycoccos, Menyanthes trifoliata, Kalmia polifolia, and
Andromeda glaucophylla.
Fig. 2. Plants with stiff leaves in a close rosette or on short, rigid
unbranched stems.
It will be observed in the tables that the only member of
group 1 occurring in the pool is Utricularia vulgaris, var.
americana, while the only other plants actually in the water
are Nymphozanthus variegatus (Engelm.) Fernald,® N, micro-
phyllus (Pers.) Fernald,^ and Brasenia Schreberi.
^ For the hydrogen ion concentration and the fixed carbon dioxide results, I am
indebted to Dr. E. A. Birge and Mr. C. Juday.
^With the exception of Larix and the Sphagnum species, all of the plants men¬
tioned in this paper are represented by collections in the Herbarium of the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin.
®Rhodora 321 : 183-188. 1919. Vascular plants bearing names found in Gray’s
Manual, ed. 7, are here not followed by authority ; others are cited with authority,
and a reference accompanies the first mention of each in this paper.
Fas sett— Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes, 159
Walker Lake. Location, Sect. 15, T. 39 N., R. 7 E. This is
also a Sphagnum-hordQVQd lake, lying only a few rods from
Clear Lake, which is of a surprisingly different nature. Walker
Lake is about five miles southeast of Woodruff, in northern
Oneida County. While Forestry Bog is in a large sphagnous
area, with many species of plants, the boggy margin of Walker
Lake appears to be the result of a recent invasion. Here we
find Kalmia poUfolia, Andromeda glaucophylla, and Calla palus-
tris spreading over the surface of the water, while Dulichium
arundinaceum is established on the mucky shore. The only
plants in the water are Nymphozanthus variegatus (Engelm.)
Fernald and Isoetes Braunii Dur.^
Fig. 3. Plants with the vegetative stem horizontal and the leaves mostly
or entirely floating on the surface.
Physical data have not yet been obtained for Walker Lake,
but on account of its boggy nature it is placed next to Forestry
Bog in the tables.
Weber Lake. Location, Sect. 28, T. 41 N., R. 7 E. This
lake, and the next two, are characterized by their exceedingly
clear water. In Weber Lake a six-inch white disc is visible at
8.0 m.,® and in Crystal Lake in 10.7 m., while in the last four
lakes in each table the range is only from 2.4 m. to 5.6 m.
Weber Lake is in a sandy pocket in glacial outwash, about
five miles southeast of Trout Lake. There is essentially no
littoral vegetation, the shrubs and small trees for the most part
coming to the water’s edge, but at the east end a lagoon behind
a low ice rampart are a number of plants not found in the lake
itself. The most interesting of these is Bartonia virginica,
* See Pfeiffer, Ann. Mo, Bot. Gard. 9: 156. 1922.
®Birge & Juday, Bull. Nat. Research Council 68: 8. 1929 [as Webb Lake].
160 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
hitherto known in Wisconsin only on the basis of a very old col¬
lection from Marquette County. Other plants of the lagoon are
Gratiola aurea (an eastern plant little known in Wisconsin),
Habenaria clavellata, Juncus brevicaudatus, J. canadensis, Scir-
pus atrovirens, and S. cyperinus, var. pelins.
The aquatic flora is essentially like that of Crystal Lake,
which will be discussed in detail.
Crystal Lake. Location, Sect. 27 and 28, T. 41 N., R. 7 E.
This lake lies a mile east of Weber Lake, which it closely re¬
sembles, and a few rods south of Muskellunge Lake, from which
Fig. 4. Plants with their bases in the water and photosynthetic parts
mostly or entirely emersed.
it is strikingly different. With pure sand bottom and exceed¬
ingly clear water (a 6-inch disc is visible at 8.8-10.7 m.)® it
presents a remarkable appearance, and its flora is as interesting
as its physical nature.
Like Weber Lake, Crystal Lake has essentially no littoral
vegetation except for overhanging alders,*^ and like Weber Lake
it has a shallow lagoon back of an ice-pushed rampart. Here
grow the four species of Scirpus and Juncus as recorded for
Weber Lake, with Juncus effusus, a little Sphagnum, and
Utricularia intermedia, all of which are absent from the lake
itself.
• Birge & Juday, 1. c.
’This describes the appearance in August, 1929. I am told that at this time
the water was two feet above its level of most years, and that ordinarily there is
a narrow sand beach, devoid of vegetation.
Fdssett — Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes. 161
As may be seen in table 1, the flexuous-stemmed plants are
strictly absent.
The bulk of the vegetation is made up of the rosette-plants
and forms with short rigid stems, as listed in table 2 : — Isoetes
Tuacrospora, Eleocharis acicularis (always sterile), Eriocaulon
septangular e With.® (never flowering in Crystal, and but rarely
in Weber and Clear Lakes), Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. &
Meyer,® Myriophyllum tenellum, and Lobelia Dortmanna (oc¬
casionally fruiting with the flowers never having emerged) .
The submerged forms of two normally terrestrial plants are so different
from the typical that they are here described.
Gratiola aurea Muhl., f. pusilla, n. f., plantae submersae; caulibus 5-80
mm. altis, simplicibus, 0.75-2 mm. diametro, 10 mm. aut minus inferioribus
humatis albisque ferrentibus 1-4 verticillos radicum; paribus foliorum
3-10, extendentiorum, eglandulis, linearibus vel lanceolatis, 4 mm. aut
minus longis; floribus fructibusque nullis. Plant submerged; stem 5-30
mm. tall, unbranched, 0.75-2 mm. thick, the lower 10 mm. or less buried,
white, bearing 1-^4 whorls of roots; leaves in 3-10 pairs, widely spreading,
not glandular, linear to lanceolate, 4 mm. or less long; flowers and fruit
none. — In water from 1-4 m. deep. Crystal Lake, Vilas County, Wiscon¬
sin, August 27, 1929, Fassett no. 9090 (type in Herb. U. of Wis.) and
9091; in 1 m. water, Weber Lake, Vilas County, Wisconsin, August 28,
1929, Fassett nos. 9092 and 9093.
This is so unlike the terrestrial fertile form that it would hardly have
been recognized as a mere submerged phase of G. aurea had it not have
been for the presence, in 3 dm. of water in Weber Lake, of a single inter¬
mediate. This was a little more robust than the deep water form, 3.5 cm.
tall and the terminal pairs of leaves had the glands characteristic of this
species. Typical G. aurea, apparently not at all common in Wisconsin,
was found growing very sparingly on the shores of Weber Lake and Trout
Lake.
Juncus pelocarpus Mey., f. submersus, n. f., plantae sterilae, multis
stolonibus; foliis omnibus ad basem, gracilibus, 2-7 cm. longis, septis
plerumque sparsis incompletisque, constantius positis completisque ad
apicem. Plants sterile, freely stolonif erous ; leaves all basal, slender, 2-7
cm. long, the septa mostly scattered and incomplete, more regularly spaced
and complete toward the tip. — Common in 1-4 m. water, Crystal Lake,
Vilas County, Wisconsin, August 27, 1929, Fassett no. 8877 (type in Herb.
U. of Wis.) ; in 5 dm. water, sand bottom. Trout Lake, Vilas County,
Wisconsin, August 30, 1929, Fassett no. 8881; in 1 m. water, Weber Lake,
Vilas County, Wisconsin, August 28, 1929, Fassett no. 8872, and in 6 dm.
water, no. 8873; in water to 1 m., sparse, Clear Lake, Woodruff, Oneida
County, Wisconsin, August 31, 1929, Fassett no. 8879.
^E. articulatum (Huds.) Morong. See Rhodora 11:40-41. 1909.
•See Fernald, Rhodora 19; 10-15. 1917.
11
162 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
This deep water form resembles a small stiff sterile Sagittaria subulata
or Subularia aquatica. The typical Juncus pelocarpus has septations ex¬
tending completely across the leaves and regularly spaced, but some speci¬
mens show toward the base the irregular incomplete septations which are
the rule in f. submersa. The terrestrial form, strangely enough, was not
found at Crystal or Clear Lakes, and was very rare and with few flower¬
ing stems on Weber Lake. It was almost equally rare on Trout Lake,
where the submerged form occurred sparingly.
Of the plants with floating leaves (table 3) only Sparganium
angustifolium is present, in one small patch, not flowering, in
Crystal Lake, and very localized and rarely flowering in Weber
and Clear Lakes. While the hydrogen-ion concentration may
be the factor limiting the distribution of the Potamogeton spe¬
cies, Elodea canadensis, Ceratophyllum, Vallisneria, etc., this
can hardly be the case with the two species of Nymphozanthus,
which are in lakes both more and less acid than the three dear-
water lakes, or the Brasenia, found in the most acid and most
alkaline lakes here considered.
We might expect that, due to the low flxed carbon dioxide
content of the dear-water lakes, plants with emersed photosyn¬
thetic parts (table 4) might be more abundant, but the reverse
is true. These plants are absent.
Equally as strange as the limitation of the types of plants is
the distribution of these plants in Crystal Lake, as indicated in
fig. 5. Since this small body of water was explored in some
detail by the writer, he is prepared to say that the diagram rep¬
resents conditions along almost any radius. The gentle slope
from the shore to a depth of six meters is populated for only
about two-thirds of its distance. This is not a matter of light
deficiency, for one may clearly see from a boat the unpopulated
See St. John, Hhodora 22; 27. 1920.
F ass ett— Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes, 163
area of unbroken bare sand with a very thin, slightly irregular
layer of decayed material. This bare condition persists to a
depth of about fifteen meters, where the mosses Fontinalis flac-
cida and Drepanocladus fluitans, var. suhmersus, f. filiformis^^
occur. They cover the bottom even in the deepest water
(twenty meters) where only 1-4% of the solar radiation pene¬
trates, and are brought up in great masses by the dredge.
The only collections of this moss outside of the deepest water of
Crystal and Weber Lakes was a nearly terrestrial form of the
Drepanocladus in the lagoon of the latter. No dredge hauls
were made in Clear Lake.
Clear Lake. Location, Sections 9, 10, & 15, T. 39 N., R.
7 E. This is about five miles southeast of Woodruff, in north¬
ern Oneida County, and is very close to the Sphagnum-bordered
Walker Lake. The only species these two lakes have in com¬
mon, however, is Dulichium arundinaceum, on the sandy shore
of the former, and the mucky shore of the latter, but hardly ven¬
turing actually into the lakes. The flora of Clear Lake is essen¬
tially the same as that of Crystal Lake and of Weber Lake, but
much more sparse than in either of these.
Muskellunge Lake. Location, Sections 27 & 28, T. 41 N.,
R. 7 E. Lying close to Crystal Lake, this body of water differs
from it in pH, being about neutral, in fixed carbon dioxide con¬
tent, and in transparency a 6-inch white disc being visible at
but 4.2 m.^^ The only part of this lake studied was the bay at
the south end ; here, instead of the clean sand bottom of Crystal
Lake, is a muck bottom, with occasional stony places. Whether
these physical differences are the cause or the result of the
striking differences in the plants is a question which will admit
of some speculation. Neither lake has an outlet at present,
but I am informed by Mr. C. Juday that Muskellunge had an
outlet before the lowering of its level due to the cutting of the
forest. Each lake is about twenty meters deep, but the deeper
parts of Muskellunge were not investigated by the writer.
Muskellunge Lake, at least at the south end where visited by
the writer, has very little shore vegetation. But in the water
“ For determination of these mosses I am indebted to Mr. R. S. Williams of
the New York Botanical Garden and to Mr. L. S. Cheney of Barron, Wisconsin.
Mr. Williams writes concerning the Drepanocladus, “The deepest record we had
for this last before was 85 ft., specimens from Oregon.”
“Readings made in the summer of 1929 by Birge and Juday.
“ Birge & Juday, 1. c.
164 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
is a veritable aquatic jungle (fig. 6). The flexuous-stemmed
plants listed in table 1 are exceedingly abundant, as are the
types with floating leaves listed in table 2. The short-stemmed
and rosette forms of table 2, while representing several spe¬
cies, are rare and localized. And while Sagittaria graminea.
Fig. 6. Distribution of plants in Muskellunge Lake.
as found in Clear Lake, is strictly of the rosetted phylodial
form, S. cuneata Sheldon^"^ in Muskellunge Lake (new to north¬
ern Wisconsin^^) produces long-petioled leaves with floating
hastate blades as well as the phyllodial type, and so should per¬
haps be classified in table 3.
Trout Lake. Locations of regions studied, Sections 6 & 8,
T. 41 N., R. 7 E. Three points on this lake were investigated,
so the list is more complete than for Muskellunge, Wolf, and
Wildcat Lakes (the others are so small that probably few spe¬
cies were overlooked). The shallow water off the sand beach
at State House was dredged for plants ; collections were made
in a small bay on the west side of the lake, just above the Nar¬
rows; and several forms were taken on the shore and in the
shallow water off the sandy beach a mile north of the Narrows,
again on the west side.
The writer was impressed, on seeing Trout Lake, with the
lack of littoral plants, as compared with the lakes of north¬
western Wisconsin. The relic lakes^® in the barrens region
from Bayfield County southwestward to St. Croix Falls have
sandy shores densely populated by strand plants whose seeds
are obviously water-carried, as evidenced by the occurrence of
the annual species in the lines of litter left by the different
wave advances. The sandy beach in front of the State House
appears essentially like that of the more western lakes, but the
only plants are Agrostis hyemalis, Muhlenbergia umhrosa
8. arifoUa Nutt. For synonymy, see Britton & Brown, Ill. PI. ed. 2, 1 : 99.
1913, or Fassett, Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts & Let. 24: 250. 1929.
‘•See Fassett, 1. c., p. 252, fig. 8.
‘•See Aldrich & Fassett, Science 70: 46-46. 1929.
Fassett — Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes. 165
Scribn., var. attenuata (Scribn.) Deam./^ Scutellaria epilobi-
folia Hamilton/® Mentha arvensis, var. glahrata, Ly copus uni-
fiorus, and Solidago graminifolia. A flora more characteristic¬
ally lacustrine was found on the sandy beach a mile above the
Narrows; here was a sparse growth of Sagittaria latifolia, f.
hastata, Ranunculus reptans L., var. ovalis (Bigel.) T. & G./®
Juncus pelocarpus, Eleocharis olivacea (new to Wisconsin),
Carex gynandra Schwein,^® C. cryptolepis Mackenzie, C. com-
osa, Cicuta hulhifera, Campanula aparinoides (new to north-
central Wisconsin^^), Bidens cernua, and Gratiola aurea. In
spite of the presence of the last, G. aurea, f. pusilla was
not found and the plants of table 2 were decidedly rare as com¬
pared with those of table 1.
Wolf Lake. Location of part studied. Sect. 6, T. 42 N.,
R. 7 E. Lying about three miles north of Boulder Junction,
this lake was not thoroughly explored by the writer. A heavy
wind made any viewing of the bottom impossible and the list
of plants is probably very incomplete.
Wildcat Lake. Location of part studied. Sect. 34, T. 43 N.,
R. 7 E. This lake is five miles north of Boulder Junction, and
is the most alkaline of those studied. In spite of this alkalinity,
some of the bays have sphagnous shores, with typical bog
plants. The situation, apparently, is very similar to that re¬
cently described for Mud Lake, Sheboygan County, Michigan.^^
On one of these bogs was found a copious growth of Bidens
connata, var. amhiversa Fassett,^^ which must be rare in Wis¬
consin, for the writer had been unable to find it since its pub¬
lication.
Basal rosettes of Sagittaria graminea, in a large form simu¬
lating S. cuneata, were found to be locally abundant ; otherwise
plants of table 2 were not seen in Wildcat Lake. The others
are well represented, both in number of species and in quanti¬
ties of each species present.
” Grasses of Ind. (Dept, of Conservation Publication 82) 171. 1929.
/Sf. galerioulata Auct. Am., not L. See Fernald, Rhodora 23: 85-86. 1921.
B. Flammula, var. reptans. See Fernald, Rhodora 19: 137. 1917.
“See Mackenzie in Britton & Brown, 111. FI. ed. 2, 1: 425. 1913.
soTorreya 14: 157. 1914.
See Mahony, Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts & Let. 24: 360, fig. 11. 1929.
“Ecology 10: 466. 1929.
“Rhodora 30: 33. 1928.
166 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Table 1. Plants with long lax stems and compound or flexuous leaves
Bog ;
-.akes
Clear
-water lakes
Muskellunge Lake
pH 6.8-8.2
1 fixed CO2 9.0-10.5 p.p.m.
Trout Lake
pH 7.3-82
fixed CO2 17.8 — 20.0 p.p.m.
Wolf Lake
pH 7.5-9.0
fixed CO2 20.6-26.9 p.p.m.
Wildcat Lake
pH 7.6-8.4
1 fixed CO2 26.8-33.5 p.p.m.
Forestry Bog
1 pH 4.8— 5.6
fixed CO2 0.8-3.0 p.p.m.
Walker Lake
Weber Lake
pH 5.8-6.7
fixed CO2 0.9-1.8 p.p.m.
Crystal Lake
pH 5.9-6.7
fixed CO2 1.3-2.8 p.p.m.
Clear Lake
pH 6.6-6.8
fixed CO2 1.8-3.5 p.p.m.
Potamogeton natans _ _
X
X
X
P. amplifolius _ _
X
P. epihydrus _ _ _
X
P. gramineus L., var. gram-
inifolius Fries^ _ _
X
X
X
P. gramineus var spathae¬
formis Robbins^ _ _
X
P. praelongus _
X
P. Richardsonii _ _
X
X
P. pusillus _ _
X
P. dimorphus _ _
X
P. Robbinsii _ _
X
X
P. pectinatus _ _ _
X
X
P. filiformis Pers., var. borealis
(Raf.) St. John^ _
X
Najas flexilis _
X
X
X
Elodea canadensis^ _ _
X
X
Ceratophyllum demersum
X
X
Myriophyllum sp.® _
X
X
M. alternifolium _
X
X
Utricularia vulgaris, var.
americana.
X
Bidens Beckii. _ _
X
X
^ P. heterophyllus Am. Auth., not Schreb. See Fernald, Rhodora 23:189. 1921.
2 P. spathaeformis Tuckerm. See Pernald, 1. c., p. 190.
■’Rhodora 18:134. 1916.
^ Sensu St. John, Rhodora 22:27. 1920.
® Probably M. verticillatum.
Fassett— Plants of Some Northeastern Wisconsin Lakes, 167
Table 2. Plants with stiff leaves in a close rosette or on short, rigid
unhranched stems
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*P. ampMMum Am. Auth., not L. See Rhodora 27: 158. 1925.
168
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Table 4. Plants with bases in the water and photo synthetic parts
mostly or entirely emersed
Bog lakes
Cleai
•-water
lakes
Muskellunge Lake
pH 6.8-8.2
fixed CO2 9.0-10.5 p.p.m.
Trout Lake
pH 7.3-82
fixed CO2 17.8 — 20.0 p.p.m.
Wolf Lake
pH 7.5-9.0
fixed CO2 20.6-26.9 p.p.m.
Wildcat Lake
pH 7.6-8.4
fixed CO2 26.8-33.6 p.p.m.
Forestry Bog
pH 4.8— 5.6
fixed CO2 0.8-3.0 p.p.m.
Walker Lake
Weber Lake
pH 5.8-6.7
fixed CO2 0.9-1, 8 p.p.m.
Crystal Lake
pH 5.9-6.7
fixed CO2 1.3-2.8 p.p.m.
Clear Lake
pH 6.6-6.8
fixed CO2 1.8-3. 5 p.p.m.
Equisetum limosum L.^ _
X
Eleocharis palustris, var. major
X
Scirpus acutus Muhl^. _
X
X
X
Pontederia cordata _ _
X
Decodon verticillatus, var.
laevigatus T. & G.®
X
^ E. fluviatile L. See Rhodora 23:43-47. 1921,
^ S. occidentalis (Wats.) Chase. See Rhodora 23:55. 1920.
» See Rhodora 19: 154-155. 1917.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. IV
LYCOPODIACEAE, SELAGINELLACEAE
Leonard R. Wilson
The maps compiled for this report of the Lycopodiums and
Selaginellas of Wisconsin are from specimens in the herbaria
of the University of Wisconsin, of the Milwaukee Public Mu¬
seum, of Mrs. J. H. Somerville, Superior, Wis., of Iowa State
College, and of L. R. Wilson, Superior, Wis.
KEY TO THE LYCOPODIUMS OF WISCONSIN
A, Sporophylls not different from foliage leaves
B. Leaves broadest above middle, distinctly serrate;
stems procumbent L. lucidulum
B, Leaves linear, or lanee-attennate, entire or slightly
serrate; stems erect L. lucidulum,
var. porophilum
A. Sporophylls different from foliage leaves
C. Sporophylls somewhat herbaceous _ _ _ L. inundatum
C. Sporophylls scale-like
D, Strobile sessile
E, Plant tree-like; rootstock deep
F. General shape of plant oblong-ovate;
leaves about 1 mm. broad, spreading L. obscurum
F. General shape of plant flabelliform;
leaves less than 1 mm. broad, incurved L. obscurum,
var. dendroideum
E, Plant not tree-like; rootstock superficial
G. Leaves spreading
Leaves lanceolate to oblanceolate,
distinctly serrate, thin L. annotinum
H. Leaves linear, or lance-attenuate,
entire, or slightly serrate, thickish L. annotinum,
var. acrifolium
G, Leaves appressed, linear, or lance-at¬
tenuate, entire, thick L. annotinum,
var. pungem
170 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
D. Strobile peduncled
I. Leaves linear-awl-shaped
J. Strobiles more than one
K. Strobiles two
L. Strobiles sessile on peduncle ____ L. elavatum
L. Strobiles on short secondary-
peduncles _ L. elavatum,
var. laurentianum
K. Strobiles three or more _ L. elavatum,
var. subremotum
J. Strobile one; peduncle 3-9 cm. long _ _ L. elavatum.
var. megastaehyon
I. Leaves scale-like
M. Branches with constrictions
N. Branches 1-1.5 mm. wide, rather
squarish; ventral median leaf
reaching, or overlapping, the leaf
above; plant glaucous _ _
N. Branches 1-3 mm. wide, flattened;
ventral median leaves much short¬
ened, on the older branches each
not reaching the one above
0. Rootstock superfleial; strobiles
sessile on peduncle _
O. Rootstock deep ; strobiles on
short secondary peduncles;
branches spreading _ _ _ _
M. Branches without constrictions, fan¬
shaped, 1-3.5 mm. wide; ventral me¬
dian leaves much reduced _
L. tristaehyum
L. complanatum
L, eomplanatum,
var. elongatum
L. flabelliforme
Lycopodium lucidulum Michx. (Fig. 1.) This is the most
widely distributed species occurring in Wisconsin. Its occur¬
rence is largely northern, but it is found not infrequently in
rich woods of the southern counties, where it was probably
much more abundant before the forests were cut.
L. LUCIDULUM, var. POROPHILUM (L. and U.) Clute. (Fig. 2.)
With one exception var. porophilum is known in this state from
only the unglaciated region and its border. The typical habitat
is upon sandstone cliffs, cold canyons, and exposed places, such
as one finds in the Dells of the Wisconsin River. The excep¬
tion to this range is a specimen collected by R. H. Denniston
on August 16, 1916, near Hayward, Sawyer County. The
specimen is intermediate between the type and the variety.
The sandy conditions near Hayward may be such as to produce
Wilson— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. IV. 171
L, laciduldm X* laoidulum var*
porophilam
L. annotinmn va3»«
acrifollura
Xk atiiiotinum rar.
pungana
172 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
this form, but more study is necessary to account for such a
unique distribution. Fig. 2 also shows the unglaciated region.
L. iNUNDATUM L. (Fig. 3). Generally restricted to the
sandy lake shores of the northern counties, with the excep¬
tion of one collection near Arena, Iowa County, by J. J. Davis
on Sept. 1, 1922. The work with this species by W. T. Mc¬
Laughlin in Burnett and Washburn Counties, during the sum¬
mer of 1929, shows the results of intensive collecting, such as
is necessary in all of the state to reveal the history of the Wis¬
consin vegetation. (See Aldrich & Fassett, Botanical and
Geological Evidence for an Ancient Lake. Science 70 : 1802.
1929.)
L. ANNOTINUM L. ; Fernald, Rhodora 17 : 124. 1915. (Fig. 4) .
Northern; growing generally in rocky soil. Fernald has rec¬
ognized three varieties, two of which have been found in Wis¬
consin.
L. ANNOTINUM, var. ACRIFOLIUM Fernald, 1. c. (Fig. 5).
Strictly northern, and probably limited to cold woods and edges
of Sphagnum bogs.
L. ANNOTINUM, var. PUNGENS Desv. ; Fernald, 1. c. (Fig. 6).
Strictly northern and confined generally to the edges and higher
parts of Sphagnum bogs.
L. OBSCURUM L. ; Fernald, Rhodora 23 : 272. 1921. (Fig. 7) .
Northern. More common than the variety, for which most ma¬
terial is mistaken, but the coarseness and spreading character
of the leaves in the type, contrasted with the fineness and in¬
curved character of the leaves in the variety, at once distin¬
guishes the two.
L. OBSCURUM, var. dendroideum (Michx.) D. C. Eaton.; Fer¬
nald, 1. c. (Fig. 8). Generally northern. The habitat is ap¬
parently sandy soil, which is drier than that in which the type
is found.
L. CLAVATUM L. ; Victorin, Contrib. du Lab. de Bot. de kUniv.
de Montreal. No. 3: 102. 1925. (Fig. 9). More common in
the northern counties, and found generally in rocky woods.
Three varieties have been recognized by Victorin.
L. CLAVATUM, var. LAURENTIANUM Victorin, 1. c., 23. (Fig.
10) . Known only from the northern part of the state.
L. CLAVATUM, var. SUBREMOTUM Victorin, 1. c., 24. (Fig.
11) . Collected several times at Solon Springs, Douglas County.
Wilson — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. IV. 173
L. obscaram
I.elaTatiUD yar*
Bobromotom
L. obscuram yar.
L* olayatum yar«
laarentianum
L. olayatum yar.
megastaobyoQ
174 Wiseonsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
L* complanatum
I, complanatum Tar.
elongatum
X. flabelliform©
.B« apoda
Wilson- — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin, IV, 175
L. CLAVATUM, var. MEGASTACHYON Femald & Bissell, Rho-
doral2:53. 1910. (Fig. 12). Strictly northern.
L. TRISTACHYUM Pursh. (Fig. 13). Most common north¬
ward, in rather dry sandy woodland.
L. COMPLANATUM L. ; Victorin 1. c. (Fig. 14). The speci¬
mens belonging to the complanatum group, that were examined,
showed such great variation that the question of ecological
varieties appears to be important. How much the type of soil
affects the depth of the rootstock and the other factors affecting
the branch growth is a problem that needs further study. Of
the specimens examined, only four fitted the description of the
type.
L. COMPLANATUM, var. ELONGATUM Victorin, 1. c. (Fig. 15).
Most of the Wisconsin material appears to be the var. elong-
atum. It occurs in rather dry woodland and is more common
in the northern counties.
L. FLABELLIFORME (Femald) Blanchard, Rhodora 13:168.
1911. (Fig. 16). Northern and eastern part of the state,
with southern stations in the Dells of the Wisconsin River, and
one near Cross Plains, Dane County.
SELAGINELLACEAE
Selaginella SELAG NOiDES (L.) Link. Reported from Sister
Bay, Door County, on the basis of a specimen in the Field
Museum.^
S. rupestris (L.) Spring. (Fig. 17). Generally distrib¬
uted in the state, on dry sand or exposed rocks.
S. APOD A (L.) Femald, Rhodora 17:68. 1915. S, apus
Spring. (Fig. 18). Restricted to the southeastern counties;
occurring along river courses and in damp places.
igteil & Fuller, Am. Pern Journ. 19: 1. 1929.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. V ■
CONIFERALES
Norman C. Fassett
More than thirty years ago field data were collected on the
distribution of the trees of Wisconsin. Mr. L. S. Cheney, then
of the Department of Botany of the University of Wisconsin,
now of Barron, Wisconsin, travelled in the years 1897 and
1898 through the state, noting on maps the trees of each re¬
gion. Descriptions of the species were written, and ranges and
uses were discussed; unfortunately this exhaustive treatment
of the trees of Wisconsin has never been published. With Mr.
Cheney^s permission I am making available some of the maps.
On the pages following, the ranges indicated by small dots are
those determined by Mr. Cheney; the large dots and other sym¬
bols represent specimens in the herbaria of the University of
Wisconsin, of Iowa State College, and of the Milwaukee Public
Museum.
Taxaceae — Yew Family
Taxus
T. CANADENSIS Marsh. American Yew. (Fig. 1). Abun¬
dant northward ; local, mostly on shaded cliffs, southward.
PINACEAE — Pine Family
1. PiNUS
P. Strobus L. White Pine. (Fig. 2). Mostly northward;
southward on rocky bluffs and talus slopes. The cross repre¬
sents a small grove in Vernon County, not noted by Cheney.
P. Banksiana Lamb. Jack Pine. (Fig. 3). To a great ex¬
tent this pine follows the St. Croixian Sandstone, as do many
members of the Ericaceae.^ A large area of Jack pine also
^See Fassett, Trans. Wl». Acad. Scl., Arts and Let. 34: 257-208. 1929.
12
178 Wisconsin Academy of -Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fassett— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin, V, 179
occurs on the glacial drift of parts of Iron, Vilas, Oneida, and
Lincoln Counties.
P. RESINOSA Ait. Red Pine; Norway Pine. (Fig. 4),
Abundant northward ; more rare on sandy or rocky soil south¬
ward.
2. Larix
L. LARICINA (DuRoi) Koch. Larch; Tamarack. (Fig. 5).
Generally distributed in bogs ; rare southwestward, where these
bogs are rare (see Fassett, L c.). In this southwestern un¬
glaciated area is shown a small patch of tamarack in the valley
of the Pine River in Richland County, and Dr. L. H. Pammel
writes me of a tamarack swamp, now destroyed, near La
Crosse, where he has found cranberry, blueberry, leatherleaf,
and wintergreen, none of which were reported by me in the
paper referred to above, on the heaths of Wisconsin.
3. PiCEA
P. CANADENSIS (Mill.) BSP. White Spruce. (Fig. 6).
Northern. Cheney's manuscript says, “"'The white spruce in
Wisconsin selects a rich soil near streams, lakes, and borders
of swamps, or in deep moist forests, where it grows with the
balsam, the birch, and many other deciduous trees.”
P. MARIANA (Mill.) BSP. Black Spruce. (Fig. 7). North¬
ern, in bogs.
4. Abies
A. BALSAMEA (L.) Mill., including var. macrocarpa Kent.
Balsam Fir. (Fig. 8). Mostly northward, extending south
along the Wisconsin River to the Dells. Often planted south¬
ward.
5. Tsuga
T. CANADENSIS (L.) Carr. Hemlock. (Fig, 9). Cheney
writes :
In Wisconsin, the limits of distribution of this tree are rather well
marked; it occurs in a very narrow strip along the St. Louis River and
Lake Superior in Douglas and Bayfield Counties, extending south in the
latter along the western shore of Chequamegon Bay and the eastern border
of the county well toward the south end, where it unites with the great
hemlock area of the state. This area includes the western portion of
180 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
+ Juniperus horlzontali^s
Fmsett— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. V. 181
Ashland County* the eastern half of Sawyer, the northern two-thirds of
Chippewa, all of Taylor and the northeastern third of Clark County. To
the south, it extends over the northern third of Wood, northwestern
Portage, along the south line of Marathon, into a little of the northeast
corner of Waupaca, the northern third of Outagamie, and the northern
half of Brown and Kewaunee Counties. Locally the tree is distributed
southward along the Wisconsin River and some of its tributaries through
Adams, Juneau, Columbia, Sauk and Iowa Counties. In the extreme
southeastern corner of the last-named county a small grove of this tree
covers the face of a rocky blufl along the Pecatonica River; in former
years, according to statements of the old settlers, considerable merchant¬
able hemlock was cut from the bluffs along the upper course of this small
stream, almost to its source near the present towns of Blue Mounds and
Ridgeway, in Dane and Iowa Counties.
Collections from Ontario, Vernon Co. (in herb. Univ. of
Minn.) and Iowa Co. opposite Lone Rock (in herb. Univ. of
Wis.) are shown by large dots.
6. Thuja
T. OCCIDENTALIS L. Arbor Vitae; White Cedar. (Fig. 10).
Northern; southward along the Lake Michigan shore.
7. JUNIPERUS
J. COMMUNIS L. The aborescent form of this species is rare
in Wisconsin; Mr. Cheney writes me he has not observed it.
It was collected at Prescott, Pierce County, by Dr. J. J. Davis
in 1914, and by the writer in 1927. The single tree observed
by me was about 4 m. tall, with a trunk 15 cm. in diameter;
it was on a sandstone bluff about a mile from Lake St. Croix,
in Section 2, T. 26 N., R. 19 W.
J. COMMUNIS, var. depressa Pursh. Common Juniper. (Fig.
11) . Like Alisma Pkmtago-aquatica^ and Sparganium eurycar-
pum (see page 185 of this volume) the juniper seems to avoid
the granitic rocks of north-central Wisconsin. As to whether
it is actually the underlying rock, or some other factor, which
controls this type of distribution, the writer is not ready to
state any theory.
Certain shrubs common on the bluffs of northwestern Dane
County and adjacent Sauk and Columbia Counties have short,
broad, curved needles and seem to approach var. montana Ait.
*Bee Fassett, L c., page 253, fig. Ifl.
182 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
J. HORIZONTALIS Moench. Creeping Juniper. (Fig. 12,
crosses). Lake Michigan shores; rarely inland, usually on
crumbling sandstone bluffs. Russel says,® ‘‘Reported by
T, Bruhin. Not now found in [Milwaukee] county.’’
J. VIRGINIANA L. Red Cedar. (Fig. 12, small dots).
Cheney says of this :
Within Wisconsin this plant is a small tree or frequently a shrub. It
occurs most abundantly along the Mississippi River; it is also found in all
counties along the St. Croix River through Polk County. It is native in
La Fayette, Iowa, Green, Dane, Sauk, Columbia, Adams, Rock, Jefferson,
Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Vilas, and Forest
Counties. It occurs spontaneously in many other parts of the state, but
in these localities it has probably grown from seed scattered from culti¬
vated trees. Such stations were observed in Crawford, Vernon, Richland,
Columbia, Dodge, Fond du Lac, and Winnebago Counties.
Mr. J. S. Bordner, of the Wisconsin Economic Land Survey,
who in 1929 surveyed Vilas County, states that he saw no red
cedar in that region.
3 Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 170. 1907.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. VI
PANDANALES
Norman C. Fassett
The following discussions are based upon specimens in the
herbaria of the University of Wisconsin and of the Milwaukee
Public Museum.^
TYPHACEAE
Typha latifolia L. General throughout the state, but not
as common as might be expected in the Mississippi and Lower
Wisconsin River bottoms, although occasional colonies may be
found in these regions.
T. ANGUSTIFOLIA L. Collected only at Lake Wingra, Madi¬
son, although the writer is reasonably sure that stands seen in
the marshes in the eastern part of the city, between Lakes Men-
dota and Monona, belong to this species. Collected as follows :
Dane Co.; near Lake Wingra, Madison, July 4, 1922, R. H.
Denniston; Lake Wingra marsh, July 7, and August 3, 1929,
N. T. Bobb,
T. ANGUSTIFOLIA, var. ELONGATA (Dudley) Wiegand, Rhodora
26 : 1. 1924. Dane Co. ; Lake Wingra marsh, Madison, Au¬
gust 3, 1929, N. T, Bobb.
During the summer of 1929, Professor N. T. Bobb, of North¬
land College, made an intensive study of the cattails of Lake
Wingra marsh. He writes, in part,^
1 It is fortunate that the two largest herbaria of Wisconsin duplicate to a very-
limited degree the regions covered. The University collections, for example, are
the more complete northwestward, while the northeast quarter of the state is
better represented in the Museum collections. The writer wishes here to record
his indebtedness to Dr. H. H. Smith, Curator, and Mr. A. M. Fuller, Assistant
Curator, of the Herbarium of the Milwaukee Public Museum, for their courtesies
in making available to him, when in Milwaukee, the excellent facilities of the
Museum, and for their many loans of herbarium specimens.
* “Typha of the Lake Wingra marsh.” Unpublished.
184 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Another intermediate found growing in the Wingra marsh along with
angustifolia, but diifering from it in having a pistillate spike of darker
color and slightly smaller diameter in proportion to its length, seems to
check exactly with the herbarium specimen Typha angustifolia var.
Calumetensis Peattie from Lake County Indiana t August 16, 1927, Fassett
no. 5633, from the type station of var. Calumetensis,^ according to Mr.
F. J. Macbride].
There are also several clumps of intermediates growing in the Wingra
marsh which are 6 or more feet tall; have the long spike and narrow
leaves of elongata, but the spike is smaller in diameter, darker in color,
and has a tendency to develop few or no bractlets.
After numerous observations of Typha in the Wingra marsh, both in
the field and more careful examination in the laboratory and from refer¬
ences to the intermediate types, the writer strongly suspects that some if
not all of the intermediate types growing in the Lake Wingra marsh have
had their origin by crosses between the species, latifolia and angustifolia.
The species and varieties of Typha, as they occur in Wiscon¬
sin, may be recognized, ivhen typical, as follows:'^
a. Stem stout; leaves flat; staminate and pistillate portions
of spike usually contiguous ; pistillate portion of spike
dark brown with black markings; pistillate flowers
without bractlets; stigma spatulate; fruit furrowed;
pollen grains in 4’s _ _ _ T, latifolia
a. Stem slender; leaves convex on the back; staminate and
pistillate portions of the spike usually distant, the
interval being at least 5 mm.; pistillate portion of
spike light or cinnamon brown without black mark¬
ings; pistillate flowers with bractlets; stigma fili¬
form; fruit not furrowed; pollen grains single b
h. Plant 1-1.5 m. tall; lower leaves 3-7 mm. wide; pis¬
tillate portion of spike 8-13 cm. long and 10-17
mm. thick in fruit _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T. angustifolia
b. Plant 2-3.5 m. tall; lower leaves 9-15 mm. wide;
pistillate portion of spike 15-25 (30) cm. long and
20-23 mm. thick in fruit - - - - T. angustifolia,
var. elongata
“Peattie, Am. Midland Nat. 10: 129. 1926. Other collections apparently match¬
ing this variety, which in my opinion is no more than an extreme phase of
T. angustifolia, standing out clearly from the individuals which are intermediate
with T. latifolia, are : Marpath, Ontario, Geo. L. Fisher; Woolwich, Maine, Fassett
no. 3791 ; Damariscotta Mills, Maine, Fassett no. 2470 — N. C. P.
♦Key largely compiled from Bobb, 1. c., and Wiegand, 1. c.
Fassett— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin, VL 185
186 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
SPARGANIACEAE
Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm. (Fig. 1) . The distribu¬
tion of this species appears to be similar to that of Alisma
Plantago-aquatica^ in that it is absent from the granites of
northern Wisconsin, although it is found to the north, east,
south, and west of this mass. An apparent exception, in this
case, occurs in the presence, in the Milwaukee Public Museum,
of a specimen collected at Merrill, June 25, 1915, Charles Goessl
no. 760. This is shown on the map by a dot in southern Lin¬
coln County. I am told by Mr. H. R. Aldrich, Assistant State
Geologist, that the Wisconsin River at this point cuts through
some basic igneous rocks, which may explain the occurrence of
the Sparganium. It should, therefore, be watched for on other
outcrops of this kind throughout north-central Wisconsin.
This is the only representative of the genus occurring com¬
monly along the Mississippi River, whose water is probably
too high in lime content for the other species.
S. ANDROCLADUM (Engelm.) Morong; Fernald, Rhodora
24 : 27. 1922. S. simplex, var. androcladum Engelm. ; not
S. americanum, var. androcladum Fernald & Fames ; Robinson
& Fernald in Gray’s Manual, ed. 7. S. lucidum Fernald &
Fames; Robinson & Fernald, 1. c. (Fig. 5, crosses). Fernald,
1. c., says of the range of this species:
''Abundant in eastern Missouri and adjacent Illinois, it is
apparently unknown or at least unrecorded in the region be¬
tween the Mississippi Valley and eastern Pennsylvania.”
The discovery of this plant in Wisconsin is, then, an exten¬
sion of range from southern Illinois. Collections are as fol¬
lows : Columbia Co. : wet shore of pool at foot of Gibraltar Rock,
Lodi, Fassett no. 2889 (identified by Mr. C. A. Weatherby).
Dane Co. : muck shore of Turtle Lake, Albion, Fassett no. 7582.
Both of these stations are on kettle-hole lakes toward the mar¬
gin of the terminal moraine of the Green Bay lobe of the Wis¬
consin ice sheet.
S. AMERICANUM Nutt. (Fig. 2). Mostly northward and
westward.
S. CHLOROCARPUM Rydb. ; Fernald, Rhodora 24:29. 1922.
S. diversifolium Fernald & Fames; Robinson & Fernald in
'See Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts & Let. 24: 253, map 16. 1929.
Fassett — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. VI. 187
Gray’s Manual, ed. 7, probably not of Graebner. (Fig. 3,
crosses). Scattered, and freely passing into the more dwarf
var. ACAULE (Beeby) Fernald 1. c. {S. diver si folium, var. acaule
Fernald & Fames). (Fig. 3, dots).
S. ANGUSTIFOLIUM Michx. (Fig. 4). In northern Wiscon¬
sin. An immature specimen, apparently of this species, is from
Dunkirk, Dane County, S. H. Watson. This is from the her¬
barium of T. J. Hale, and is labelled in Hale’s hand ; Hale was
active just before the Civil War, and we have no recent collec¬
tion to substantiate this old doubtful record of S. angustifolium
from southern Wisconsin.
S. FLUCTUANS (Morong) Robinson. (Fig. 5, dots) . In lakes
of northern Wisconsin.
S. MINIMUM Fr, (Fig. 6). In boggy places northward. A
sheet labelled ''St. Croix” by T. J. Hale may be from some¬
where along the St. Croix River.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. VII
BETULACEAE
Norman C. Fassett
The maps representing the distribution of the members of
this family in Wisconsin were compiled from two sources. The
small-dotted maps illustrating the ranges of the trees are from
those of Mr. L. S. Cheney (see page 177) ; the large dots and
other symbols represent localities taken from sheets in the
herbaria of the University of Wisconsin and of the Milwaukee
Public Museum.
1. CORYLUS
C. AMERICANA Walt. Hazelnut. (Fig. 1). General.
C. CORNUTA Marsh. Arb. Am. 37. 1785. C, rostrata Ait.
Hort. Kew. 3:364. 1789. Beaked Hazelnut. (Fig. 2).
Mostly northward, coming south along the Lake Michigan shore
and in such cool localities as the Dells of the Wisconsin River
and Baraboo Bluffs. This is recorded from Milwaukee County
as being not so common as C, americana.^ In his flora of Ra¬
cine and Kenosha Counties, Wadmond^ says, “Rare or extinct;
leaves of this hazel in Dr, Davis herbarium infected by a Sep-
toria, collected near Horlicksville, Racine County. Station now
destroyed. Not seen elsewhere.”
2. OSTRYA
0. VIRGINIANA (Mill.) K. Koch. Ironwood; Hop Hornbeam.
(Fig. 3). Cheney records this from every county except Buf¬
falo, Trempealeau, and Jackson. Three localities from which
he did not record the presence of this tree are now represented
by herbarium specimens; each is indicated on the map by a
cross.
» Russel, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 186. 1907.
* Trans. Wis. Acad. Sc!., Arts and Let. 16: 826, 827. 1909.
190 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
0. VIRGINIANA, var. GLANDULOSA (Spach) Sarg. Bot. Gaz.
67 : 216. 1919. This variation v^ith stalked glands on the
branchlets, etc., is stated by Rehder to be the northern form of
the species.^ It is scattered throughout Wisconsin, being about
as common as the glandless type,
3. Carpinus
C. CAROLINIANA Walt. Blue Beech; Hornbeam; Ironwood.
(Fig. 4). Common northeastward; mostly along the rivers
southwestward. Two localities not shown by Cheney, but now
represented by herbarium specimens, are indicated by crosses.
3. Betula
The members of this genus occurring in Wisconsin may be
distinguished as follows:
a. Scales of fruiting catkins persistent; leaves with im¬
pressed veins b
h. Leaf-blades obliquely subcordate at base, more or
less tapering at tip c
c. Scales of fruiting catkins less than 8 mm, long. B. lutea
e. Scales of fruiting catkins 8 mm. or more long B. lutea,
var. macrolepis
b. Leaf-blades at base tapering to the petiole, acute
at tip _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ B. nigra
a. Scales of the fruiting catkins deciduous; veins not im¬
pressed d
d. Trees; leaf -blades 6-10 cm. long e
e. Leaf -blades rounded to subcuneate at base — . B, papyrifera
e. Leaf -blades cordate at base _ _ _ _ B. papyrifera,
var. cordifolia
d. Shrubs; leaf -blades 2-6 cm. long /
/. Leaves with 5-7 pairs of veins; fruiting catkins
short-stalked or sessile; scales 6.5-7 mm.
long, ciliate _ _ — _ — B. Purpusii
f. Leaves with 3-6 pairs of veins : fruiting catkins
distinctly stalked; scales 3-6.6 mm. long
g. Leaf -blades rhombic-ovate to abovate; fruit¬
ing catkins 2-3 cm. long; scales 4-5.5
mm. long; wing as wide as or wider than
the nutlet B.Sandbergii
g. Leaf -blades obovate to oval; fruiting catkins
1-2.8 cm. long; scales 3-3.5 mm. long;
wing narrower than the nutlet __________ B. pumila,
var. glandulifera
*Man. Cult. Trees and Shrubs 151. 1927.
Fassett— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. VII. 191
• B. lut©a, var. macrolepis
192 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
B. LUTEA Michx. f. Yellow Birch. (Fig. 5, small dots, and
crosses). Mostly northward. Certain localities, not accred¬
ited with this species by Cheney, but where collections have
been made, are shown by crosses.
B. LUTEA, var. macrolepis Fernald, Rhodora 24 : 170. 1922.
(Fig. 5, large dots). Occasional.
Certain individuals of yellow birch have close dark brown
bark simulating that of B. lenta, and may have given rise to
reports of black birch in Wisconsin. The latter species has not
been found native in the state.
B. NIGRA L. Red Birch; River Birch. (Fig. 6). Mostly
confined to river-bottoms southward and westward. It has
also been collected at Devils Lake (indicated by a cross) which
is without outlet and not connected with any river system. At
Madison (shown by cross) there are a few trees on the western
shore of Lake Monona, which are probably escapes from culti¬
vation, since this locality is not shown by Cheney, nor is it
listed by Cheney and True in their Flora of Madison and
Vicinity.
B. PAPYRIFERA Marsh. B. alba, var. papyrifera Spach.
White Birch. (Fig. 7, small dots). Abundant northward;
rare, usually on exposed bluffs, southward.
B. PAPYRIFERA, var. CORDIFOLIA (Regel) Fernald. (Fig. 7,
large dots). This variety appears to avoid the Archean rocks
of north-central Wisconsin, as does Juniperus communis, var.
depressa (see map 11, page 180). This apparent fact should
be regarded as questionable until it can be further checked in
the field, since Cheney did not differentiate this variety.
B. PURPUSil Schneider, Ill. Handb. d. Laubholzk. 1 : 102.
1904. B, lutea X pumila var. glandulifera Rosendahl, Minn.
Bot. Stud. 4:456. 1916; Rhodora 30 : 125. 1928. (Fig. 8).
Milwaukee, collected by I. A. Lapham (see Rhodora 31 : 51.
1929).
B. Sandbergii Britton, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 31: 166. 1904;
Rosendahl, Rhodora, 1. c. B, papyrifera X pumila var. glanduli¬
fera Minn. Bot. Stud. 4:454. 1916. (Fig. 9). Scattered.
B. PUMILA L., var. glandulifera Regel; Rosendahl, Minn.
Bot. Stud. 4: 458. 1916; Rhodora 30: 125-129. 1928. Swamp
Birch. (Fig. 10) . According to Rosendahl, typical B, pumila.
* Trans. Wis, Acad. Sci., Arts and Let. 9: 98. 1893.
Fassett- — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. VII. 193
cordlfolia
var. glandulosa
+ A. crispa, var. mollis
13
194 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
a plant with the young branchlets densely pubescent, is un¬
known in this region. On the other hand, Wadmond (1. c.)
records B. pumila from Wind Lake, Racine County, and says of
var. glandulifera, ‘This variety in its long pubescence, sug¬
gests B. pumila ; but mixed with the pubescence, and sometimes
upon the leaves, are the characteristic glandular atoms of
B. glandulosa.^' The only middle western material which ap¬
pears to me to match the typical B, pumila of the east is a sheet
from Millers, Indiana, June 11, 1898, H. C. Powell.
5. Alnus
A. INCANA (L.) Moench. Speckled Alder. (Fig. 11). Com¬
mon northward ; rare southward.
A. CRISPA (Ait.) Pursh. A. viridis (Chaix.) DC., var. crispa
(Ait.) House, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. 254: 271. 1924. Green
Alder. (Fig. 12, squares). Northern. Grading into the next.
A. CRISPA, var. MOLLIS Fernald, Rhodora 15 : 44. 1913.
A. mollis Fernald. A, viridis, var. Fernaldii House, 1. c. (Fig.
12, crosses). Northern.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. VIII
ACERACEAE
Norman C. Fassett
The distribution maps of the arborescent maples here pre¬
sented are taken from those prepared by Mr. L. S. Cheney (see
page 177). The range of Acer spicatum is compiled from
specimens in the herbaria of the University of Wisconsin, of
the Milwaukee Public Museum, and of Iowa State College.
Acer
A. SPICATUM Lam. Mountain Maple. (Fig. 1). Common
northward, less common southward.
A. SACCHARUM Marsh., including var. glaucum (Pax) Sarg.,
and var. Schneckii Rehd. Sugar Maple; Rock Maple. (Fig.
2) . Cheney records this as being probably indigenous to every
county in the state. He does not show it in some of the coun¬
ties bordering the Mississippi River, but I have collected it at
Minneiska, Minnesota, across the river from Cochrane, Buffalo
County.
The sugar maple is absent from the barrens of Burnett,
Douglas, and Bayfield Counties, and on the sand plains of
Juneau, Adams, and parts of Wood and Portage Counties is
present only along the Yellow River. It will be seen that these
regions are where Pinus Banksiana is most abundant (see fig.
3, page 178). In Vilas, Oneida, and Lincoln Counties these
two trees grow together, but I am told by Mr. W. W. Morris of
the Economic Land Survey that the maple makes but a poor
growth in this region.
A. SACCHARUM, var. NIGRUM (Michx. f.) Britton. A, nig¬
rum Michx. f. Black Maple. (Fig. 3). General, except
southwestward. Wadmond records it as being frequent in
Racine and Kenosha Counties.^ Cheney says in his manuscript,
^ Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci., Arts and Let 16: 860. 1999.
196 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Fassett— Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. VIII . 197
‘"In Wisconsin this variety is not as distinctly marked as it ap¬
pears to be further east and south. This is especially true of
the lobing of the leaves ; our forms have many five-lobed ones.”
A. SACCHARINUM L. Silver Maple. (Fig. 4). In Wiscon¬
sin, mostly along river-bottoms. The regions on the map en¬
closed by small circles are those in which Cheney noted this
tree as being introduced. Recorded from Milwaukee County
only as a planted shade tree. Wadmond (1. c.) says of the
silver maple in Racine and Kenosha Counties, ‘‘Common : well-
known in cultivation and well-established as an escape. There
are some splendid specimens of the Silver Maple along the
upper Root River, though these perhaps are not native.”
A. RUBRUM L. Red Maple. (Fig. 5). Rare westward.
Cheney does not record this from Milwaukee County, but Rus-
seP says, “Throughout the county. Not uncommon.”
A. Negundo L., including var. violaceum Kirchn. Box Elder.
(Fig. 6). More common southwestward. Localities enclosed
by small circles are where this tree was noted by Cheney as
having been introduced. Occasionally escaped from cultiva¬
tion in Milwaukee,^ Racine,^ and Kenosha Counties.
2 Russel, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc. 5: 209. 1907.
2 Wadmond, 1. c.
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PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. IX
ELATINACEAE— Waterwort Family
Norman C. Fassett
Elatine minima (Nutt.) Fisch. & Meyer; Fernald, Rhodora
19: 13. 1917. E. americana Am. Auth. in part, not Peplis
americana Pursh. (Fig. 1). Probably common in sandy lakes
of northern Wisconsin, but usually overlooked. See pages 161
to 167 for a discussion of the ecology of this species in Vilas
County. Peattie lists this as an essentially coastal plain spe¬
cies,^ saying, '‘Does not go far west in New York State. The
[A] specimen is in the Gray Herbarium from Chisago, Minn.”
Elatine triandra Schkuhr; Fernald, 1. c. (Fig. 2, dot).
In a great arc, roughly 100 miles long, the Johnstown Moraine
runs through south-central Wisconsin.^ As is frequently the
case in such moraines, there are many kettleholes; some of
these are dry, but others have standing water, and in spite of
the utilization of these small ponds for watering cattle or
swine, give promise of interesting botanizing. In one of these
kettleholes in the terminal moraine ten miles northeast of Kil-
bourn, Elatine triandra was collected in the fall of 1929 by F. M.
Uhler, W. T. McLaughlin, and the writer.
The only station east of the Mississippi River listed by Fer¬
nald, 1. c., is at Skowhegan, Maine, where it may be adventive ;
the identity of the plant reported under this name from Illi¬
nois he says is open to doubt.
The seeds of the Wisconsin plant are identical with those of
the eastern E. americana, but the leaf is more linear ; the writer
is led to think that perhaps the latter species might better be
treated as a variety of E, triandra.
Here both f. terrestris Seubert, on muddy shores, and f. sub-
mersa Seubert, in one dm. of water, are represented. Particu¬
larly after being pressed, the leaves of the Wisconsin material
^ Rhodora 24: 88. 1922.
*See Alden, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 106: pi. xxiii. 1918.
i
200 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
of f. terrestris tend to become reddish, and are minutely papil¬
late, in this character differing from the few collections of
European and western American plants available.
A form in 2-3 dm. of water would have been overlooked had
it not been for the zeal of Mr. F. M. Uhler, of the U. S. Bio¬
logical Survey, in his search for aquatic animal life. In con¬
trast to E, minima, which is essentially the same in the water
and on the shore, this plant in deeper water becomes coarse,
about a decimeter in length, with leaves up to 13 mm. long.
It suggests a Callitriche, and is probably f. callitrichoides, at
least as described by Hegi, Ill. FI. Mitt.-Eu. 5 : 539. 1926.
The station for E. triandra lies only a few miles east of the
unglaciated area, and the range of the plant is probably to be
accounted for on a basis of preglacial widespread distribution.
Thus it is in a class with Montia Chamissoi,^ Sullivantia reni-
foliaf^ Aconitum noveboracense, var. quasciliatum,^ and Dodo-
catheon Meadia, var. amethystinum,^ and other plants of cor-
dilleran affinities, in the Middle West confined more or less
closely to the unglaciated area of Wisconsin and neighboring
states. Indeed this kettlehole was probably formed while the
glacial Lake Wisconsin^ was still only a few miles away (fig. 2,
stippled area) ; Lake Wisconsin, now almost completely dried
up, may well have captured the aquatic flora of any preglacial
lake which it drowned.
8 See Holzing-er, PL World 4: 41-43. 1901.
^ Rosendahl, Univ. Minn. Stud. Biol. Sci. 6: 410. 1927.
8 Fassett, Rhodora 31: 49-52. 1929.
« Passett, 1. c. 51-53.
’See Martin, Wis. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 86: pi. vii. 1916.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. X
HALORAGIDACEAE— Water Milfoil Family
Norman C. Fassett
The following distributional maps are compiled from speci¬
mens in the herbaria of the University of Wisconsin and of the
Milwaukee Public Museum. In neither of these herbaria is the
representation of the aquatic plants adequate and these maps
must be regarded as being far from complete.
1. Myriophyllum — Water Milfoil
M. ALTERNIFLORUM DC. (Fig. 1). Mostly northern; per¬
haps more common southward than is here indicated.
M. SPICATUM L. M. exalbescens Fernald, Rhodora 21: 120.
1919. (Fig. 2, dots) . Common southeastward.
M. VERTICILLATUM L. (Fig. 3). Recorded as ‘Tare or local
with us'' in Gray's Manual, ed. 7, the typical form of this spe¬
cies seems to be not infrequent in Wisconsin.
M. VERTICILLATUM, Var. PECTINATUM Wallr. (Fig. 2, crosses) .
Apparently only in the north.
M. HETEROPHYLLUM Michx. (Fig. 4, dots) . Not common.
M. TENELLUM Bigel. (Fig. 4, crosses). Until the summer
of 1929 this species was unknown in Wisconsin, but the writer
in August made a number of collections in several lakes in
Vilas County.^ He also observed great quantities uprooted by
a storm and rolled up on the beach at Cable Lake, near Spooner,
Washburn County; unfortunately collections were not made
here. M, tenellum is probably not uncommon in the sandy
lakes of northern Wisconsin, but is overlooked on account of
its small size and the depth of water in which it grows.
See page 167 of this volume.
202 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
MyrlophylXum alterniflorum
• If. spicatun
4* H. verticlllatum^
var. pectinatum.
• M. heterophyllum
<4 tenellum
Fdssett — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin, X. 203
2. PROSPERPiNACA-Mermaid-weed
P. PALUSTRis L. P. palustris, var. amblyogona Fernald, Rho-
dora 11: 120. 1909. (Fig. 5). Eastern; not common.
3. Hippurus— Mare's-tail
H. VULGARIS L. (Fig. 6). Mostly southern and eastern, but
collected at Port Wing, Bayfield County, by L. S. Cheney in
1897. It was seen at this same locality, in a lagoon back of the
sand beach of Lake Superior, by the writer in 1929.
PRELIMINARY REPORTS ON THE FLORA OF
WISCONSIN. XI
RANUNCULACEAE--=-Buttercup Family
Lois Almon
The following list was compiled from data obtained by study
of the specimens of Ranunculaceae in the herbaria of the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Public Museum. De¬
terminations of the specimens were carefully checked.
The maps represent the mounted material in these herbaria
in June 1929. These maps do not necessarily show the true
ranges of the species within the State, for the collections in
the two herbaria are geographically incomplete. Also, the
number of dots on a map does not necessarily represent the
relative abundance of a species; for common species are often
overlooked by the collector.
Hence, the only claims made for the list and the maps are
that they include, as far as could be ascertained, the species of
Ranunculaceae which have been collected in Wisconsin, and
some of the localities where they have been found.
It is possible that Ranunculus hispidus or a variety of it
should have been included in the list. A specimen of J. H.
Schuette, labelled Preble, Brown Co., May 21, 1892 was re¬
ported by Fernald^ as R, hispidus var. falsus. In the Field
Museum herbarium a Schuette specimen bearing the above data
is filed as R. septentrionalis. The original label bears this
name. Since the plant is distinctly stoloniferous this deter¬
mination is probably correct. No other plant with the data of
the specimen cited by Fernald was found. Nor has any speci¬
men having the characteristics of R. hispidus been found in
either of the Wisconsin herbaria.
Following each specific name is given the distribution, in
general terms, of the species in Wisconsin as far as could be
determined by the available data. Genera and species are ar¬
ranged alphabetically.
^Rhodora 22: 30. 1920.
206 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Actaea rubra
4"var. gigantea
♦ f. neglecta
Anemone canadensis
Anemone cyllndrica
Almon — Preliminary Reports on Flora of Wisconsin. XL 207
208 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Aconitum
A. NOVEBORACENSE Gray var. quasiciliatum Fassett, Rhodora
31 : 49. 1929. Found growing on cliffs at three stations
in the unglaciated region.
Actaea
A. ALBA (L.) Mill. Generally distributed.
A. RUBRA (Ait.) Willd. Generally distributed.
Forma NEGLECTA (Gillman) Robinson. Generally dis¬
tributed.
Var. GiGANTEA Gates, Bot. Gaz. 61 : 193. 1916. One speci¬
men, collected at Altoona, July 10, 1925, by J. J. Davis.
Anemone
A. CANADENSIS L. Generally distributed.
A. CAROLINIANA Walt. West; as though advanced from the
prairies.
A. CYLINDRICA Gray. Generally distributed.
A. MULTIFIDA Poir. Only one specimen, collected at Elkhart
Lake, July IS, 1913, by A. Sandig. In Milwaukee Public
Museum.
A. PATENS L. var. wolfgangiana (Bess.) Koch. Avoids north¬
east section.
A. QUINQUEFOLIA L. Generally distributed.
A. RiPARiA Fernald, Rhodora 1 : 51. 1899 ; ibid 19 : 139. 1917.
North.
A. VIRGINIANA L. Generally distributed.
Anemonella
A. THALICTROIDES (L.) Spach. Avoids north and east.
Aquilegia
A. CANADENSIS L. Generally distributed.
Caltha
C. NATANS Pall. Several specimens collected at Foxboro, Doug¬
las Co., by Charles Goessl, July 18, 1917.
C. PALUSTRis L. Generally distributed.
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Aqullegia canadensis
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Clematis
C. VERTICILLARIS DC. Western half.
C. VIRGINIANA L. Generally distributed.
COPTIS
C. TRIFOLIA (L.) Salisb. Absent from southwest corner.
Delphinium
D. PENARDI Huth. West; as though advanced from the prairies.
Hepatica
H. ACUTILOBA DC. Absent from extreme north.
H. AMERICANA (DC.) Ker. See Fernald, Rhodora 19 : 45. 1917.
Generally distributed.
Hydrastis
H. CANADENSIS L. South.
ISOPYRUM
1. BITERNATUM (Raf.) T. & G. Range not well defined. More
material needed.
Ranunculus
R. ABORTIVUS L. Generally distributed.
R. ACRis L. Introduced European species, spreading rapidly.
At present, absent from western part.
R. AQUATiLis L., var. CAPILLACEUS DC. Generally distributed.
R. CIRCINATUS Sibth. South-east.
R. Cymbalaria Pursh. Beaches of Lake Michigan. One in¬
land station at Lake Geneva.
R. DELPHINIFOLIUS Torr. Avoids southwest corner.
R. FASCICULARIS Muhl. South.
R. PENNSYLVANICUS L. f. Generally distributed.
R. RECURVATUS Poir. Generally distributed.
R. REPENS L. One specimen, collected at Sturgeon Bay in the
Evergreen Nurseries, July 19, 1918, by J. J. Davis.
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Ranunculus pennsylvanicus
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R. REPTANS L. See Rhodora 19 : 135. 1917. Includes var.
OVALIS (Bigel.) T. & G. ; Fernald, 1. c. North.
R. RHOMBOIDEUS Goldie. South.
R. SCELERATUS L. East.
R. SEPTENTRIONALIS Poir. Generally distributed.
Thalictrum
T. DASYCARPUM Fisch. & Lall. Generally distributed.
T. DIOICUM L. Generally distributed.
T. REVOLUTUM DC. Range not well defined. More material
needed.
INVESTIGATIONS ON THE NATURE OF PROTOACHLYA
PARADOXA COKER
James A. Lounsbury
Marquette University
Coker (1923) has already drawn attention to the probable
phylogenetic importance of Protoachlya paradoxa. This fun¬
gus, manifesting as it does, characters almost intermediate
between Saprolegnia and Achlya, would, however, lose much
of its significance if it were shown that an individual were but
a temporarily aberrant species of one or the other of the genera
mentioned above. Those who have worked with the Sapro-
legniaceae know only too well that individual plants are par¬
ticularly sensitive to environmental changes. Not infrequently
abnormalities or variations in development occur which are
difficult to explain on a physical or a nutritional basis. It is
within the realm of speculation that an organism, fitting the
description for P. paradoxa, might eventually turn out to be a
specific member, in a temporarily unstable condition, of one of
the more widely recognized genera.
It was with this in mind that the writer began his studies
on a culture of the fungus isolated from a sample of water, col¬
lected from a stream near Madison, Wisconsin, in the summer
of 1927. This was the first time that the writer, in several
hundred collections of water molds, had encountered a form
which bore sporangia both by cymose branching as in Achlya
and also, occasionally, by internal proliferation as in Saproleg¬
nia; and, which, furthermore, discharged zoospores that were
either monoplanetic or diplanetic in behavior. Attempts to ob¬
tain sexual development were unsuccessful and, for this rea¬
son, further interest in the plant was stimulated.
Coker had experienced difficulty in inducing oogonial forma¬
tion in pure cultures of his plant, in spite of the application of
the methods of Klebs (1899) and of Kauffman (1908). It
seemed then worth while to study the fungus, not only with a
view to determine constancy of sporangial and zoospore be-
216 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
havior, but also in the interest of finding a method to effect sex
organ formation.
Experimental
In pursuing the work, which is here reported, the principles
of bacteriological technique were consistently applied. All
chances of introducing factors not covered by controls were
conscientiously avoided. Where water was used as a medium
for growth of the mycelium it was always carefully distilled
and sterilized. All chemicals were of high quality and all solu¬
tions were accurately prepared. Mycelium, as a source of
inoculum, was maintained in stock cultures grown in agar with
either corn-meal extract or potato-dextrose as a nutritive base.
Inoculations of substrata were made by placing the material,
to be used as a nutritive substratum, in contact with a small
portion of the mycelium-containing agar, flooded with water,
for about twenty four hours. Unless otherwise stated, all
clones were developed in Petri dishes which were kept stacked
under inverted battery jars during the course of the experiment.
It was first decided to see if cultures originating from differ¬
ent zoospores would all develop and reproduce in a manner
answering the description designating the genus Protoachlya.
Accordingly, five single spore isolations were made and clones,
of these five cultures thus obtained, were all grown under the
same conditions. On examination, no differences in the growth
and behavior of the clones could be ascertained. It was con¬
cluded, in consequence, that, whatever might be the cause of
the Protoachlya condition, it was probably not a matter of in¬
stability of a single mycelium.
The relationship of the nutritive substratum to the Proto¬
achlya character was sought next. A variety of naturally oc¬
curring food substances was chosen. Hemp, orange and to¬
mato seeds, corn, wheat and rice grains, fragments of prune,
raisin, orange peel, cocoanut endosperm, carrot and beet root,
and also the bodies of ant pupae were inoculated and flooded
with a shallow depth of water.
There is no object in reporting the effect of these different
substrata on the vegetative development. It is more impor¬
tant, however, to state that the Protoachlya condition remained
unaffected. When sporangial development occurred it was es¬
sentially similar in all cases. In none of this series of clones
Lounshury—The Nature of Protoachlya Paradoxa Coker. 217
was there any evidence of sexuality. It was obvious that the
fundamental generic characters were not dependent upon any
one kind of supply of naturally occurring food.
It was thought, if instability of the plant were a factor, that
there might be some relation between vegetative vigor and
zoospore behavior, of the type concerned. Pieters (1910) has
shown a relation between food concentration and mycelial de¬
velopment. Accordingly, a series of clones, employing varying
concentrations of a pea extract was arranged. Using as a
stock solution a broth prepared by boiling 10 gms. of dried peas
for half an hour in half a litre of water, a descending series of
10 per cent increments proved satisfactory for the experiment.
Observations made on the clones thus developed were negative
in character and no oogonia appeared in any of the mycelia.
For a similar reason, but more especially in the quest of
oogonial formations, the procedure was repeated with spinach
broth, haemoglobin solutions, leucin solutions and dairy milk
dilutions substituted for the pea extract. In all cases good
growth was secured, but no information contributing to the
discussion was obtained.
Trial had shown that the fungus tolerated a relatively wide
range in hydrogen ion concentration, growing just as vigor¬
ously at pH 8 as at pH 4. The effect on reproductive activities
of varying the acidity of the medium was suggested. Using
inoculated hemp seeds as substrata, clone development was at¬
tempted in a series of hydrochloric acid solutions ranging from
M/75 to M/200 by increments of 25. Except in the M/75 solu¬
tions a mycelium was formed in each case. Zoospore forma¬
tion and discharge occurred, however, only in the lowest con¬
centration. Here the condition was no different from that
found in the pure water controls.
In a like manner the effect of potassium hydroxide was tried.
The basic nature of the medium was similar in effect to that
governed by the hydrochloric acid. No growth took place in
the M/75 concentration and no zoospores appeared in any
strength exceeding M/200. In neither the acid nor in the alka¬
line solutions did oogonia occur.
Temperature and light relations were not systematically de¬
termined. In the course of over two years the plant had been
under observation during a range of temperature varying with
climatic conditions. Always the Protoachlya condition per-
218 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
sisted. It was of some interest, however, to find that growth
practically ceases at temperatures in excess of 34° C. A test
on the rate of growth of the mycelium in a solid medium was
made by exposing different areas, for forty eight hours, to light
passing through standardized red, orange, yellow, blue and
green filters. The differences in the wave length seemed to be
ofuite without effect on the mycelium. The effect of light of
different qualities, on a developing mycelium growing in an
aqueous medium, remains to be determined when suitable equip¬
ment for standardizing intensity is available.
A test involving a period of dormancy, while without effect
on the Protoachlya condition, is of a little interest. In August
1927 a small quantity of water, containing recently discharged
zoospores, was added to tubes of well sterilized white sand and
sandy loam. The tubes were then sealed and set aside. Seven¬
teen months later they were opened and the fungus was easily
recovered from both sand and soil by adding corn grain frag¬
ments and water. Hyphae appeared almost simultaneously on
a dozen or more of the pieces of corn material which had been
well separated from each other in their arrangement in the
dish. The indication was that a number of zoospores were
aroused from a dormant condition under the influence of the
food diffusion in the water. Clones developed from the my¬
celium, thus secured, behaved in no way differently from those
taken from the initial stock cultures.
As the result of their work, Klebs, Obel (1910) and Kauff¬
man claim a very definite effect of salts on the sexual reproduc¬
tion of many of the water molds. In earlier phases of en¬
deavor the writer had applied weak concentrations of sodium
nitrate and monopotassium phosphate in conjunction with
haemoglobin solutions to clones with and without substrata,
but with no bearing on sexual reproduction of the organism.
A more systematic test, involving twenty five different salts in
M/50 and M/100 concentrations, was put into effect. This
time, in an effort to minimize the evaporation factor significant
when clones are developed in Petri dishes, test tubes with tight
fitting cotton plugs were used. Hemp seed embryos, selected
for uniformity in size, were inoculated for substrata. These
were transferred to the tubes, each of which contained 10 cc
of the solutions.
Examinations of the mycelia were made at the end of forty
Lounshury—The Nature of Protoachlya Paradoxa Coker, 219
eight hours, one week and two weeks. It will not be necessary
to itemize the apparent effects of the salts in each case. In
general it may be stated that those salts that exerted a dis¬
tinctly lethal effect are :
Strontium nitrate Ferric chloride
Cobalt nitrate Ferric nitrate
Lithium nitrate Uranyl nitrate
Those that either inhibited development or in which spore for¬
mation was indefinite are :
Sodium nitrate
Sodium nitrite
Sodium carbonate, normal
Trisodium phosphate
Disodium phosphate
Potassium carbonate
Tripotassium phosphate
Potassium iodide
Magnesium chloride
Magnesium nitrate
Ammonium nitrate
Potassium nitrite
Those in which spore formation was relatively definite are:
Monosodium phosphate
Monopotassium phosphate
Potassium nitrate
Dipotassium phosphate
Potassium bromide
Potassium chloride
Magnesium sulphate
Except in the case of the monopotassium phosphate solution,
spore discharge was inhibited in all of the M/50 concentrations.
Potassium chloride, in both concentrations, acted strangely on
the sporulation processes. Sporangia formation seemed to
have been stimulated and the spores were larger than usual.
The mature sporangia were suggestive of Thraustotheca, for
the wall, due to the bulging of the spores, was scarcely dis¬
cernible. In general, however, the spores failed to escape
either by disintegration of the spore case wall or by way of an
apical opening. Germination was invariably in situ, as in
Aplanes. While this condition occurred in some of the other
solutions, more especially in that of potassium nitrate, it was
without exception in the potassium chloride clones.
Another feature of the mycelia in the potassium chloride was
the appearance of oogonia and antheridia. No credit, how¬
ever, for this phenomenon may be given to the salt, for the con¬
trol clones in pure water were also found to exhibit a very posi¬
tive formation of sexual structures. This provided a new
angle for consideration.
220 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Occasionally during the progress of the work various at¬
tempts, miscellaneous in character, had been made to induce
oogonial development. One particular clone, developed on corn
endosperm in pure water for three days and then transferred
to a 1 per cent dextrose solution for five days, showed a few
well formed oogonia with antheridia applied. The oogonia
appeared close to the substratum and were enmeshed in an ex¬
ceedingly tangled mycelium. Attempts to duplicate the condi¬
tions failed to promote further cases of sexuality. Sex struc¬
tures were also once obtained in a very dense mycelial weft
which had been cultivated from about fifteen centers of hemp
seed in the one dish. Again the oogonia were found close to
the substratum. On a third occasion sex structures were dis¬
covered on the mycelium which remained in the dishes con¬
taining the soil that had harbored the fungus during its period
of dormancy. In this case the clones were nearly three weeks
old and an exceedingly dense weft of mycelium had been
formed. Further efforts involving the addition of soil to the
clones was unsuccessful in respect to sexual expression.
Coker reports that oogonia and antheridia were frequently
formed in raw cultures where the water, in which the plant
was collected, was maintained. With this in mind the writer
obtained some water from the same stream in which the fungus
was found and substituted that, after sterilization, for the dis¬
tilled water which had been habitually used. The effort, how¬
ever, was without the results desired.
Coker, after many unsuccessful attempts to correlate cul¬
ture conditions with sexual development of the plant, credited
the occurrence of the oogonia as whimsical. This conception
had become a deep seated opinion of the writer, but there re¬
mained the conviction that the ‘‘whimsical’" element could even¬
tually be dispelled. The occurrence of sex organs in the con¬
trols of the salt series provided a suggestion for a fresh
endeavor.
A series of clones, on hemp seed, was developed in tubes of
water of varying depths: 0.7, 1.3, 2.6, 4.7, 5.9, 7.3, 8.9, and
10.3 centimeters were the heights of the columns of water.
After five days the clones were examined and oogonia were
found on all of the mycelia which had been submerged in a
depth of water 4.7 centimeters or more. At a later date, sex
organs appeared in one of the tubes of the 2.6 category, but
Lounshury — The Nature of Protoachlya Paradoxa Coker, 221
on the clones in all of the shallow water tubes no fructification
was found. The writer had no difficulty in successfully dupli¬
cating the experiment and has since been able to secure oogonial
production at will.
Simple and reliable as this method of inducing sexual mani¬
festation seems to be, it is nevertheless empirical and an ex¬
planation was accordingly attempted.
Apparently there were but two differences between the shal¬
low and the deep water conditions. In the shallow water the
dilution action of the water on the metabolic products was
small. Also, the mycelium was less removed from the air and
consequently from an inexhaustible supply of oxygen.
If waste products from the fungus interfered with the forma¬
tion of oogonia, then sex structures should never have appeared
on the clones developed in Petri dishes where the amount of
water was small and the amount of mycelium large. Further¬
more, in a large number of cultures under observation for fruc¬
tification, the mycelium had been kept washed out with fresh
water, but the removal of waste matter by this means had not
yielded desired results. Presumably the subject of metabolic
products was not involved, at least directly.
If oogonial formation required anaerobic conditions, then
the appearance of sex organs, infrequent as it was, should not
have occurred on the clones developed in Petri dishes. How¬
ever, this contradiction is not entirely genuine. It will be re¬
called that sex organs which occurred in the flat dishes were
formed near the substrata and always were found enmeshed in
a dense weft of mycelium. The density of this mat might well
have provided anaerobic conditions, wholly or partially for that
part of the thallus from which the oogonia originated. Hypo¬
thetical as such an explanation may be, it was accepted tenta¬
tively by the writer and more information on the relation of
the fungus to anaerobic conditions was sought.
While the writer has frequently seen saprolegniaceous
growths several feet below the surface in aquaria and has, on
some occasions, observed the white mycelium in spring water
well beyond an arm's reach, he had never though to question
the aerobic habit of these fungi. It would have been assumed,
and perhaps correctly so, that the amount of dissolved oxygen
in the water was sufficient to dispel any idea that the organism
might have the ability to exist as a facultative anaerobe. To
222 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
gain further information on this matter a series of tubes was
arranged with the fungus inoculum placed midway in a column
of solid culture medium, potato-dextrose agar. To effect this,
the agar medium was added to the tubes to a height of three
centimeters. After solidification, a small portion of mycelium
containing agar was introduced into the tube and placed on
the hardened surface of the medium. Care was exercised to
avoid touching the sides of the tube with the mycelium. A few
drops of cooled, but still liquid, medium were added to hold the
inoculum in place when solidification occurred. Further me¬
dium, in a similar state was added until the level stood at six
centimeters from the bottom of the tube. The tubes were then
set aside for four days.
At the end of that time the agar columns were removed by
breaking the bottoms of the tubes to avoid air pressure inter¬
ference. Longitudinal sections were then made of the columns
of the medium and examined. In each case it was found that
the hyphae extended towards the bottom of the tube for a dis¬
tance not exceeding six to seven millimeters. By a few rather
delicate strands, however, the mycelium reached the surface
and there, by a multiplicity of branching it had formed a weft.
As the tubes of this series had been kept upright in a rack
during this experiment, the possibility of geotropism had not
been taken into consideration. To offset this objection, a simi¬
lar series of tubes was so arranged that some of the columns
were inverted, in respect to the upper surface, others were
placed horizontally, and the controls kept as before. The re¬
sults were all the same. The mycelium grew towards the
closed end of the tube for a short distance, but it never failed
to reach the surface in the other direction. (See figure 1.)
To vary the experiment and to neutralize the effect of grav¬
ity, a pair of columns, inoculated in a similar manner, was
equipped so that it could be rotated on a two-tube centrifuge.
After spinning these columns at a little better than thirteen
hundred revolutions per minute for forty eight hours, the di¬
rection of growth was ascertained. As far as the behavior of
the mycelium was concerned there was no evidence of any effect
from the rotation.
To explain how the hyphae found their way towards the sur¬
face was a matter of conjecture. It was assumed, that, since
the agar surface was in contact with the air, the concentration
Loumburi/—The Nature of Protoachlya Paradoxa Coker, 223
of dissolved oxygen was greatest at the top and became less and
less as the bottom was approached. To avoid this situation,
yet another series of inoculated columns was prepared and, as
soon as the top layer of agar had hardened, molten paraffin
was added to a depth of about one centimeter. This would
minimize the difference between the concentration of dissolved
oxygen in the upper layer and that of the lower. Results were
anxiously awaited.
Fig. 1
s- — -surface of medium
f- — ^fungus weft
h— -fungus hyphae
m— inoculum
a— nutritive medium, agar
Fig. 2
p— -paraffin seal
s— surface of medium
f- — ^fungus weft
h-— fungus hyphae
m”“inoculum
a— nutritive medium, agar
Examination showed that the hyphae had penetrated to a
distance of seven millimeters from the starting point towards
the closed end and had extended the full three centimeters
towards the paraffin. On approaching this surface they could
224 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
be seen traversing horizontally in the agar and branching
richly 'where they reached the point of contact between the
paraffin and the sides of the tube. (See figure 2.)
There is but one explanation in order. The mycelium of
this fungus must be able to develop in a medium very nearly, if
not entirely, free from uncombined oxygen. Furthermore, it
is evidently able to respond to minute variations in the concen¬
tration of free oxygen.
Quantitative data are yet to be obtained on oxygen rela¬
tions, not only in respect to growth, but especially to the repro¬
ductive functions. The writer is at present engaged in pur¬
suing this problem and hopes to eventually have something of
interest to report.
In the process of preparing this paper the writer has at¬
tempted to include the essentials of a discussion along with the
report on each phase of experimentation. It only remains to
be said that the fungus under consideration has persisted in
exhibiting very definite characters under the conditions to
which it has been subjected. And since these characters are
quite in accord with those described by Coker for his Proto-
achlya paradoxa, when grown under conditions similar to those
used by the writer for controls, it is assumed that our plant
and those of Coker were individuals of the species. Unless
contrary evidence, based upon offspring from a fertilized egg,
is brought to light, the writer feels content to regard the genus
Protoachlya as a distinct entity.
Summary and Conclusion
1. The investigation has attempted to show that an indi¬
vidual fungus, answering the description of Protoachlya para¬
doxa, is physiologically stable. It is therefore not to be re¬
garded as a temporarily aberrant form of either Saprolegnia or
Achlya.
2. Due to sex organ appearance, with but few exceptions,
only when well out of contact with the air, it is assumed that
sexual expression bears some relation to free oxygen.
3. The fungus is able to develop under anaerobic conditions,
but has a preference for conditions approaching the aerobic.
4. This is the first appearance of the species in Wisconsin,
in which region it is probably rare.
Lounshury — The Nature of Protoaehlya Paradoxa Coker. 225
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PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES IN RELATION TO THE
TAXONOMY OF MONASCUS SPP.
Elaine M. Young
A sporadic and destructive development of “mold'' in the
kilns of a maize starch factory, near Johannesburg, South
Africa, in 1926, aroused sufficient interest to warrant an in¬
quiry into the physiological characteristics of the fungus. The
rich pink coloration of the starchy substratum and the micro¬
scopic appearance of the mycelium, led to its identification as a
species of Monascus. Considerable assistance was given, in
this connection, by Dr. Johanna Westerdijk and Miss Mes of
the Bureau voor Schimmelkultuur, Baarn, Holland, to whom
the writer is indebted not only for suggestions, but for cultures
of related species. It was not then possible to come to any
satisfactory conclusion about the specific name of the form,
with the result that further work was carried out in the Uni¬
versity of Wisconsin, as a subsidiary problem to a more detailed
cytological study, the results of which will be published in a
subsequent paper.
The genus was first described in 1884, by van Tieghem (20),
from material on a boiled potato culture in France. At this
time he determined two species : M. ruber, the type form, and
M. mucoroides, with somewhat larger fruiting structures.
Another species, erroneously regarded as Physomyces hetero-
sporus, found by Harz (9) in glycerin solutions in a soap fac¬
tory in Bavaria, was later correctly determined by Schroter.
In 1895, Went described Monascus purpureus, which he ob¬
tained in Java, where, however, it was not originally grown.
The Chinese cultivate the fungus on rice, with the result that
the mycelium develops profusely until the rich crimson pigment
has permeated the grains completely, when the whole mass is
dried, cut into cakes, or ground to a greyish red powder. In
this form it is exported throughout Eastern Asia, where it is
known under the trade names Ang-quac, Ang-khak, Beni-koji
and Aga-koji, and used extensively in the coloring of fish and
other foods and in the preparation of spirits. This species
228 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
and the closely related Monascus Barkeri Dangeard are of addi¬
tional commercial importance in the manufacture of Anchu
and Samsu, alcoholic drinks. From Saito's description it seems
clear that Beni-koji is in reality composed of Monascus pur-
pur eus and a yeast, the former being capable of breaking down
the rice starch into a simple sugar, while the yeast renders the
further conversion into alcohol possible. The whole process,
then, is effected by these two distinct organisms.
Went (22) first attempted an investigation of Monascus pur-
pureus, both from the morphological and from the taxonomic
point of view. He considered the fungus as belonging to the
Hemiasci, in accordance with the views of van Tieghem and
Brefeld, and his conclusions were supported in the main by
Uyeda, working later with the same organism. It was Barker
(1), however, a few years later, who secured material of the
Samsu fungus from the Malay Peninsula; he made a careful
cytological study of all stages in the life history, and estab¬
lished its identity as a true Ascomycete, although he regarded it
as a very simple sexual type. Ikeno (11) and later Kuyper
(13), working with the same species, strenuously opposed
Barker's views, the former continuing to regard the fungus as
a Hemiascomycete, while the latter proposed to establish a new
order, the Endascineae, for this genus, and to include it among
the true Ascomycetes. Olive (16), supports Barker to some
extent, but disagrees in regard to the perithecial initial; he
feels convinced, however, that all the previous authors have
been dealing with Monascus purpureus which seems justifiable,
since all the material came from pigmented rice. Dangeard
(6) regards the Samsu fungus as a distinct species without,
however, giving any description of its individual peculiarities.
Barker had found certain morphological and cultural differ¬
ences between his form and M. purpureus, but he stresses the
probability that Went was dealing with a fungus having a less
specialized fruiting body. This explanation based on the wide
divergency in interpretation of perithecial development by
these two authors must be ignored in the light of Schikorra's
studies on M. purpureus Went, which will be considered below.
In any case, the morphological characters, upon which species
are largely based, would make M. purpureus and the Samsu
fungus closely related species. A summary of the distinguish¬
ing features of Monascus Barkeri, will be given later.
Y oung— Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp, 229
In 1909 appeared the valuable cytological contribution to the
life history of Monascus by Schikorra (19). Besides the in¬
vestigation of Monascus purpureus Went, a comparison was
made with another, ''non-pigment”-producing, form from a fer¬
mentation institute (Garungsgewerbe) in Berlin. From his
observations, and also from recent cultural studies, it seems
probable that Schikorra's Monascus X is a distinct species.
Reports of Monascus occurring in an unusual environment
came from America in 1910, the first by Buchanan (4) from
material causing mold in maize silage, the second from a bottle
of pickles isolated by Lewis (15) and identified by him as
Monascus Barkeri Dangeard. In the same year Piedallu (17)
records a number of culture trials carried out in order to as¬
certain whether a form, which he collected from oil cans and
skins from a tannery in France, was Monascus purpureus, as
he had suggested in a former paper. After a comparison with
Went's species and with Monascus Barkeri Dangeard on vari¬
ous media, he concluded that his fungus differed from them
chiefly in physiological characteristics, and referred it to a
new species, Monascus olei Piedallu.
Since that time there have been no published reports of any
further species, although in correspondence with Dr. Leva
Walker of the University of Nebraska, it appears that the
fungus, although somewhat sporadic, is fairly common on maize
silage in the corn belt. Some herbarium material of moldy
silage, several years old, kindly sent by her, has since been kept
in cultivation in a flourishing condition.
It is evident that Monascus is a cosmopolitan genus, for its
range has been extended not only to South Africa, as stated
above, but an unpublished record by Charles McGee of two
strains on maize silage was made in Australia in 1926. To
him acknowledgments are due for material of these strains
grown on silage agar. In any consideration of this extended
range, it will be necessary to take into account the fact that
various agronomic strains of maize have been exported from
America to South Africa and Australia during the last two
decades, and that contaminants must obviously have been car¬
ried along with the grain.
230 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
I. The Maize Starch Mold
An inspection of the factory from which the moldy starch
blocks came led at first to the impression that the dampness
and the supply of carbohydrate and proteinaceous materials
contained in wooden troughs were admirably suited to the
growth of Monascus. In all sections of the building, however,
where the germ is freed from the rest of the grain, and through
the shaking and settling processes, the starch is in motion in
SO2 water (0.02 to 0.06% concentration). Only along the
sides of the troughs, where splashing occurs, and on the sack¬
ing around the iron posts, were there evidences of pale pink
masses of Fusarium sp. accompanied by a bacterial growth.
In no case could Monascus be identified in these masses, in
spite of repeated examination. As the starch settled and the
gluten was diverted to another channel, the excess water was
drained away and the mass v/as cut into blocks which were
subjected to a blast of hot air at 96° C. in wooden-lined kilns.
Any impurities (chiefly mineral) were then cut away with the
outer crust, and the blocks were wrapped in heavy kraft paper.
Up to this stage there was no opportunity for the development
of mycelium, but here the blocks were placed in steam-heated
kilns where the temperature rose slowly from 43° to 66° C.,
during a period of 14 days. The infected blocks were located
in that part of the kiln which was farthest from the pipes, in¬
dicating some heat irregularity such that in regions where a
temperature between 30° and 40° C. prevailed, an ideal en¬
vironment was provided for the germination and development
of the fungus.
In the kiln the remarkable development of the mycelium had
prevented the normal '‘crystallizing” process; the starch dried
out very slowly and became divided into prisms, so that the
product was valueless, being loosely granular, and colored at
intervals throughout by a delicate rose pink and spotted by in¬
numerable perithecia. The individual starch grains were swol¬
len and often burst, the ramifying hyphae very much con¬
torted (fig. 1) . The presence of a certain amount of glucose as
a result of the fungal activity, along with the mechanical bind¬
ing action of mycelium, held the block together.
Much of the waste starch lying in the region of the kilns,
contained vigorous growths of Penicillium sp. and Aspergillus
Young — Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp. 231
sp., but no consideration was given to these, since better fac¬
tory sanitation would prevent their serious development.
Physiological Studies
After attempting to isolate the fungus directly from the
block, it was found that far cleaner cultures were obtained if
the moldy starch was washed overnight in running water. The
individual perithecia could then be separated on a sterile glass
slide in sterile distilled water, and broken inside the tube of
agar before the plates were poured. The most successful nu¬
trient medium was made by mixing 40 gms. of crushed maize
seedlings with 600 cc. distilled water. This was used either as
a nutrient solution, or combined with 12 gms. of agar as a solid
substratum. Growth of the fungus is most rapid at 30, 35, and
40° C., although limited at the higher temperatures by the agar
drying out very rapidly; cultures below 30° are slightly slower
in development, and, below room temperature, considerably de¬
layed. The lower temperature limit for growth was not de¬
termined. Conidia are produced after 16 hours and perithe-
cial development is initiated within 48 hours. A deep crimson
pigment appears within a week, increasing rapidly in older
cultures. On darker media a purple tint appears in the red
pigment, but rice cultures remain a vivid crimson. The pig¬
ment, however, fades fairly rapidly in the light, for freshly
broken infected starch blocks, showing a rich pink interior,
bleach out completely after some exposure. The mycelium is
at first white, becoming gray in older parts in consequence of
the prolific development of perithecia, which tend to appear
in definite zones that are particularly marked on maltose agar.
In the nutrient solution growth is somewhat slower, but a
spherical clump gradually appears in the liquid, which later
turns crimson. Microscopic examination of this submerged
mycelium reveals straight, vigorous, vacuolated hyphae, pro¬
ducing conidia rarely, and then singly at the tips of branches.
This character is illustrated in figure 8; a portion of the my¬
celium having rich protoplasmic contents, numerous vacuoles,
and almost no oil globules is shown in 8a; the formation of a
single conidium in Sb; and a swelling, not completed as a
conidium, but later extended to form two projections which will
develop branches, in 8c. After some time, when the amount
232 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
of nutrient in the tube is reduced by half on account of evapora¬
tion, a portion of the mycelium develops on the surface, pro¬
ducing perithecia in that region, but not in the interior. Later
'work on the material of Monascus from Australia showed that
similar vegetative growth occurs in 5% glycerin, until, when
the liquid has evaporated considerably, perithecia are initiated
all through the medium as well as on the surface. It seems
evident, therefore, that there is a correlation between concen¬
tration of nutrient solution and perithecial formation, in ac¬
cordance with the results obtained by Klebs (12) with oogonial
development in a strain of Saprolegnia, and to some extent
with those of Coons (5) on pycnidial development in Plenod-
omus fuscomaculans Sacc.
Humidity
The somewhat rapid change in humidity in all these cul¬
tures under such warm conditions, as well as in the kilns, is
suggested as a factor in the early formation of perithecia. On
agar slants the growth is decidedly superficial at first, but later
the mycelium develops toward the interior of the agar, this
imbedded habit apparently being in response to the drying out
under aerial conditions.
Effect of Protein Percentage
Several preliminary chemical analyses of moldy starch were
made by Mr. J. A. McLachlan, the chemist associated with the
factory, in order to ascertain whether the amount of protein
present bore any relationship to fungal growth. The writer is
gratefully indebted to him for these, as well as for the glucose
determinations, for information concerning the technical as¬
pects of starch production and for many helpful suggestions.
His results showed that infected starch contained more than
the minimum amount of protein, occasionally as much as 0.67%.
Artificial cultures, in this connection showed the following:
(i) peptone agar — ^growth fairly good. Very slight pig¬
mentation evidently associated with carbohydrate impurities
in the commercial preparation.
(ii) pure gluten agar — growth poor, no pigmentation.
(iii) pure crystal starch agar — growth slight, clear rose-
pink pigmentation.
(iv) coarse corn meal agar — growth good, red pigmentation.
Young — Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp. 233
No cultures having varying proportions of protein combined
with carbohydrates were attempted, but cultural characters
here and on maize seedling extract agar, as contrasted with
pure starch agar, pointed to the beneficial effect of the presence
of some protein. Further support of a proteinous medium
playing some part was given in a second paper by Saito (18)
on the enzymes of Monascus purpureus, where he showed that
this fungus secretes a protein splitting enzyme, but no invertase.
Temperature and Oxygen Supply
The fungus was shown to develop under a wide range of tem¬
perature conditions, and although the reading at the com¬
mencement of the last kiln process was 43° C., the following
statements by McLachlan are of interest:
“The present design of the crystal kilns is such that uni¬
form conditions of temperature and humidity are practically
impossible, and this factor alone could account for the presence
of mold in certain portions of a charge and not in others.^'
The conidial and ascosporic inoculum, evidently from infected
grain, is present throughout, and resists the period of subjec¬
tion to hot air at 96° C. The fungus finds ideal conditions for
germination in parts of the kiln where the temperature is
slightly lower than 43° and an abundant supply of food mate¬
rial is provided.
No attempts were made to ascertain whether oxygen supply
bore any relation to perithecial formation, as was suggested for
Monascus purpureus by Went, although his experiments in that
direction were not successful.
Acidity
With regard to the question as to whether the acidified water,
which in the later processes reached a concentration of 0.1%,
was efficacious as an inhibiting factor in the production of my¬
celium, several cultures were attempted. The fungus showed
considerable tolerance to acidified liquid media and better
growth on slants to which 1 to 5 drops of 1% SO2 were added.
Germination of ascospores took place in 0.025% SO2 water,
while conidia germinated in a 0.1% solution, but not in 0.15%
SO2 water.
Under factory conditions, then, control of the mold was ef-
234 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters
fected most satisfactorily by increasing the acidity of the SOg
water used in the various processes.
Systematic Position of the Fungus
(a) Description. Mycelium from starch block contorted;
in artificial culture, usually straight, hyphae 4/x, rarely 3 to 5/>t
in width, colorless, considerably branched in a monopodial or
pseudo-dichotomous manner ; conidia ovoid to pyriform varying
considerably in size from 6 x 5/>t to 16 x 14^. (It may be noted
that the length is given first in all cases.) Walls colorless or
with a fair reddish light brown tinge; perithecia spherical 25
to 55/x in diameter, or subspherical 37 x 36/x, to 50 x 42/x, walls
colorless to light red brown ; ascospores ellipsoidal 5 x 4/^ to
6.5 X 4/x colorless, walls highly refractive. Habit: impure maize
starch.
Growth on a variety of artificial media is easily obtained,
but is luxuriant on potato-beef extract, dextrose agar, and
corn-seedling extract agar (with 1 to 5 drops lactic acid added
to each 5 cc. of medium). Pigmentation ranges from delicate
pink in starch block, crimson on dextrose, dextrin and maltose
agars, to deeper red, with slight purple tinge on dark colored
media. Microscopic examination of milk culture shows pres¬
ence of two distinct pigments, yellow and red, the latter pre¬
dominating, but the yellow easily soluble in water. Range in
temperature conditions considerable, optimum between 30 and
35° C., much delayed at 19° C., no growth beyond 45° C. ; in
acid conditions, growth fair in 1% lactic acid, and SOg water
up to 0.1% concentration.
(b) Discussion. According to the description, this species
conforms most closely to Monascus ruber van Tieghem. There
are, however, certain diverging characters : i. e., ascospores not
more than 6.5 x 4/x, perithecia not strikingly red. A culture
of Monascus ruber van Tieghem was obtained from the Bureau
voor Schimmelkultuur, Baarn, Holland, labelled as such, but
this fungus is almost identical with the starch mold, in par¬
ticular, the ascospores are 5 to 6.5 x 4/x; the perithecia although
usually red to red-brown, are often colorless; the range in size
of conidia includes the measurements given by van Tieghem.
If this specimen from Holland is exactly like the type form,
then the size of the ascospores must have been exaggerated by
Young — Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp. 235
van Tieg-hem; on the other hand, it may be from a later col¬
lection, and identified as Monascus ruber. However, it seems
evident that an authentic specimen of van Tieghem’s type ma¬
terial does not exist. Although in culture the hyphae, conidia
and even ascospores, to a slight extent, vary in size, the latter
are approximately stable. Taking into consideration the devia¬
tion in size of ascospores and lack of any clearly defined red in
the wall of the perithecium, in comparison with van Tieghem's
fungus, there seems no justification for creating a new species
for the starch mold which will be designated as Monascus ruber
van Tieghem.
II. Maize Silage Molds
The two cultures of Monascus, mentioned earlier as having
been sent from Australia, have shown consistent differences.
The specimen from South Coast (sample E) forms a more
vigorous mycelium which changes rapidly from a white cottony
growth to dark grey, at 25°-35° C., in contrast to the Glen
Innes material (sample F) where the growth is less conspicu¬
ous, paler, taking on a tinge of light brown as it ages. The
morphological characters of both coincide with the starch mold,
so that they are, therefore, specimens of Monascus ruber van
Tieghem. The characteristic appearance of E is due to the ex¬
cessive production of fruiting bodies whose walls range from
colorless to light yellowish brown, but the interior is more often
red, particularly in milk cultures. These perithecia vary con¬
siderably in size, spherical from 32 to 50/a in diameter or sub-
spherical 32 x 30ju, to 68 X GV ; they are completely filled, in
most cases, by ascospores whose colorless walls, by their highly
refractive property, are largely responsible for the grey colora¬
tion. In culture and mycelial characters, F corresponds en¬
tirely with the specimen of Monascus ruber from Europe.
Both fungi produce the vivid crimson pigment, without such
definite additional yellow coloration appearing as in the starch
mold. It may seem that pigmentation is stressed unduly,
but these forms can readily be distinguished by this char¬
acter. As an additional observation, the silage mold (sam¬
ple G) from Nebraska always possesses a brown colora¬
tion, which gradually permeates the grey mycelium covering
the strongly reddened nutritive medium, particularly in older
cultures.
236 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
In consideration of the above statements, it is evident that
the starch fungus and the silage molds, E, F, G, are separate
strains of Monascus ruber van Tieghem, diifering from one
another biologically. The organism from silage, studied by
Buchanan in 1910, is probably another strain of this somewhat
variable species, for, although he suggests that it is Monascus
purpureus Went, cultural characters of this latter fungus, com¬
bined with the nature of its conidia and ascospores, distinguish
it from the silage molds. As in the case of the starch fungus,
germination of conidia in strain E occurs in 6 hours. In figure
3 the germ tubes are shown issuing from a part in the spore
wall, away from the region of attachment to the hyphal end.
The cytoplasm is granular, rich in oil, and filled with small
vacuoles. During the following 12 hours, septa are laid down
in the elongating hypha, from which branches are beginning to
develop, while conidia are formed in the older part (fig. 4) . In
cultures 48 hours old, particularly those grown at 35° C.,
conidia are present in abundance, often in long chains, which
may be interrupted by short, unthickened portions of the
hyphae, as in figure 5. When the fungus is cultivated on beef
extract dextrose agar, a considerable development of chlamydo-
spores results, although these may be found to occur upon other
media to a slight extent. Portions of the hypha are separated
by septa and, without any preliminary swelling, become thick-
walled chlamydospores. These may break away as do the
conidia, but have not been seen germinating (fig. 6). Many
of the perithecia in such cultures are small and contain only
two asci (fig. 7).
Degeneration in Stock Cultures
Particular interest has been centered in strain E of Monascus
ruber, because its prolific perithecial development renders it
admirably suitable for cytological study. Diflfiiculty in arriving
at the systematic position discussed above resulted in various
attempts being made to secure Monascus cultures from Eastern
Asia, but without success. It was necessary, then, to use trans¬
fers of M. Barkeri Dangeard, M. Purpureus Went and Schi-
korra’s form from the stock cultures kept at Baarn, Holland.
All these, however, showed obvious signs of degeneracy, evi¬
denced by complete lack of perithecia, irregular, desultory
Young — Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp. 237
conidial production and hyphae with disintegrating contents.
This condition has been brought about by accumulation of toxic
products in the cultures, resulting from a slight bacterial con¬
tamination occurring persistently in rice flasks. It is clear that
the rice used was not sterilized, either by thorough autoclaving,
nor by discontinuous sterilization for three successive days.
This has caused considerable trouble in the culture work, and
has necessitated the various known purifying methods being
used.
In order to be quite sure of dealing with pure cultures, acid
agars and solutions have been tried, since considerable acid
toleration was shown by the starch mold, and as suggested by
Brown (3) and also Hopkins (10). Monascus purpureus de¬
velops successfully on agar in which 1 or 2 drops of lactic acid
have been added to each 5 cc. of the medium. When, however,
5 drops are added, growth practically ceases and the hyphae
become bright yellow and filled with oil globules. There is no
development in a 1% solution of lactic acid. This species forms
conspicuous coils of hyphae on agars particularly those poor in
food materials (fig. 2). These coils occur less frequently in
silage molds. Monascus X Schikorra continues to develop a
mycelium on ordinary media, but still without any fruiting
bodies. It grows sparsely in 1% lactic acid, but well in 5%
glycerin to which 1 drop of lactic acid has been added.
Monascus Barkeri Dangeard which in all solid cultures shows
no signs of pigmentation, grows in 1% solution of lactic acid,
also in acidified glycerin, where a delicate violet purple colora¬
tion has been observed. Only hyphae varying somewhat in
width bearing infrequent single apical conidia are produced.
After the acid treatment, Monascus purpureus, when grown
on potato dextrose agar, forms perithecia, so that it has been
possible to compare this fungus both culturally and morpholog¬
ically with the molds already discussed. Such satisfactory re¬
storative vigor has not as yet been shown by either Monascus
Barkeri or Monascus X Schikorra, so that it is impossible as
yet to state with certainty whether this latter form can be
raised to specific rank.
In order to determine the limit of acid toleration shown by
strain E of Monascus ruber, a series of acidified distilled water
(± pH 6) cultures of varying acidity were used. Conductivity
water (pH 6) acted to some extent as a check and also served
238 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
to illustrate the minute quantity of food materials required by
the fungus for the development of perithecia. Lactic acid solu¬
tions ranging from 0.05% increasing by intervals of 0.05% in
the first case, and 0.5% in the remaining nine, were made up in
sets — each set consisting of six tubes. The individual tubes
contained 5 cc. of liquid. The cultures were placed in the in¬
cubator at 29° C.
The observations made during the succeeding period of four
weeks are recorded in the following table.
Medium
Extent of
mycelium
Pigmentation
Peri¬
thecia
Microscopic characters
Lactic acid.
Percentage:
0.05
in.
wide
Slight pink colora¬
tion in grey my¬
celium, liquid un¬
colored.
+ +
Hyphae filled with oil; perithecia and con-
idia numerous, light colored.
0.1
-M in.
wide
Rich pink coloration
in grey mycelium
mass, liquid un¬
colored.
+ +
Hyphae filled with oil; conidia and peri¬
thecia numerous, brown.
0.5
-yi in.
wide
Rich pink to red;
liquid bright yel¬
low
+
Hyphae filled with oil, walls slightly
brown, conidia few, signly or in chains
of 2. Perithecia rare.
1
H in.
wide
Rich pink to red;
liquid bright yel¬
low
+
Hyphae filled with oil, walls slightly
brown, conidia few, singly or in chains
of 2. Perithecia rare.
1.5
% in.
Rich pink to red,
liquid bright yel¬
low
—
Hyphae similar, conidia few, no perithecia
2.
Min.
wide
Rich pink to red,
liquid bright yel¬
low
—
At first hyphae richly vacuolate, with few
oil globules, Conidia rare, single, dis¬
torted. Older cultures rich in oil, hy-
phal walls red brown, irregular con¬
torted short branches. No perithecia.
2.5
M X M
in.
—
3.
—
3.5
—
Hyphae rich in oil, numerous irregular
short branches. No. traces of conidia
or perithecia.
4.
Slight, con¬
siderably
delayed
growth
—
4.5
None
—
Conductivity
water pH 6
Min.
wide
Grey coloration of
the mycelium. No
red visible, liquid
uncolored
+ +
A small amount of mycelium with numer-
conidia and perithecia.
Just as in the case of the starch mold, strain E shows a pro¬
nounced tolerance to acids. Transfers made from 3.5% lactic
acid cultures on ordinary agars have provided the stock mate-
Y oung— Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp. 239
rial for microscopic work, since the fungus is now pure. Fresh
mounts of this growth still continue to have minute bodies in
the field within conidia and hyphae, exhibiting rapid Brownian
movement. Staining with Sudan III shows them up as oil
globules. These are evidently the bodies noted by Piedallu in
his reference to minute bacilli in symbiosis with the fungus.
Perithecia evidently develop in media varying considerably in
amount of nutritive material. There is not only sufficient food
supply in 0.1% lactic acid, but in conductivity water to produce
fruiting bodies filled with normal ascospores. Although in acid
solutions there is a limit to the concentration the fungus will
tolerate, a vigorous growth is maintained in a considerable se¬
ries of sugar solutions. For example, in maltose solutions,
mycelium and fruiting bodies are found in concentrations rang¬
ing from 0.25 to 15%. In the higher dilutions there is no ac¬
companying red coloration, but it appears and increases in in¬
tensity with the concentration of the medium; grey streaks all
through the diffuse mycelial mass are the zones of perithecia.
Extent of mycelial development increases with the concentra¬
tion, but no cultures above 15% were tried in order to ascertain
the extent to which this will occur. The optimum solution for
perithecial development appears to be 2.5%.
A tendency towards degenerate types of growth in solutions
of greater acidity is displayed by the mycelium, which is re¬
markably like that found in the stock cultures of M. Purpureus
Went, M, Barkeri Dangeard and Monascus X Schikorra. The
last three species are far less tolerant to acids than Monascus
ruber, but in each case a growth occurs in media containing a
certain concentration of a weak acid, but, when the quantity of
dissociated H-ions is increased beyond the capacity of the indi¬
vidual fungus, a degenerate type of development results. This
increase in H-ion concentration may be obtained by using a
more concentrated acid solution, or may be derived, after a
time, from the staling products of the fungus itself. The ex¬
tremely slow growth of the bacterial contamination in some
stock rice cultures points to the probability that the accumula¬
tion of excess acid, as a staling product from the mycelium, is
an important factor in slowing up the further development of
the fungus itself and also provides an environment too unfavor¬
able for bacterial activity. It is well known that the produc¬
tion of staling substances is evidenced by a characteristic zona-
240 Wisconsin Acdaemy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
tion of the mycelium. This is strikingly shown in Monascus,
where regular bands are sharply delimited by the presence of
numerous perithecia. If Monascus spp. are kept in culture it is
necessary to make transfers at reasonably frequent intervals,
sometimes to a different substratum, but in the writer’s experi¬
ence material which can be kept in a dried form is far more
satisfactory, an interesting case being that of Mono^scus pur-
pureus which is handled commercially by the Chinese in the
dried cake or powder form, where the ascospores remain viable
for an indefinite period and are unaffected even when arsenic
is added as a preservative.
Conclusion
Cultural studies of Monascus spp. have been of considerable
value in the recognition of specific forms which are closely re¬
lated. Of these, the silage and starch molds have shown some
interesting physiological characters sufficiently distinct to war¬
rant their being regarded as various strains of a single species,
Monascus ruber van Tieghem, a description of which has al¬
ready been given.
Monascus purpureus is characterized particularly by having
ascospores which are usually spherical, being 5/x in diameter, or
slightly ovoid, their size being 6 x 5/x. The youngest part of
the mycelium is white, but it rapidly changes to a rich pink and
later to a distinctly orange yellow, presumably as the environ¬
ment becomes more acid, since this species is less tolerant to
acids than Monascus ruber, and in an acid medium produces
bright yellow hyphae. The pigment found in the substratum
as the culture ages is deep crimson. Conidial production is in¬
frequent.
Monascus Barkeri differs from M, purpureus in its prolific
development of conidia, usually in chains, while the ascospores
are ovoid, measuring 8 x 4/x. Although the present culture has
shown no fruiting bodies, the cultural characters are distinct.
A clear violet coloration appears in liquid media and the opti¬
mum temperature for growth is 25° C., (no development beyond
30° C.).
Monascus X is characterized by producing a vigorous pure
white mycelium and, according to Schikorra, having larger
ascospores than M, purpureus. No pigment is produced, ex-
Young — Studies in Relation to Taxonomy of Monascus Spp, 241
cept in a few instances where a slight pink tinge may occa¬
sionally be discerned. Nothing further can be stated in regard
to morphological characters since the culture is not fruiting,
so that the question of whether this fungus is a distinct species
must be deferred.
Monascus olei differs from the two previous species in physio¬
logical characters. These, alone, seem to provide insufficient
grounds for the creation of a new species, but Piedallu ap¬
pears to have made careful comparative studies before coming
to any conclusion. His diagnosis must be accepted at this
time, since it has not been possible to obtain cultures of the
form.
Monascus mucoroides is also not available, but from van
Tieghem's description, it is clearly a distinct species, character¬
ized by the lack of pigmentation and the size of conidia, peri-
thecia, and ascospores.
Lastly, it has not been possible to procure a specimen of
Monascus heterosporus (Harz) Schroter, but in consideration
of the pronounced variation in shape and size of conidia in
M. ruber, there seems to be no justification for regarding the
Harz form as a distinct species. This modification was sug¬
gested by Lafar in his description of this fungus, which is here
definitely incorporated with Monascus ruber van Tieghem.
Summary
1. A strain of Monascus ruber van Tieghem causing moldy
starch in South Africa, two strains from maize in Australia,
and one from a similar environment in Nebraska, are reported.
2. The activities of the starch fungus cause, under certain
conditions, the destruction of entire starch blocks. Luxuriant
development occurs between 30 and 35° C., some growth at
40° C., but none at 45° C. A considerable growth occurs in
1% lactic acid and perithecial formation occurs in SO2 water
up to 0.1% concentration.
3. The temperature at which drying of the starch blocks is
begun and the naturally rapid development of the fungus con¬
tribute to these sporadic and widespread occurrences, but the
main factors are seen to be associated with the great tolerance
of the fungus to acids and the vigorous growth in starch con¬
taining an excessive proportion of protein.
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242 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
4. Of the silage molds strain E develops perithecia in great¬
est quantity; this fungus shows considerable acid toleration,
forming a mycelial growth in 3.5% lactic acid. Perithecia are
produced on a variety of media, particularly those containing
carbohydrates, but fruiting also occurs in 0.1% lactic acid and
conductivity water.
5. The various species of Monascus degenerate after con¬
tinued growth on artificial media, while dried material retains
its vigor over a period of years.
6. Up to the present there appear to be five clearly defined
species in this genus: M. purpureus Went, M, Barkeri Dan-
geard, M. olei Piedallu, M, mucoroides, and M, ruher van
Tieghem.
7. Monascus heterosporus (Harz) Schroter) has been in¬
corporated with Monascus ruber, which is a variable species,
as shown by cultural studies, and includes a number of strains.
8. It will be necessary to obtain fruiting cultures of Monas¬
cus X Schikorra before it can be ascertained whether this is a
distinct species.
Acknowledgements are due to Professor C. E. Moss for
granting facilities during part of the work in Johannesburg
and to Professor E. M. Gilbert for kindly advice and criticism
throughout the investigation.
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Explanation of Plates
All drawings were made with the aid of a camera lucida, from fresh
material.
Plate 3
Fig. 1. Monascus ruher, as present in maize starch block, showing
contorted mycelium, and broken perithecium, liberating ascospores.
X 1280 (approx.).
Fig. 2. Hyphal coil from culture of Monascus 'purpureus. X 736.
Fig. 3. Germinating conidia, showing germ tubes, and flattened region
of attachment to hypha. X 1175.
Fig. 4. A culture 18 hours old, showing stages in development of
branches at (a) and (b) ; the remainder of the original conidial wall is
heavily outlined.
Plate 4
Fig. 5. Portion of a mycelium in a culture 48 hours old, showing for¬
mation of conidia in chains of varying lengths.
Fig. 6. Chlamydospore production characteristically produced in the
mycelium on beef extract-dextrose agar.
Fig. 7. A portion of the mycelium from the same agar culture, show¬
ing a small perithecium, with the trichogyne projecting downwards and
the antheridium lying partly at the back, but extended into a branch
bearing two conidia.
Fig. 8. A portion of the mycelium developed in dilute nutrient solu¬
tion, showing at (a) rich vacuolate cytoplasm with no oil globules; at
(b) a young conidium, and at (c) a swelling, which may have formed a
conidium, but which has extended to form a branch, the apex of which is
dividing pseudo-dichotomously.
(Figs. 3-8 inclusive are taken from strain E of Monascus ruher, and
have a magnification of X 736).
TRANS. WIS. ACAD. - VOL. 25
PLATE 3
I
TRANS. WIS. ACAD. - VOL. 25
PLATE 4
8
THE WATER MITES OF THE JORDAN LAKE REGION
Ruth Marshall
Jordan Lake is in the extreme southwestern part of Adams
County, Wisconsin, fifteen miles from Kilbourn and the Dells of
Wisconsin River. It is one of a group of small lakes, ponds
and pools, all situated within an area of some five square miles.
This lake is about one mile long, irregular in shape, with a
large extent of marshy and weedy border. A few rods away to
the west lies Goose Pond, a very shallow spring-fed body, ir¬
regularly C-shaped, with a surface of about five acres; it is
choked with water plants and teems with small animal forms.
Haynes^ Pond, a similar body of water, lies a short distance to
the north of Jordan Lake and there are also three very small
pools in the immediate neighborhood. About two miles north
of this region lie three small lakes somewhat similar to Jordan
Lake, Parker, Deep and Crooked, and beyond these is Goose
Lake. At the village of Oxford, three miles north-east of
Jordan Lake, is a pond which has been dammed. South-east
of Jordan Lake are two other mill ponds near the village of
Big Spring, while some three miles eastward from these, near
the village of Briggsville, lies Lake Mason, the largest lake of
the region. In all, these bodies of water afford a rich collect¬
ing ground for aquatic forms.
In the summer of 1927 the writer spent four months at Jor¬
dan Lake working on the hydracarina. Collections were made
in all of these bodies of water, but especially in Goose Pond,
which was visited once a week. The Birge cone net was used
in securing material ; it was cast from shore, or in a few cases,
thrown from a boat or dragged through shallow water. In
addition, a few clams from Jordan Lake were examined for
parasitic mites.
Nearly fourteen hundred individuals were obtained in some
forty collections from these waters, of which number about
one thousand have been identified. It appears probable that
this is a fair representation of the water mite fauna of the
shallow waters of this biological area.
246 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Nineteen genera with fifty-nine species and varieties were
found, of which four of the latter are new, while several new
records were established for the state. The ‘'red mites'' were
present in large numbers ; about two hundred individuals were
found, the greater number of which belong to the common spe¬
cies Hydryphantes tenuahilis. A few specimens of Eylais were
present, but only one species was identified with certainty
(E, desecta). About one-third of all of the individuals were
Fionas, most of which were assigned to eleven recognized spe¬
cies. The Limnesias comprised about one-fourth of all indi¬
viduals and represented six species, the great majority being
L. fulgida wolcotti. The Arrhenuri were abundant and very
rich in species, eighteen being recognized, with a number of
unidentified females.
Descriptions of the new species, notes on certain new records
and a list of the species follow.
Hydrachna schneideri americana Mar.
PI. 5, Fig. 8
Four individuals of this species were found in the two ponds
at Big Spring. One of these proved to be a young male, the
sex not previously described. The epimera are in form like
those of the female; the fourth, which is somewhat angular,
nearly encloses the genital area. The male genital plates in
this variety are similar to those of the parent species, but are
not so elongated.
Hydrachna rotunda nov. spec.
PI. 5, Fig. 4, 5
The color is deep red. The body is rotund, 1.20 mm. long.
The surface shows small papillae. The dorsal plates are rep¬
resented by two very small somewhat crescent-shaped pieces
just anterior to the center of the body, near which are two
small muscle attachments. The fourth epimera are nearly
rectangular except for the slim projecting inner lower corner
of each. The male genital area is large, obovate, and is nearly
enclosed by the last epimeral pair. The palpi are slim. The
female is unknown.
One young male was found in Goose Pond. The species has
Marshall— The Water Miles of the Jordan Lake Region. 247
also been found in two other places in the state (Green Lake
and a pool near Green Bay) .
Hydrachna crenulata nov. spec.
PI. 5, Fig. 6, 7
The color is deep red with indistinct deep blotches; the eyes
are very dark red. The body is circular in outline, highly
arched and has two slight projections between the eyes. It
measures 1.92 mm. The surface shows faint papillae. Dorsal
plates are not developed, but there is a small thickening near a
large hair papilla some distance back of each eye. The epimera
are heavy, with rounded corners, and the groups are close to¬
gether. The male genital area is cordate in form, closely and
almost entirely surrounded by the last epimeral pair.
The female is unknown. One male was found in a pool near
Oxford.
Hydryphantes ruber (de Geer)
PI. 6, Fig. 9, 10
One adult, found in one of the pools near Jordan Lake is
referred to this common European species. The epimera and
genital area agree closely with Piersig's figure in Zoologica
(fig. 130, a) . The dorsal plate, however, does not agree so well
with this and other published descriptions, being relatively nar¬
rower with more conspicuous posterior prolongations. But, as
the figures of various authors show some degree of variation,
the present identification seems justifiable. Figures are sub¬
mitted in confirmation of this opinion.
Hydryphantes multiporus nov. spec.
PI. 6, Fig. 1~3
The color is bright orange red and the surface is finely papil¬
lose. The larger of two adults found measured 1.50 mm.
The large dorsal shield has conspicuous posterior lateral pro¬
longations and closely resembles that of H. alienus Lund., re¬
ported from Peru. The epimera have the usual form; the
fourth show a considerable convexity where they approach the
genital plates. The genital area is distinguished by the great
248 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
number of acetabula present on the plates; these are variable
in number, even in the two plates of the same individual. There
is an acetabulum on either side close to the genital slit and
from fourteen to eighteen arranged around the outer margin
of each of the plates. In the allied species there is likewise
a large and variable number of acetabula, but the range is not
so great. In the nymphs this variability is likewise shown : in
the seven specimens found, while the left plate bore always
five, the right one in two individuals bore an additional acetab¬
ulum (one very small), and two specimens, one a very young
one, had but four on this side.
The legs are stout; the last one is about the length of the
body. The first three pairs bear many stout bristles, espe¬
cially on the distal ends of the segments. The second and third
pairs have a few long coarse hairs on the fourth and fifth seg¬
ments ; the fourth legs have more and longer hairs. The palpi
are stout.
The nine individuals described were found in Goose Pond and
a nearby pool in June and mid- July.
Atractides jordanensis nov. spec.
PI. 6, Fig. 12-14
The body is nearly circular in outline, compressed, the dorsal
and ventral parts separated by a deep lateral furrow. The
surface of the body and appendages is conspicuously papillose.
The largest males measured 0.985 mm. The colors are con¬
spicuous, red orange predominating; a reddish area borders
the circumference while farther in are irregular blotches which
may be brown or pink on a ground color of pale yellow.
Younger individuals show a more variegated pattern and
brighter colors. The eyes are red.
There is a large dorsal plate with four well defined smaller
ones on its anterior border, the middle two smallest, nearly
trapezoidal, the lateral ones elongate. In this respect the new
species resembles A, anomalus Koch. The epimera are typical
of the genus except that the united first pair are small and the
anterior margins of both first and second do not project very
far over the body margin. The genital plates of the male are
typical, being nearly surrounded by the united third and fourth
epimera. The capitulum is very small, the rostrum is little
Marshall — The Water Miles of the Jordan Lake Region. 249
developed. The palpi are small and stout ; there are numerous
bristles on the palpal segments, some of which are slightly
feathered, while hair papillae are little developed. The legs
are short, the fourth about the length of the body; there are
many heavy bristles, with a few swimming hairs on the last
three pairs.
Twenty five individualus, all males, were found in nine col¬
lections in debris from Goose Pond and in two collections from
Jordan Lake. They were found in June, July and August;
young individuals appeared in late August.
Fiona conglobata (Koch)
PL 6, Fig. 11
Two collections from Oxford mill pond gave seven individuals
(one male, five females, one nymph) of this cosmopolitan spe¬
cies, the first record to the author's knowledge for America.
The specimens have been compared with material identified by
Dr. Viets. The color was dull yellow with brown patches, a
faint red showing in the center of the body. The scattered
acetabula of the female genital area are variable in number
and position.
Arrhenurus hirgei Mar.
PI. 6, Fig. 16, 17
The female of this common species has now been definitely
identified. The body is ovate, 0.85 mm. long, the posterior end
slightly projecting. The fourth epimeral plates are narrow
on the inner borders. The wing-shaped genital areas project
nearly straight out from the genital cleft.
250 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
List of the Species
1. Eylais desecta Koen.
2. Hydrachna schneideri ameri-
cana Mar.
8. Hydrachna rotunda nov. spec.
4. Hydrachna crenulata nov. spec.
5. Hydryphantes tenuabilis Mar.
6. Hydryphantes ruber (Geer)
7. Hydryphantes multiporus nov.
spec.
8. Diplodontus despiciens (Miill.)
9. Lebertia quinquemaculosa Mar.
10. Lebertia porosa Thor
11. Oxus connatus Mar.
12. Frontipoda americana Mar.
13. Atractides jordanensis nov.
spec.
14. Limnesia f u 1 g i d a wolcotti
Piers.
15. Limnesia undulata (Miill.)
16. Limnesia maculata americana
Piers.
17. Limnesia columbica Mar.
18. Limnesia paucispina Wol.
19. Limnesia cornuta Wol.
20. Megapus parviscutus (Mar.)
21. Unionicola crassipes (Miill.)
22. Unionicola aculeata sayi Piers.
23. Neumania semicircularis Mar.
24. Neumania punctata Mar.
25. Neumania extendens Mar.
26. Koenikea concava Wol.
27. Forelia ovalis Mar.
28. Piona rotunda (Kram.)
29. Piona reighardi (Wol.)
Rockford College,
January 10, 1930.
30. Piona inconstans (Wol.)
31. Piona setiger (Wol.)
32. Piona media (Wol.)
33. Piona conglobata (Koch)
34. Piona pugilis (Wol.)
35. Piona crassa (Wol.)
36. Piona debilis (Wol.)
37. Piona turgida (Wol.)
38. Piona constricta (Wol.)
39. Hydrochoreutes ungulatus
(Koch)
40. Mideopsis orbicularis (Miill.)
41. Albia caerulea Mar.
42. Arrhenurus rotundus Mar.
43. Arrhenurus crenellatus Mar.
44. Arrhenurus scutulatus Mar.
45. Arrhenurus infundibu-
laris Mar.
46. Arrhenurus birgei Mar.
47. Arrhenurus manubriator Mar.
48. Arrhenurus parallelatus Mar.
49. Arrhenurus marshallae Piers.
50. Arrhenurus megalurus Mar.
51. Arrhenurus p s e udocylin-
dratus Piers.
52. Arrhenurus apetiolatus Piers.
53. Arrhenurus m a gnicauda-
tus Mar.
54. Arrhenurus superior Mar.
55. Arrhenurus americanus Mar.
56. Arrhenurus reflexus Mar.
57. Arrhenurus pollictus Mar.
58. Arrhenurus falcicornis Mar.
59. Arrhenurus laticornis Mar.
Explanation of Plates
Plate 5
Fig. 1. Hydryphantes multiporus, ventral plates.
Fig. 2. Hydryphantes multiporus, dorsal plate.
Fig. 3. Hydryphantes multiporus, genital area of nymph.
Fig. 4. Hydrachna rotunda, anterior dorsal region.
Fig. 5. Hydrachna rotunda, third and fourth epimera, left side, male.
Marshall— The Water Miles of the Jordan Lake Region, 251
Fig. 6.
Fig. 7.
Fig. 8.
epimera.
Fig. 9.
Fig. 10.'
Fig. 11.
Fig. 12.
Fig. 13,
Fig. 14.
Fig. 15.
Fig. 16.
Fig. 17.
Hydrachna crenulata, anterior dorsal region.
Hydrachna crenulata, ventral plates.
Hydrachna schneideri americana, male genital area and left
Plate 6
Hydryphantes ruber^ ventral surface.
Hydryphantes ruber, dorsal plate.
Fiona conglobata, genital area of female.
Atractides jordanensis, dorsal surface.
Atractides jordanensis, right palpus.
Atractides jordanensis, ventral surface of male.
Lebertia quinquemaculosa, ventral plates of nymph.
Arrhenurus birgei, dorsal surface of female.
Arrhenurus birgei, genital area of female.
252 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
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Marshall — The Water Miles of the Jordan Lake Region, 253
TRAMS. WIS. ACAD., VOD. 25
PLATE 6
THE HYPODERMAL GLANDS OF THE BLACK SCALE,
SAISSETIA OLEAE (BERNARD)
II. The Ventral Glands
Wm. S. Marshall
University of Wisconsin
When the study of the hypodermal glands of the black scale
(Saissetia oleae) was started and a number of sections of in¬
sects of different ages had been examined, it became evident
that the work would be a fairly long one and therefore, as the
position of the glands upon the body made it easily possible,
the work has been divided into two parts. The first section
treating of the glands found upon the dorsal surface of the body
was published in the last volume of these transactions, the sec¬
ond and last portion, the ventral glands, is contained in this
paper. Nothing has been done to prove the function of the
different types of hypodermal glands possessed by these scale
insects, but two questions at once arise; are they all glandular
in function and, if so, what in the life of these sedentary in¬
sects would necessitate the possession of so many glands open¬
ing to the outer surface of the body.
The slides used for this study were, in great part, the same
from which the work on the dorsal glands was made, conse¬
quently the methods of preservation and staining of the scale
insects will not be repeated ; they can be seen by consulting the
previous paper (6). One change, however, was this: wishing
to examine only the ventral glands a number of mature insects
were sectioned after the thick dorsal cuticula had been re¬
moved; this was easily done by cutting out the body of the
scale insect after it had been preserved. The insects were
placed in a watch glass of alcohol under a binocular and then,
with a fine dissecting knife, nearly the entire body could be
removed; it was thus very much easier to section the insect
than when the dorsal wall was intact.
After studying the glands upon the ventral surface of the
body it was found possible to place them in three groups or
256 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
types. The first of these was very distinctive and entirely
different, principally in the possession of its long duct, from
any of the others; the glands of the second type were easily
distinguished by their size and shape and the restriction in
their location. The glands of the third type were widely dis¬
tributed over the ventral surface of the insect; they were not
so characteristic as the other two types. This last group of
glands did not show the similarity in structure of the other
types ; they can, however, all be placed together and will be so
treated in the present paper.
First type, the stalked glands. The first noticeable appear¬
ance of these glands was in early second instar larvae, no trace
could be found in those of the first instar; all that could be
seen in any of the youngest glands was a small irregular mass
of protoplasm containing one or two nuclei and in the center, a
little nearer that surface of the young gland facing the cuticular
layer of the body, was a clear rectangular space, the beginning
of the future duct (fig. 1). Due, as one viewed the section, to
the smaller amount of protoplasm above and below the duct
than at either side this central part appeared lighter than the
rest of the gland. In nearly all specimens a nucleus could be
seen at either side of the duct; there might have been more
than two of these in each gland as all specimens studied were
in sections and other nuclei, if present, might have been re¬
moved or hidden from view. An opening through the adjacent
cuticular layer of the body was not observed in any of the
youngest glands although such must always be present as each
gland undoubtedly develops as an invagination of the body wall.
Glands similar to these of the black scale have been described
in other coccids (9, 16, 17), but no attempt has heretofore
been made to trace their development.
The duct lengthens and pushes the gland a little further into
the interior of the body; other than this no difference is seen
between a slightly older stage (fig. 2) and the one shown in the
first figure. Due to a slight increase in the size of the gland,
more nuclei can now be seen and the opening of the duct to the
outside is discernible. This duct is very small so that most
sections do not show it ; to be visible the gland must be cut di¬
rectly through its center and at the proper angle ; this accounts
for the outlet of the gland not showing in most of the young
specimens figured.
Marshall — The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 257
The gland begins to lengthen and its duct, running longi¬
tudinally through about two-thirds of its central part, grows
longer (fig. 3) ; it has, of course, increased in size and contains
more nuclei which are now arranged around the duct to form,
as in the regular hypodermis of which it is an invagination, a
single layer of cells. In this specimen and a somewhat later
one (fig. 4) the gland is nearly straight and more or less at
right angles to the cuticula; its apical portion is often slightly
bent and this is shown by a darker terminal portion due to the
end, in many specimens, turning away from or towards the
observer.
The duct present in the youngest glands is a straight tube
which, when the gland lengthens, passes longitudinally through
the proximal two-thirds or three-quarters of its length to open
through the cuticular layer. Very early in development there
appears, from its distal end, a second tube, a continuation of
the first one; this second one is smaller in diameter than the
original tube and is slightly curved. It arises at the margin
of the free, distal end of the original duct and grows out into
the terminal portion of the gland (figs. 4 and 5) which it fol¬
lows in its growth and is, as is also the original duct, surrounded
by a single layer of cells, the developing gland. Coincident
with the development of this smaller tube one or two of the
nuclei of the gland becom.e larger than the others (figs. 5, 6
and 7) .
After the formation of the smaller part of the duct the next
most noticeable change is the development at its apical end of a
bladder which first appears as a small, clear, space, a continua¬
tion and enlargement of the duct into which it opens. The
bladder is surrounded by protoplasm ; at first no nucleus is seen
adjacent to it (figs. 6 and 7), but later one or two, the largest
in the gland, come to lie close to its margin (figs. 9 and 10).
There is some doubt about there being two of these large nuclei,
although sections can be found in which this number is present ;
sections only were studied and in these two parts of a single
large nucleus might be mistaken for separate ones. When one
examines the older glands it is evident that there is a single,
very large, terminal nucleus which occupies, relative to the
other parts, about the same position in all the glands. With
the growth of the bladder this large nucleus assumes a more
terminal position in the gland and the thin layer of protoplasm
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258 V/isconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
which at first surrounds it increases in amount to become one
of the main portions of the gland.
The bladder is at first clear and transparent (fig. 8), but in
many specimens it soon shows a reticular structure due to the
first appearance of the thickenings of its wall (figs. 6 and 7) ;
these are very noticeable in all the older stages. The bladder,
as well as its duct, has a cuticular lining and any irregular
thickenings of its wall will account for the markings which in
its development soon become apparent. Most of these thick¬
ened parts appear as strands over the surface of the bladder,
some are branched and in other ways they are more irregular
than shown in figures 11 and 12. The use of these cuticular
thickenings is, no doubt, to strengthen the bladder; this might
be necessary when some other part of the body presses against
the gland. Many of the glands extend free into the body cav¬
ity, such have a regular shape (fig. 15) ; others in their growth
press against some other tissue of the body and this may cause
them to assume irregular forms. A few of the glands which
lie far out near the margin of the insect's body may, in their
growth, come against the dorsal body wall and would then nec¬
essarily become bent. A normal gland (fig. 15), pyriform in
shape, extends into the body cavity more or less at right angles
to the surface of the insect's body; many more are bent al¬
though in these the larger proximal part of the duct is nearly
always straight, but often at an angle to the cuticular layer.
In most of the glands figured showing the position of the
smaller duct as it emerges from the larger one, it appears to
arise at some position at the distal end of the latter. In very
many of the specimens it is seen to come off from the central
part of the end of the larger duct; in others at one side and
again from any position between the center and the margin.
In some sections one gets the continuation of the ducts in such a
position that the real origin of the smaller from the larger one
can be correctly seen and their relation to each other deter¬
mined. Such a view (figs. 11 and 15) shows that at one side
of the distal end of the larger duct there is a slight outpushing
of the rim; this extends but a short distance and ends blindly,
opposite this there is another outfolding which does not end
blindly but becomes the smaller duct to terminate in the blad¬
der, its infiated end.
All parts of the gland, its bladder and duct, are now formed
Marshall — The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 259
and the only change to hereafter take place is one of growth,
the enlargement of the gland and its bladder. In the wall of
the bladder the irregular markings soon become noticeable as a
number of rib-like thickenings which in most of the sections,
where a part only of the bladder can be seen, appear to pass
along the periphery to its outlet at the opening into the smaller
part of the duct (fig. 12). In some mature insects the strands
are much more noticeable than in others ; this may be due to a
real difference in the thickness of the bladder’s wall or to the
different methods of preservation and of staining. In sections
of the bladder the markings appear as alternate thinner and
thicker portions of the wall, somewhat like the taenidium in a
longitudinal section of a large trachea, only without such regu¬
larity (fig. 15).
In each instance the gland, the bladder and the large terminal
nucleus increase in size; the length of the duct varies and this
depends upon the location of the gland and its chance of being
retarded in its growth and of not reaching its maximum length.
Near the margin of the insect’s body this may be influenced by
the proximity of the dorsal wall, in other situations by the
presence of other organs; these same things make the differ¬
ence between a straight and a bent gland and the majority be¬
long to the latter category. Figure 15 is an example of a gland
growing free in the body cavity; from this specimen one can
get a good idea of the relative size of the different parts of the
gland as found in mature insects. The term mature insect has
been given to those specimens of the black scale within whose
body embryos are present.
That these stalked glands are actively secretory is shown not
only from their structure but from the fact that in several sec¬
tions the secretion is visible which has been poured out from
the duct. This secretion is not often seen within the bladder,
but in some sections it can be observed as an accumulation on
the ventral surface of the scale insect and near the opening of
the duct. The slides used were all cleared with xylol in which
the preparations were placed twice, once when the entire insect
was being transferred into paraffine and again, after staining,
when the sections were cleared; the presence of the secretion
in some of the sections shows that it was not entirely, if at all,
dissolved by the clearing agent. The secretion formed by the
glands and seen in the slides was clear; it contained a number
260 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
of small vacuoles which were scattered irregularly throughout
its mass (fig. 14). One specimen showed the presence of some
secretion entirely filling the duct and protruding from its open¬
ing; it v/as black, but whether its dark color was due to some
abnormality could not be determined. In this same gland the
contents of the duct could easily be followed from one end to
the other and, while no mass of secretion was seen along the
surface of the insect where the duct opened, one could easily
determine that something had been flowing from the duct by a
slight protrusion from its opening (fig. 15).
If a black scale be examined while still in its more flattened
condition, it will be seen that there is a marginal area which is
rather flat; here the dorso-ventral diameter is quite short as
compared with the median one. From this marginal area on
the ventral surface a thin, colorless, waxy layer can be scraped
away. After the insect becomes adult and its body form
changes to become somewhat hemispherical in shape, the flat
marginal area is lost and there is formed a fleshy lip-like flap
which runs entirely around the body near its margin; an un¬
successful effort was made to find this marginal secretion in old
insects. These stalked glands are of course ventral; they are
confined in great part to the marginal region of the body and
are especially abundant near its anterior end. They may be
entirely separated from each other or crowded together in
groups (fig. 16). This marginal location corresponds to the
layer of wax which we have just mentioned.
Gland number two. The ventral gland, which is here desig¬
nated as number two, has already, at least others of a very
similar structure, been described in several coccids; in the de¬
scriptions of these glands they are given as situated around the
genital opening, in the vagina or scattered over different parts
of the body. This type of gland in the black scale would not be
given here were it not that they are found, sparsely it must be
admitted, on the ventral surface of the body; a similar but
larger gland, the spinneret, is also found in groups in the ter¬
minal portion of the vagina. Childs (2) has described a group
of glands in Epidiaspis piricola which he calls the circumgen-
ital glands or spinnerets. The elongated cells, seven cells in
each unit, of these glands are held together by smaller support¬
ing cells and a duct leads from each gland — opening to the out¬
side through a circular pore. These spinnerets were not found
Marshall— The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 261
in the larval stages of the insect, but develop later and function
'when the scale insect becomes mature. Berlese (1) figures,
from Guerinococcus serratulae, a gland which is similar to our
number two; the cells of these he describes as much shorter
than those found in the regular spinnerets. Kitao (5) de¬
scribes somewhat similar glands which he says are scattered
among the spines; he also mentions the spinnerets. Oguma
(11) mentions two kinds of wax glands; one, similar to the
spinnerets, has a cuticular pore with a sieve-like opening not
situated at the surface, but a short distance below it; these
glands he locates in the perianal region of the larvae and of the
female images. The second gland he describes is very siniilar
to our number two; this is present “nearly everywhere under¬
neath the chitinous integument of the larvae, but also in adults’".
Matheson (8) writes of a gland which is particularly abundant
about the genital opening, but is also scattered over the ventral
surface on the lateral margins of the body of the insect. This
gland consists of from seven to eleven cells plus a terminal one
which forms a kind of stopper. The pore is a circular opening,
chitinous ring, in which there are usually ten small holes.
Matheson’s third type of gland is much like the number two we
describe, but is smaller than ours and has a different pore.
Teodoro (17) describes glands similar in structure and in pore
opening to the spinnerets. The spinnerets that have been de¬
scribed by these workers in the different coccids were all quite
similar in structure and closely resemble the corresponding
glands in the black scale.
There are, opening into the last part of the female reproduc¬
tive organs of the black scale, a number of long, narrow glands ;
these are grouped very close together and a few are also found
on the body surface very close to the genital orifice. In this
insect their function as spinnerets is very doubtful; the black
scale is an egg-laying insect, but does not show the white cot¬
tony mass which is often seen underneath many other coccids.
If a mature black scale is removed from a plant upon which it
is feeding and its ventral surface examined under a binocular,
one will easily see what at first appears to be a white fluffy mass
that could readily be mistaken for waxy filaments; a close ex¬
amination shows that this is nothing but a group of empty egg
shells which, after the emergence of the larvae, have collected
under the scale.
262 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, i
The spinnerets in the black scale are close to each other,
packed together, as it were, around this proximal portion of
the female reproductive organs and whatever liquid they secrete
could easily reach the under surface of the body or mix with
the eggs just as they were leaving the mother. Seen in surface
view the openings of these glands appear as circular, glisten¬
ing, cuticular plates not touching each other but close together
so that one can see eight or ten of them in one section. The
use of the secretion from the glands might be to fasten the eggs
to each other as they are deposited under the scale ; as already
mentioned no waxy filaments were seen on the under surface
of the insect's body.
The spinneret of the black scale (fig. 17) consists of a num¬
ber of long narrow cells each widest at its basal end where its
nucleus is situated ; the entire gland is also widest at this end,
decreasing in diameter as it passes towards the surface of the
body to finally become narrower than the width of the circular
pore-plate through which it opens to the outside. In a few of
the specimens one could see a duct which extended for a short
distance from the cuticular plate down into the gland. The
plate through which the duct opens is similar to those of the
smaller glands found externally on the ventral surface and will
be described with them.
On different parts of the ventral surface, but not nearly as
abundant as the other glands (spinnerets excepted and they
are restricted to one locality) are a number of small, gland-like
structures which are differentiated from the other glands and
easily separated from all but the spinnerets by the form of their
cuticular pore-plate. These glands, not abundant, were found
only on the posterior part of the abdomen near the median
axis of the body ; they are also present near the genital orifice.
Of the function of these glands nothing is known ; they appear
as if they were spinnerets which had wandered out on the ven¬
tral surface but failed to reach their full growth.
The smallest of these glands was found in a fairly old second
instar larva (fig. 18) ,* there was a slight invagination of the
hypodermis and in this part its cells were a little deeper and
the nuclei slightly larger and darker staining than the neigh¬
boring normal cells. The changes noticed at this region in the
hypodermis are hardly definite enough to satisfy one that this
is the beginning of the development of any gland, but the over- il
Marshall— The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 263
lying cuticular plate makes identification positive; this plate is
hard to figure in section but enough of its structure can be seen
to satisfy one as to its identity. A number of these young
glands, similar to the drawing, were found, all present on the
abdomen.
After this type of gland has reached its full development
(fig. 19) the individual cells composing it are long and narrow
and each has a nucleus near its base ; the central are longer than
the peripherial cells. Nothing resembling a duct was observed
but each cell of the gland narrows to a neck and ends against
the inner surface of the cuticular sieve-pore. The number of
the cells in the gland might correspond to the pores in the
cuticular plate thus giving each cell its own opening to the out¬
side; they could also join, as seems probable from an exam¬
ination of those observed, and the secretion would then be fil¬
tered as a mass through the exit pores and leave the gland as a
number of separate filaments corresponding to the number of
pores in the pore-plate.
The openings of these glands are similar to those of the spin¬
nerets and one description will suffice for both. In section a
saucer-like depression is seen in the cuticular layer and from
the bottom of this four, this is the most constant number, teeth
protrude towards the opening (figs. 18 and 19) . The two cen¬
tral teeth undoubtedly show the limits of the central circular
part seen in surface view (fig. 20) . Between these two inner¬
most teeth and the next outer two, lie the pores. A glance at
the surface view will show a central circular piece; this might
be an opening, but I am inclined to think that it is part of the
cuticular layer having a different appearance than the rest of
the disk. About eleven oviform pores are arranged in a circle,
symmetrically, around this central disk and these form the
openings through which the secretion passes to the surface.
An outer cuticular ring forms the boundary of the plate.
Murdock (10) describes in Icerya purchasi a compound pore
similar to what is found in the black scale ; he shows a central
pore of two openings and this is surrounded by a circle of from
eight to twelve small pores. If the central circular part of the
plate in the black scale consisted of two openings the similarity
of the pores in these two scale insects would be very pro¬
nounced.
One specimen of this type of gland found in a mature scale
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insect showed some modifications from that just described.
The larger, basal, part of the gland was just as described, but
each cell as it approaches the sieve-pore separates from the
others and a narrow space is thus formed between the different i
cells. One might assume from this that the cells of the gland ;
were equal in number to the pores and that each one had its
own exit-pore through which the secretion reached the surface.
Third type gland. These glands appear very early in larvae ,
of the first instar and were noticed in some but a few hours !
old; they are found scattered over the ventral surface of the
insect’s body, more numerous near its margin than the median
part. None of the early developmental stages of these glands
were found ; in the young larvae in which they were first ob- , j
served they were already well formed and it became a matter of ^
tracing their growth and any changes which took place in the !
relative increase in the size of their different parts. The first ’
study of these glands led one to believe that there were two |
kinds : the one smaller both in actual size and as compared to 1
the insect’s body, the other was much larger both proportion- i
ally to the other gland and also as compared to the actual size
of the insect; the bladder in this larger gland was very con- i
spicuous and in many larvae it was filled with a substance, «
generally taking the form of strands, which often stained with If
haematoxylin. These two apparently different types of glands. J[
could be found in the same young larvae and one section was
seen containing both kinds, one on either side of the insect’s i|
body. As larvae of different ages were examined it was evi- ||
dent that the glands all belonged to one type, but might show m
different stages of their growth in the same larva ; both were |||
found very early in the life of the insect and were also present 9
in older larvae. In the mature insect all of these glands ap-
peared to disintegrate, becoming irregular in shape and content. |
The youngest of these third type glands was found in a larva lii
which had emerged but a few hours before it was preserved. «
This gland (fig. 21) shows that all its parts are developed; it is K
more regular in outline, but its bladder and duct are similar I
in general structure to what is found in the older larvae. The Xf
duct leads through the cuticular layer of the body to end in the
bladder. The gland consists of a single layer of nucleated
cells, at least it has that appearance although no cell boundaries Bi
could be seen, and, at this early stage, the nuclei of these cells 9
Marshall— The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 265
show considerable differences in size. Each of these glands
most probably originates as an invagination of the body wall
and retains its connection with the outer surface by its duct.
The normal hypodermal cells of the body wall surrounding the
gland's duct are flattened but often fail to show any direct con¬
nection with the cells of the gland.
In specimens of the black scale which are undoubtedly young
second instar larvae, or older, glands can be found which are as
small as that just figured from a young first instar larva. In
such a gland (fig. 22) a number of small nuclei are present, but
no real difference is noticed in the general structure of these
two glands. This would show that these glands did not all
first appear in very young larvae, but that for a certain time
during the life of the insect they increase in number with its
age and, as one would expect, more of them are present in
larger than in smaller larvae.
Other than the increase of the gland in size, the most notice¬
able feature during its growth is the appearance in the bladder,
which increases in size with the gland, of the secretion which,
in many specimens, takes the form of strands; many of these
end at that part of the bladder where it opens into the duct
(fig. 28). Somewhat similar strands have already been no¬
ticed in the bladder of the stalked glands, but in these they were
always of a yellow color and undoubtedly thickenings of the
cuticular lining of the bladder. We find that in the third type
glands these strands are not like this but that, after reaching a
very pronounced size, they take the color from the haematoxylin
stain and have the appearance of irregular strands within the
bladder, not thickenings of its wall.
Just what the sequence of this secretion formation is and
how it takes place, if always in the same way, is uncertain as
the short description here given has been taken from larvae
the comparative ages of which, except in a general way, were
unknown. The black scale in its development passes through
instars in each of which great changes take place both in the
size of the larvae and the growth and development of their or¬
gans; it is therefore difficult to distinguish the younger from
the older larvae when they are of nearly equal size. The first
instar can be differentiated from the second both when viewed
externally and in sections but, from a study of the latter, it is
difficult to tell comparative ages. If this type of ventral gland
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has as its function the secretion of the exuvial fluid, they
should tend to be most active and their contents greatest before
ecdysis. If this is their only use, why are so many present?
It has already been shown that some of these glands are found
to be just starting their growth during the second instar; if
they are exuvial glands the larger larvae would, for their
ecdysis, require more exuvial fluid than those of smaller size
and one might expect to find more of them on the larger larvae ;
this is so.
There is no definite size of the gland at which the secretion
first appears; in the growth of the gland it and its bladder be¬
come enlarged and the latter may be clear in large glands or, in
much smaller ones, show signs of the secretion content. In
some second instar larvae, the glands are not nearly so large,
both in actual size and relatively to the insect's body, as many
found during the first instar. There are other glands which
are in part or entirely filled with a granular content instead of
the more frequent strands. A number of small first instar
larvae show few extremely large glands which occupy a rela¬
tively large space in the body cavity of the insect. In the
larvae, until they are very large, the size of the gland may
have nothing to do with the comparative size of the body ; this
also is true of the size of the bladder in proportion to that of
the gland ; in some larvae it fills most of the gland, in others it
is comparatively small. When the secretory strands first ap¬
pear (fig. 24) they are found in glands of various sizes; in the
small ones they are noticed as rather delicate threads passing
across the bladder or partially around its circumference and in
this early stage they were faint in outline and did not take the
color of the staining fluid. With the increase in size of the
bladder the strands, if present, generally enlarge and run more
together; they thus lose, in part, their strand-like appearance
(fig. 26) until they finally form masses of secretion connected
by strands passing from one to the other (fig. 27).
When one studies these glands in the mature insect, they
show a similarity which is quite evident; at first many differ¬
ences are observed in size and appearance, but a close exam¬
ination shows that they have a certain resemblance to each
other which would place them all in the same type of gland.
In these third type glands of the adults, the external form is
often in a collapsed condition with irregularities in outline;
I
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Marshall— The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale, 267
changes which have taken place in the content or structure of
the gland are also most noticeable. The bladder is generally
empty, but in some specimens its basal part is filled with what
may be a secretion ; in some specimens this shows as an irregu¬
lar granular mass, in others it takes a light blue color which
hides the structure of its contents. The wall of the bladder is
very distinct, becoming thicker near the outlet of the duct and
forming there a circular plate which extends part way down
the bladder. The content of the gland proper has become very
irregular, appearing as a mass of vacuoles and of glistening
yolk or oil bodies; these are more crowded together and some
are larger than is shown in the drawing (fig. 29). The out¬
line of the large nucleus at the basal part of the gland is very
irregular and its contents, although taking a blue color from
the stain, shows no regularity of structure.
These third type glands were very numerous on the ventral
surface, but we failed to find them in any definite arrangement
in the body ; they were present on the head, thorax and abdomen
but much more numerous on the last region of the body. There
appears to be no other use for the secretion of these glands
than that of aiding in ecdysis ; in the mature insects their ap¬
pearance tends to show that their function has ended. The
exuvial glands have been described from a number of insects
and one can form conclusions by comparing these glands in the
black scale with the exuvial glands of other insects.
In one specimen of a mature black scale, another kind of ven¬
tral gland was found (fig. 31) ; this might be taken as a modi¬
fication of the second type were it not that the outlet of three
or four of them was seen and each of these had an entirely dif¬
ferent appearance (fig. 32) from any of the previously de¬
scribed glands. In the description of the second type of gland,
mention was made of a few which showed a tendency to have
their cells separated from each other before they reached the
pore. This gland showed the same thing, but it was much
more evident and there were alternate darker and lighter lay¬
ers in the gland just before it reached the cuticular layer, mak¬
ing this separation of the cells very marked. In the main body
of the gland, the nuclei were very plainly seen, but there was
no appearance of a division into cells.
The opening of this gland, when seen in surface view, looked
as if there were nine cuticular teeth surrounding a central pore
268 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
(fig. 34). These might correspond to the alternate dark and
light parts in the gland, but of this we could not be sure.
Summary
The glands on the ventral surface of the black scale, Sais-
setia oleae, can be grouped into three types. The first of these,
the stalked glands, appear in early second instar larvae ; at first
small and nearly spherical they contain a very few nuclei and
traces of a duct. They elongate and from the apical end of the
duct develops a smaller one; this is slightly bent whereas the
larger original duct is generally straight. At the terminal end
of the smaller duct a bladder develops and upon its wall, as it
increases in size, appear cuticular thickenings in the form of
strands. A secretion can be found on the ventral surface of
the insect near the outlet of the glands and a few specimens
were observed in which a secretion filled the duct. These
glands are present on the three body regions of the scale insect.
Glands of the second type, consisting of long narrow cells,
are found, as spinnerets, inside the genital orifice. Similar
glands, but much shorter, are present in small numbers on the
ventral surface ; they and the spinnerets open to the surface of
the body through a cuticular sieve-plate in which are several
small pores arranged in a circle. These glands are similar to
the spinnerets, but their cells are shorter.
The third type of glands, probably all exuvial, are very
abundant and are found on all parts of the ventral surface of
the insect’s body. The youngest seen, on very early first instar
larvae, are small, round glands with a narrow straight duct
leading to the outside. The duct comes from a bladder which
in many specimens is very large relative to the size of the
gland. Many glands show a secretory mass within the bladder.
In the preserved specimens this secretion is in the form of
strands. In the mature insect the glands are larger, but at this
age of the insect they disintegrate.
Another kind of gland was found but only in two specimens
and but very few of the glands on either of these insects.
Marshall — The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 269
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Explanation of Plates
Cu., cuticula. Hyp., hypodermis.
DucP, smaller duct, Od,, entrance of duct into bladder.
Duct, larger duct. Scr., secretion.
Figure 16 has been multiplied 105, all the other figures 1400 diameters.
Glands of the first type are represented in all of the figures in Plate I
and figure 16 of Plate II.
The second type of gland is shown in figures 17-20 of Plate II.
Glands of the third type are shown in Plate II, figures 21-25 and Plate
III, figures 26-30,
Plate 7
Fig. 1, Young stalked gland from the head region of a first instar larva.
The duct can be seen as a clear, rectangular space between the two nu¬
clei; the part passing through the cuticula, Cu., to the outside was not
present in this section.
Fig. 2. Gland situated on the posterior part of the abdomen of a very
early second instar larva. Hyp., hypodermis, Cu., cuticula.
Fig. 3. A little older gland at the beginning of its elongation. Its end
is turned towards or away from the observer, hence the darker terminal
region. From the same larva as figure one.
Fig. 4. Gland from the abdomen of a larger larva than any of the
preceding figures. The small secondary duct, Duct', appears at the end
of the larger one, Duct, but it is doubtful if this will show in the figure
after it is reduced in reproduction.
Fig. 5. Gland from near the posterior part of the abdomen of a larva
about the same size as the last. The two ducts, the smaller one Duct', not
Marshall — The Hypodermal Glands of the Black Scale. 271
yet entirely developed, have been drawn slightly wider than they should
be in order that they might show in the figure after it has been reduced
in reproduction. Nu., large terminal nucleus, Duct, larger duct.
Fig. 6. Terminal end of a small duct showing the beginning of the
formation of the bladder. The markings on the bladder are the first
signs of the thickenings of its wall. From a fairly old second instar
larva.
Fig. 7. Another figure of the smaller duct and terminal bladder.
From same larva as figure six.
Fig. 8. A young stalked gland showing its parts already formed but
not of full size.
Fig. 9. The terminal bladder at the end of the small duct, adjacent to
the bladder is the large nucleus.
Fig. 10. View of another bladder showing what are apparently two
large nuclei.
Fig. 11. From an older gland having a single large nucleus near the
bladder. The correct position of the origin of the smaller from the large
duct is here shown as well as the small blind protrusion opposite it on
the rim of the larger duct. Taken from a larva older than any of the
preceding.
Fig. 12. An older gland showing a group of nuclei around the smaller
duct. These are the nuclei of the row of cells surrounding this part of
the gland and which can be seen, often imperfectly in sections, in these
glands of the mature insects. In these last two figures the markings on
the wall of the bladder are more regular than they appear in the speci¬
mens.
Fig. 13. The bladder of a still older gland. Part is shown cut away
and below this opening is the small outlet of the duct, Od., towards which
many of the thickenings on the bladder’s wall are directed. From a
nearly mature insect.
Fig. 14. Showing the duct, Duct, of a stalked gland passing through
the cuticula, Cu., of the body wall on the outer surface of which is a mass
of secretion, Scr., exuded by the gland. From a mature insect.
Fig. 15. The stalked gland of a mature insect. The large terminal
nucleus is shown, also the few others around the smaller duct where in
these fully developed glands there is a layer of large cells. The bladder
is shown in section with the thickenings at its edge, each a section of a
strand, formed by the cuticular lining of the bladder. The correct origin
of the small duct from the rim of the larger one is shown as well as a
secretion which fills the entire duct and protrudes from its opening to the
outside.
Plate 8
Fig. 16. Section showing a small portion of the lateral margin of the
body of a black scale. The dorsal wall above shows some of the glands
described in the first part of this paper. In the body cavity are seen a
number of the stalked glands only one of which shows its opening to the
outside.
Fig. 17. Spinneret from a mature black scale.
272 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 18. Young gland of the second type. The enlarging hypodermal
cells are shown, also the peculiar outlet or pore which is characteristic of
this type of gland. From an old second instar larva, near posterior end
of abdomen.
Fig. 19. A probable fully developed gland of this type. From near
the genital orifice of a mature insect.
Fig. 20. Surface view of the sieve-pore of one of these glands, also of
the spinneret. Within the genital orifice of a mature insect.
Fig. 21. Very small and young gland of the third type from what is
probably a young second instar larva.
Fig. 22. Another very small gland from a young larva preserved a
few hours after it has emerged from the egg.
Fig. 23. Gland from an old second instar larva. This shows the large
nucleus, which with a number of smaller ones, can be found in all speci¬
mens. Very faint traces of strands within the bladder were present but
these have not been drawn.
Fig. 24. Gland from a first instar larva. The secretion is shown in
the faint, irregular strands within the bladder.
Fig. 25. Gland from a second instar larva. The bladder is propor¬
tionally very large to the size of the gland, in this specimen it is empty.
Plate 9
Fig. 26. Gland from a first instar larva. This gland is also very
large in proportion to the size of the insect, it is near but not at the lat¬
eral margin and its diameter is almost one-half that of the dorso-ventral
diameter of the insect at this place.
Fig. 27. Bladder of a gland taken from an old first or young second
instar larva. This shows the arrangement of the secretion somewhat
similar to preceding specimen.
Fig. 28. Gland from an old second instar larva showing the tendency
of the strands of secretion to end at the outlet of the duct.
Fig. 29. Gland from a mature insect. The irregularity of the bladder,
the vacuoles in the protoplasm and the disintegration of the nucleus are
at once noticed.
Fig. 30. Diagram showing the thickening of the wall of the bladder
around the pore.
Fig. 31. An odd gland not fitting in with any of the other types. The
gland itself is similar to those of type but has a different opening to the
outside.
Fig. 32. Surface view of the opening of a gland similar to that shown
in preceding figure.
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WISCONSIN HERPETOLOGICAL NOTES
T. E. B. POPE^
Quite recently there has been discovered in the reference li¬
brary of the Milwaukee Museum a series of articles prepared
by I. A. Lapham of Milwaukee, published in 1852, entitled
''Fauna and Flora of Wisconsin''^ that includes a list of twenty
species of reptiles and amphibians that have been "actually ob¬
served” by him or "communicated” to him by "competent per¬
sons”. This list of Wisconsin reptiles and amphibians, brief
though it is, antedates the more extensive list of Dr, P. R. Hoy^
by thirty-one years and extends our published record of many
species backwards for seventy-seven years. The nomenclature
employed at that time for the various species diifers greatly
from that now adopted. For instance, of the sixteen genera
shown in Lapham’s list only four have remained unchanged,
viz: Crotalus, Diadolphis, Storeria and Rana. Specific names
appear to have survived the years much better than the generic
for thirteen out of the twenty are still in use. Only five spe¬
cies have the entire name^ — ^both generic and specific terms—
unchanged, viz : Diadophis punctatus, Storeria dekayi, Storeria
occipitomaculata, Rana palustris and Rana sylvatica. The list
of the birds of the state was prepared by Dr. Hoy with asterisks
indicating those species known to nest within the state. In
the list of the mammals prepared by Dr. Lapham, the asterisks
preceding certain species indicate, according to a footnote on
page 337, that "The specimens of the species marked thus are
preserved in the collection of the Nat. Hist. Association, at
Madison.” No explanation, however, appears for the asterisks
preceding the names of eleven species of reptiles and amphib¬
ians and it is therefore assumed that such specimens, if they
existed, were preserved like the mammals at Madison. As to
the record of localities for the twenty species of reptiles and
^ Curator of Lower Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum.
2 Trans. Wis. State Agri. Soc., Vol. II, pp. 337-434, 1852.
* “Catalogue of the Cold-blooded Vertebrates of Wisconsin”, Geology of Wiscon¬
sin, Vol. 1, pp. 422-426, 1883.
18
274 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
amphibians listed by Lapham, it appears that 6 species were
collected or observed at Racine, 10 at Milwaukee, 1 in Grant
County and 3 with no locality given. It is known that Dr. Hoy
donated many specimens to the U. S. National Museum at
Washington and in all probability some of these six species
provide the basis for the records of Wisconsin fauna from
Racine County in the possession of that Museum as shown by
the recent bulletin of the Milwaukee Museum, '‘The Amphibians
and Reptiles of Wisconsin’'.^ A review of the cataloged speci¬
mens from Wisconsin in the possession of the U. S. National
Museum, according to Cope, for both the amphibia® and the
reptiles® shows that such specimens were largely contributed
by Prof. S. F. Baird and Dr. P. R. Hoy. Both appear to have
donated about an equal number of specimens. The name of
Dr. Lapham, however, does not appear. As to the remaining
species no definite knowledge is available as to whether the rec¬
ords of Lapham were originally supported by actual specimens
or only observational in character. Neither the Milwaukee
Museum nor the University of Wisconsin has specimens of the
Banded Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) from Grant County,
yet Lapham has this serpent listed from the locality as Crotalus
durissus and precedes the name with an asterisk. Again, he
lists the Common Water Snake as Nerodia sipedon from Mil¬
waukee, preceding the name with an asterisk. The specimens
of this species in the Milwaukee Museum from Milwaukee
County do not include any specimens either donated by Dr.
Lapham or collected prior to the year 1900. Finally, as to the
Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus) listed as from Mil¬
waukee, but with no asterisk preceding the name, the Milwau¬
kee Museum has no specimens in its collection from such a
locality received at such an early date. Other examples of like
nature could be cited to sustain the belief that the species listed
by Lapham in this paper, exclusive of the items marked as
Racine, were not supported by specimens. If, however, some
or all of these fourteen species were so tangibly evidenced
where are the specimens?
* Pope, T. E. B. and Dickinson, W. E., Bull. Publ. Mus., Milw., Vol. 8, No. 1,
1928.
® Cope, E. D., “The Batrachia of North America”, U. S. Nat. Mus., Bull. 34,
1889.
* Cope, E. D., “The Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America”, U. S.
Nat. Mus. Kept, for 1898, Wash. D. C., 1900.
Pope— Wisconsin Herpetological Notes. 275
It is not the intention of the writer to analyze too rigidly
this intensely interesting list of Lapham’s, but instead to men¬
tion and refer to it only as partial evidence of the following
list of additional distributional data on Wisconsin amphibians
and reptiles accumulated since the publication of the Milwaukee
Museum bulletin on the herpetology of the state. In like man¬
ner certain published records of cataloged specimens deposited
in the U. S. National Museum must be cited, records that were
not included in the list of specimens in the possession of that
institution provided by Dr. Stejneger and which furnished the
basis of the National Museum records mentioned in the Mil¬
waukee Museum bulletin. A few items of species reported by
F. J. W. Schmidt of the Field Museum in '^Copeia'^^ that were
inadvertently omitted from the same bulletin should be referred
to.
The following species of Wisconsin amphibians and reptiles
are hereby reported from counties not indicated in ‘The Am¬
phibians and Reptiles of Wisconsin'' and which are believed to
constitute new distributional data :
A. Species that are represented by actual preserved specimens
in the possession of institutions.
Amphibia
Spotted Salamander (Amby stoma maculatum).
Fond du Lac County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2249.
Collected by Towne L. Miller at Fairwater, Sept. 1928.
Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2301.
Collected by W. R. Spellum near Viroqua, Sept. 30, 1928.
American Toad (Bufo americanus) .
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2272.
Collected by W. R. Spellum at Viroqua. Summer 1928.
Cricket Frog (Acris gryllus).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. Nos. 2298-
2299 (2 spec.).
Collected by W. R. Spellum at Viroqua. Summer 1928.
’ “Amphibians and Reptiles of Worden, Clark County, Wisconsin”, Copeia, No.
154, pp. 129-132, 1926. (This article also includes a few species reported from
Chippewa County.)
276 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Swamp Tree Frog (Pseudacris triseriata).
Washington County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2302.
Collected by W. E. Dickinson at Lake Amy Belle. July
25, 1927.
Racine County. U. S. National Museum. Cat. No. 3859
(7 spec.).
Received from Dr. P. R. Hoy.^
Green Frog (Rana clamitans).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. Nos. 2267-
2270 (4 spec.).
Collected by W. R. Spellum at Viroqua. Summer 1928.
Pickerel Frog (Rana palustris).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2296.
Collected by W. R. Spellum at Viroqua. Summer 1928.
Chippewa County. Field Museum. Cat. Nos. 8230-8236
(7 spec.).
Collected by F. J. W. Schmidt at mouth of Yellow River,
Lake Wissota, Anson Township.®
Reptilia
Northern Skink (Eumeces septentrionalis) .
Chippewa County. Field Museum. Cat. No. 5515.
Collected by W. E. Slagg at Chippewa Falls.^®
Blue Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) .
Trempealeau County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2230.
Collected by Lewis Dartt during museum expedition.
June 1928.
Queen Snake (Natrix septemvittata) .
Ozaukee County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2225.
Collected by Neil A. Euting at Cedarburg on May 1, 1928.
Received alive and killed ten days later at Museum.
Common Water Snake (Natrix sipedon sipedon).
Racine County. U. S. National Museum. Cat. No. 1072
(2 spec.).
Collected in 1853 by Prof. S. F. Baird.^^
* Cope, E. D., “The Batrachia of North America”, Op. Cit., p. 343 (Chorophilus
triseriatus).
® “Copeia”, Op. Cit., p. 182.
^"Ibid., p. 132.
” Cope, E. D., “The Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America”, Op.
Cit., p. 971 (Natrix fasciata sipedon).
Pope— Wisconsin Herpetological Notes. 277
De Kay's Snake (Storeria dekayi).
Racine County. U. S. National Museum. Cat. No. 1858
(2 spec.).
Received from Dr. P. R. Hoy of Racine.^^
Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) .
Racine County. U. S. National Museum. Cat. No. 7281.
Received from Dr. P. R. Hoy of Racine.^®
Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis).
Lincoln County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2313,
Collected by W. E. Dickinson on Aug. 5, 1928.
Massasauga (Sistrurus eatenatus catenatus) .
Walworth County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat, No. 2247.
Collected by R. L. Cobb on Aug. 4, 1928. Milwaukee
Museum, Cat. 2257.
Collected by Miss Mary Bray at Richmond. Sept, 1928.
Western Diamond-back Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox atrox).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat, No. 2293.
Received from W. R. Spellum. Killed near Viroqua on
June 12, 1928.
Banded Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus).
Trempealeau County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No, 2231.
Collected by Towne L. Miller at Mt, Brady on June 10,
1928.
Wood Turtle (Clemmys insculpta).
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2291.
(Shell of).
Collected by W. R. Spellum at Bad Axe River on July 26,
1928.
Blanding's Turtle (Emys blandingii),
Trempealeau County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No.
2245.
Collected by Towne L. Miller during museum expedition.
June 1928.
Map Turtle (Graptemys geographica).
Trempealeau County. Milwaukee Museum, Cat. Nos.
2235-2237.
Collected by Towne L. Miller during museum expedition.
June 1928.
i^lbid., p. 1002.
Ibid., p. 1005.
278 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle (Amy da spinifera).
Trempealeau County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No.
2234.
Collected by Towne L. Miller during museum expedition.
June 1928.
Vernon County. Milwaukee Museum. Cat. No. 2279.
Collected by W. R. Spellum near Viroqua. Summer
1928.
B. Species that are listed or mentioned in recognized scientific
publications.
Amphibia
Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus).
Clark County. Reported by F. J. W. Schmidt. '‘Copeia”,
No. 154, p. 132.
Pickerel Frog (Rana palustris).
Milwaukee County. Reported by I. A. Lapham. '‘Fauna
and Flora of Wisconsin”, Trans. Wis. State Agri. Soc.,
1852, p. 366.
Reptilia
Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon contortrix) .
Clark County. Reported by F. J. W. Schmidt. “Copeia”,
No. 154, p. 132.
Blue Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) .
Milwaukee County. Reported by I. A. Lapham. “Fauna
and Flora of Wisconsin”, Trans. Wis. State Agri. Soc.,
1852, p. 365, as Bascanion constrictor.
C. Species that have been observed by reliable persons.
Amphibia
Mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) .
Green Lake County. A specimen was caught by hook and
line by Neil A. Euting at Princeton Locks on May 21,
1928.
American Toad (Bufo americanus) .
Florence County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Long
Lake on July 7, 1928.
Pope — Wisconsin Herpetological Notes.
279
Leopard Frog (Rana pipiens).
Forest County, observed by W. E. Dickinson at Rat River
on July 7, 1928.
Mink Frog (Rana septentrionalis) .
Florence County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Toma¬
hawk River on Aug. 5, 1928.
Reptilia
Hog-nosed Snake (Heterodon contortrix) .
Trempealeau County. Reported by Towne L. Miller dur¬
ing museum expedition on April 16, 1928.
Smooth Green Snake (Liopeltis vernalis).
Winnebago County. Mr. R. N. Buckstaff of the Oshkosh
Museum had a living specimen that he collected at Fisk
in 1916.
Green Lake and Fond du Lac counties. Reported by
Towne L. Miller on April 16, 1928.
Marquette County. Reported by Towne L. Miller in sum¬
mer of 1928.
Blue Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) .
Marquette County. Reported by Towne L. Miller in letter
of April 24, 1928 that one was killed in Packwaukee
Township near the Fox River. Length 50 inches.
Bull Snake (Pituophis sayi).
Trempealeau County. Reported by Towne L. Miller in let¬
ters of June 11 and June 15, 1928. Two specimens
caught, one released and the other escaped.
Shawano County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson on road
July 3, 1928.
Forest County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Pickerel
Lake on July 5, 1928.
Common Water Snake (Natrix sipedon sipedon).
Green Lake County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at
Green Lake on Aug. 7, 1928.
De Kay's Snake (Storeria dekayi).
Green Lake County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at
Green Lake on Aug. 7, 1928.
Red-bellied Snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) .
Waupaca County. Captured by Charles Koch on May 15,
1927 and held in confinement at the Oshkosh Museum
on May 24, 1927 when the writer visited that institution.
Shawano County. Observed by R. N. Buckstaif in 1927.
280 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis),
Winnebago County. A living specimen, captured by mu¬
seum employees within the county, was held in cap¬
tivity at the Oshkosh Museum on May 24, 1927 when
the writer visited that institution.
Florence County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Tipler
on July 6, 1928.
Jefferson County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson near Jef¬
ferson on July 18, 1928.
Green Lake County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at
Green Lake on Aug. 7, 1928.
Waupaca County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Wey-
auwega on Aug. 20, 1928.
Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina).
Green Lake County. Captured by Towne L. Miller,
George L. Pasco and Edward Steinbring at Dakin Creek.
Reported by Mr. Miller in letter of April 24, 1928 and
supported by photograph. A very large specimen with
carapace about 20 inches long.
Chippewa County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson near
Chippewa Falls on July 31, 1928.
Marquette County. Observed by Towne L. Miller. Sum¬
mer 1928.
Waupaca County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Wey-
auwega on Aug. 20, 1928.
Blanding’s Turtle (Emys blandingii) .
Rock County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson in Western
part of county at some distance from Brodhead on July
18, 1928.
Western Painted Turtle (Chrysemys marginata marginata),
Shawano County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at Ke-
shena on July 3, 1928.
Green Lake County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at
Green Lake on Aug. 7, 1928.
BelFs Turtle (Chrysemys marginata bellii),
Ozaukee County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson near Wau-
beka on June 27, 1928.
Jefferson County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson near
Jefferson on July 18, 1928.
Green Lake County. Observed by W. E. Dickinson at
Green Lake on Aug. 7, 1928.
Pope — Wisconsin Herpetological Notes.
281
Spiny Soft-shelled Turtle (Amy da spinifera).
La Crosse County. Collected by Gilbert Raasch and
Roy G. Blank at West Salem in September 1928. Speci¬
men released. See Milwaukee Museum photograph No.
139202.
Special mention may now be made of certain species ac¬
quired by the Milwaukee Museum, as shown, that represent new
localities, are rather uncommon, or are entirely new additions
to the state fauna.
Four-toed Salamander (Hemidactylium scutatum). Hereto¬
fore the record for this interesting little salamander shows that
the species has only been recorded as from the eastern part of
the state (Racine and Winnebago counties). Mr. W. R. Spel-
lum of Viroqua now reports it as ''common and widely spread
over Vernon County’’, according to several letters received in
the fall of 1928. He states that he had at least ten living speci¬
mens at one time confined in a fish globe and all were doing
finely, active and healthy up to his last report on Dec. 15, 1928.
Glass Snake (Ophisaurus ventralis). It is of interest to
mention the reoccurrence of this species in Marquette County.
In early December of 1928 the Milwaukee Museum received a
fine preserved specimen (Cat. No. 2258) from Dr. George Bush
of Ripon that was collected in September of that year. This
limbless lizard, last reported by Prof. Wagner from the same
county in 1922,^^ still remains as one of the 'uncommon’ reptiles
of the state.
Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus). Walworth
County is now definitely added to the few southern counties
of the state as a habitat for the Massasauga as shown by the
two specimens recently deposited in the Milwaukee Museum
during the last year. Fully a dozen specimens were also cap¬
tured in Columbia County by Mr. Ray Weldon of Portage in
the summer of 1928. Heretofore our earliest record for this
species appeared to be the two specimens (Cat. No. 525) de¬
posited in the U. S. National Museum by Dr. Hoy from Racine
in about 1858, but now we note that Lapham in his list of 1852
includes this serpent from the same locality.
Western Diamond-back Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox atrox).
Wagner, G., “On the Present Status of Ophisaurus in Wisconsin’', Copeia, No.
113, pp. 90-91, 1922.
282 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
The presence of this species in the state of Wisconsin is sup¬
ported by Milwaukee Museum cataloged specimen No. 2293
which consists of a finely preserved head and tail in formalde¬
hyde and the dried skin of the body. This specimen was ob¬
tained from Mr. W. R. Spellum on September 20, 1928. He had
purchased the snake about three hours after its death from an
Italian who had killed it on the morning of June 12, 1928 in a
quarry on Highway No. 56 about five miles west of Viroqua.
The Italian was a workman employed by the Nelson, Mullen &
Nelson Company, road contractors engaged in resurfacing the
highway, and had brought the reptile into Viroqua in order to
collect the bounty offered by that county for rattlesnakes. Mr.
Spellum, who for some time had maintained the existence of
this species of diamond-backed rattlesnake in Vernon County
and who was always on the watch for positive evidence to sup¬
port his assertion, purchased the snake from the Italian work¬
man. Mr. Spellum affirms that the body of the snake was not
spoiled, that the flesh had hardly lost its heat, that only the
head had been crushed in the killing but this he had pressed
back into its original condition as best he could. Immediately
after purchasing the snake he had photographed it with a
kodak, made an excellent plaster mold of the entire reptile
(Milwaukee Museum Mold No. 367), cut off the head and tail,
which he preserved, and finally stripped off the skin and dried
it. The head and tail were cut off and the skin dried because
he did not have a container large enough or preservative suffi¬
cient for the entire specimen in toto. The length of the snake
from the tip of the head to the base of the tail, measured from
the plaster mold, was four feet and nine inches ; the total length
to the end of the rattle was four feet and ten and a half inches.
Furthermore in order to dispel any doubts as to the presence
of this species within the state, it may be stated that about
two and a half months later, three more of these Western Dia¬
mond-back Rattlesnakes were killed on the Hogback Hill on
U. S. Highway No. 61 about seven miles south of Viroqua.
This lot of snakes, one individual of which was said to be a
young one, was killed by workmen or by the steam shovel en¬
gaged in road construction. An affidavit, signed by Mr. Emil
Berg, Superintendent of Construction for the Grant Construc¬
tion Company, to this effect is in possession of the writer. In
this affidavit Mr. Berg affirms that he is well acquainted with
Pope — Wisconsin Herpetological Notes. 283
the differences between the Banded and Diamond-back Rattle¬
snakes. Mr. Spellum states that he saw the tails of these three
snakes which were presented for bounty and of course de¬
stroyed. Thus it appears that the Texas or Western Diamond-
back Rattlesnake has actually been killed in two places near
Viroqua— one specimen, herewith produced, killed in the early
summer to the west of the city and three others, supported by
an affidavit, killed in the latter part of the summer much far¬
ther to the south. This evidence has followed a long period of
suspicion as to the existence of the species in the southwestern
part of the state and which was caused by the many rumors
that came to the attention of the writer. Until the fall of 1928,
however, these rumors could not be verified. Evidently the
Western Diamond-back Rattlesnake has been established in the
state for a number of years, perhaps much longer than we
realize. Mr. Spellum has prepared a list of six residents of
Viroqua County and vicinity who have affirmed that they have
seen or killed this southern rattlesnake and all of whom are
well acquainted with the appearance of the common Banded
Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus), with which form the southern
species has probably been confused. It may be stated further
that the writer heard rumors as to the killing of this species
of reptile several years ago from Grant County, and, according
to Mr. Charles E. Brown of Madison, it is said that the late
Colonel Anderson of that city had remarked that ‘'Isolated in¬
stances of Diamond-backs had been reported along the Missis¬
sippi River but that he had not been able to secure specimens.'’
How the Western Diamond-back Rattlesnake found its way
into Wisconsin we do not know at this writing but it is quite
probable that it came up the Mississippi River on either the
Illinois or Iowa side. This river offers an excellent and easy
means of entrance into the state. This fact is recognized by
Prof. Wagner in his article on the “Status of Ophisaurus in
Wisconsin", when, commenting on the presence of that lizard in
Marquette County, he remarks, “There is evidence that this
stream (Wisconsin River) and other tributaries of the Missis¬
sippi have been the highways of invasion for a number of spe¬
cies of more southern vertebrates into Wisconsin."^® However
that may be, we do have many instances of both plants and
15 Ibid., p. 91.
284 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters.
animals that have entered and established themselves success¬
fully in the state-forms that formerly were only known from
far southern regions. Mr. Frank E. Ellis of Maquoketa, Iowa,
a collector of local note, writes in a recent letter, “Some of the
natural southern live things have in recent years migrated to
Iowa and seem to be doing fine, at least in this community.
For instance, the opossum has become recently very plentiful.
The Cardinal Grosbeak has become about as common here as
robins. For the last eight years a nice community of real
southern, and I might add eastern mocking bird, has been es¬
tablished about four miles out in the country.’' There is thus
observed a plain case of parallelism between reptiles and other
branches of vertebrates in this respect. Again, the topography
of Vernon County and vicinity, as a result of geological condi¬
tions, offers a very favorable habitat for rattlesnakes.
Wood Turtle ( Clemmys insculpta). The finding of a fine liv¬
ing specimen of this species at the Bad Axe River in Vernon
County on July 26, 1928 by Mr. W. R. Spellum supports the
belief that this uncommon turtle is widely distributed over the
state, even though it is not frequently recognized or collected.
Heretofore our record shows it to be found in the northwestern,
central and eastern counties. This capture represents a south¬
western locality. Mr. Spellum reports that this specimen was
a female containing twenty-one eggs and that the flesh was of
a yellow color similar to that of the plastron. This capture is
now evidenced by a complete, perfect shell, Milwaukee Museum
Cat. No. 2291.
A SECOND REPORT ON SOLAR RADIATION AND
INLAND LAKES
E. A. Birge and C. Juday
Notes from the Biological Laboratory of the Wisconsin Geological and
Natural History Survey. XXXIX
Contents
Introduction - 285-290
Apparatus - 286
Methods and computations _ _ _ _ _ 288
Typical transmission curves from six lakes — - - 290-302
Table 1, characteristics of lakes - - - - 291
Table 2, behavior toward light _ _ _ _ 292
Discussion of curves - - - - - 294
Comparison of lakes - - - - - - - - - - 294
Intermediate region and “average transmission’’ - 297
Variations of average _ 298
General statement - - - - - - - - 300
Observations of 1929 compared with those of earlier years - 302-306
Table 3, statistics of lakes _ _ _ 305
Table 4, classification of lakes by transmission - - _ - 305
Comparison of southeastern and northeastern lakes _ 306
Transmission through light filters _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 307-334
Methods _ _ _ 307
Characters of light filters used _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 308
Table 6, statistics of light filters _ _ 308
Table 6. limits of spectral colors _ _ _ 308
Light filters and solar energy spectrum _ _ _ 310
Table 7, per cent of energy transmitted by filters _ _ _ 310
Changes in energy spectrum _ _ _ _ _ 311
Observations and time required for them _ _ _ _ 312
Data ___, - - - - - - - - 313
Object and limitations of study _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 314
Transmission in upper meter _ _ _ 314
Results — general _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 31 5_3 1 7
Table 8, transmission of total and of colors _ _ _ 315
Behavior of the several filters _ _ _ _ _ 317-321
Total and colored radiation in the lakes _ _ 321-327
Comparison of total and the several colors _ _ 327
Table 9, transmission of colors and that of total _ _ _ 327
Transmission in single lakes _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 327-333
Conclusion _ ___, _ _ _ _ _ 333
Literature cited _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 334
286 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Introduction
This paper deals with solar radiation delivered to a unit of
horizontal surface at various depths in the lakes of the High¬
land Lake District of Northeastern Wisconsin. It continues
and enlarges the subject reported upon in an earlier paper
(Birge and Juday, ^29). The present paper consists of three
sections :
1. Typical transmission curves.
2. Observations of 1929 compared with those of earlier years.
3. Transmission of radiation which has passed through light
filters.
Most of the work of 1929 was given to the last section of this
report— “R preliminary study of the transmission in lakes of
radiation passed through light filters. As large a number of
series of observations as practicable was obtained in order to
cover the range of variation in the lakes. Altogether 47 series
were made in 36 different lakes, besides numerous experimental
readings. The work was favored by the weather of the sum¬
mer; observations were made on 29 days between June 28 and
August 29; and there were two or three other days on which
this work would have been possible. Thus about one-half of
the days were favorable ; a much larger number than was found
in 1928. The necessity of securing a large number of series
led us to begin observing at an earlier hour of the day than had
been our custom in former years. We began as early as 9 a. m,
or even at 8 :30, while before we did not start work before 9 :30
or 10 a. m. This fact has made the value of cos r as low as
0,85 or even less in extreme cases.
The pyrlimnometer used in 1929 was a new instrument. Its
thermal element is a large surface Moll thermopile made by
Kipp and Sons, of Delft, Holland, With this thermopile and
with the most sensitive millivoltmeter, radiation can be followed
until it is reduced to about 0.1 per cent of its value at the sur¬
face, in much the same way that earlier instruments followed
it to 1.0 per cent. The mounting of the thermopile is also new
and is illustrated in fig, 1, which may be compared with the
figure of the former apparatus shown in Birge '22, pi. 39, figs.
3, 4. The main difference in the mounting is in the shutter or
carrier of the light filters. In the present pyrlimnometer this
Birge & Juday— Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 287
is a brass plate, about 18 cm. in diameter, having five large
openings which may be left open or may hold opaque discs or
light filters. The shutter rotates on its axis and is operated by
Fig. 1. Pyrlimnometer, pattern of 1929. The Moll thermopile is seen
in the free opening of the shutter. The next opening of the shutter, that
at the back of the figure, carries the opaque disc; the following openings
carry the blue, red. and yellow light filters. The operating cord is seen;
a pull on this will revolve the shutter and bring the opaque disc above the
thermopile. The catch of the shutter is seen at the left, and in the edge
of the shutter are seen the notches by which it is stopped and held in
place when moved forward. Diameter of shutter, 18 cm. ; length of frame
50 cm.
288 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
one cord. When this is pulled the shutter is released and moves
forward through one-fifth of a revolution; it is then stopped
and fixed in place with the center of the new opening or light
filter over the center of the thermopile. The detailed descrip¬
tion of the instrument is deferred to a later paper, since it is
proposed to change some of its details before the season of
1930. Probably a new shutter will be installed, carrying a
larger number of openings for light filters, etc. In its present
construction the apparatus was wholly satisfactory during the
summer of 1929. It was regularly operated by two persons:
Mr. Birge handled the thermopile and Mr. H. C. Baum read
and recorded the millivoltmeter.
In this paper nothing is said about the quantity of energy
recorded either in the total radiation or in the several colors.
In the discussion of total radiation in sections 1 and 2 of the
paper, energy is recorded as a percentage of that delivered to
the surface. This is the base for computation and is placed as
equal to 100 per cent. In section 3, which deals with the col¬
ors, the base is the radiation present at the depth of one meter
below the surface. This matter is further discussed on p. 314.
Little use is made in this paper of the percentile values,
which can always be seen in the diagrams. The main interest
of the paper turns on the transmission of radiation through
the water of the lake. The term transmission is employed as
in our former paper (Birge and Juday, ’29, p. 511). As the
radiation from the sun penetrates the water of lakes part is
converted into other forms of energy and part goes on as radia¬
tion. Transmission refers to the rate of change in the quantity
of energy which thus continues on its way. If the rate of
change is small transmission is high; in the opposite case it is
low. When transmission is given a numerical value the term
relates to the passage of radiation through a stratum of water
of standard thickness- — in this paper, one meter. The number
assigned to transmission is the ratio between the swings of the
needle of the millivoltmeter when the thermopile is exposed first
to radiation at the upper surface of the meter stratum and then
exposed at its lower level. If the swing of the millivoltmeter
for a reading at 2 m. below the surface is 38 divisions of the
scale and is 26 divisions when read at 3 m., the transmission
thus indicated is 26/38 or 68.4. This result is the observed
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 289
transmission which must be reduced to transmission at zenith
sun for final use in the paper.
The methods of handling the observations are essentially
similar to those reported in our former paper (pp. 514-520),
with one exception, which is noted below. They may be sum¬
marized as follows :
1. All observations are made in direct sunlight and all radia¬
tion is treated as direct, not as diffuse.
2. Corrections for the glass cover of the thermopile are the
same as those used before (p. 515).
3. The value of the cosine of the angle of refraction of the
direct radiation is computed for the mean altitude of the sun
during the observations.
4. All observations are adjusted for zenith sun, as in the
former paper (p. 517) ; but the method of computation is dif¬
ferent. The method of adjustment reported in that paper is
evidently approximate, but was sufficiently close for the depths
of water and the quantities of radiation handled in that paper.
The method is not applicable to data from complete series in
lakes with marked decrease of radiation near the bottom. The
method of adjustment employed in the present paper depends
on a formula which was worked out for us by Professor H. W.
March, of the department of mathematics, University of Wis¬
consin. This is another instance of the efficient help that he
has given to us. The formula is as follows :
Log a^ = log A — cos r (log A — log a)
In this formula, A = base of computation ; in this case taken
as 100 per cent.
a = per cent observed at any given depth.
ai== per cent adjusted for zenith sun.
cos r = cosine of angle of refraction of direct rays of
sun, corresponding to altitude of sun at time
of observation.
In practice this computation is worked out graphically for the
most part. The per cent observed at any depth is platted on
semi-logarithmic paper ; the distance in millimeters is measured
from this point to the line indicating 100 per cent; this number
is multiplied by cos r ; the product is the distance in millimeters
on the same coordinate paper from the line of 100 per cent to
10
290 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
the per cent adjusted for zenith sun. All observations in the
present paper have been adjusted in this way.
The two methods give identical results when the transmis¬
sion is uniform from meter to meter, as in the middle portion
of energy curves. Where the transmission is increasing rap¬
idly the new method yields a higher corrected per cent; where
transmission is rapidly decreasing the results are lower. The
practical difference between the two methods in the cases re¬
ported from our lakes is that the per cent of total radiation
found at one meter depth may be raised from 1 to 3 points;
the value of the mean transmission below is slightly raised,
but so far as noted not so much as one per cent. Such differ¬
ences in transmission lie within the range of variation to be
expected in any lake from day to day and even from hour to
hour. There is no reason for recomputing the data of our
former paper ; they may be compared directly with those of the
present paper.
At the bottom of the lake the case is otherwise, since the
differences between the methods increase with depth at which
the decrease in transmission is found. The extension of ob¬
servations to this region called attention to the necessity for a
change of method.
1. TYPICAL TRANSMISSION CURVES
The observations reported in our earlier paper (Birge and
Juday, ’29) showed the transmission of solar radiation in the
surface meter and in those immediately below, to a maximum
depth of 10 m. and to a minimum amount of one per cent of
the radiation incident on the surface. These results, therefore,
indicated the transmission through the surface stratum and
through the whole or part of that middle region of a lake where
transmission is approximately uniform from meter to meter.
They did not extend far enough to show the transmission in the
hypolimnion and especially the changes in transmission near
the bottom of the lake, due to accumulating suspended material
or seston^ in the water and to increasing color. This informa-
^ The term seston was introduced by Kolkwitz in 1912 as a name for that par¬
ticulate material which can be removed from water by a net or sieve. It was
extended by Naumann in 1924 to cover all such material suspended in the water,
whether removable by net, by centrifuge, or by filter. It includes plankton, or¬
ganic debris, and non-living particles, such as fine grains of silt. Its presence pro¬
duces turbidity in water.
Birge & Juday—Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 291
tion can now be supplied for six lakes, ranging in depth from
8,5 m, to 20 m., in which observations extended to the bottom
or to within about a meter of the full depth.
The main facts relating to these lakes and to the observations
on them are summarized in tables 1 and 2.
Table 1. Characteristics of lakes whose complete transmission curves
are shown
1
Lake
2
L’gth
km.
3
Area
ha.
4
Max.
depth
m.
Co
5
lor
6
Cond.
7
Trp.
m.
8
Epi-
limni
on
9
Plkn.
p.p.m.
10
Org.
C
p.p.m.
11
CO2
p.p.m.
Surf.
Bot.
Crystal _
1.00
37
21.0
0
Tr.
9.4
12.2
9.0
0.37
1.70
1.75
Day _
1.22
52
16.0
b
27
12.3
9.2
5.5
0.58
3.22
1.25
Diamond. _
1.12
31
11.5
0
16
12.5
10.5
8.0
0.37
1.24
1.00
Finley _ _ _ _
0.93
60
8.5
0
10
13.3
6.1
6.0
0.81
4.62
2.60
Hillis _
0.30
9
9.0
b
35
13.0
6.9
6.0
0.65
2.62
0.75
WeW, _
0.66
16
14.1
0
8
9.3
10.7
7.6
1.13
2.64
1.75
Notes
Col. 2. Hillis Lake is not surveyed; length is estimated.
Col. 6. Color is measured on the U. S. G. S. or platinum cobalt scale.
Tr. = trace; b= less than 8.
Col. 6. Conductivity is stated in reciprocal megohms of resistance.
Col. 7. Trp. gives the transparency; that is, the depth at which Sec-
chi’s disc, 20 cm. in diameter, disappears.
Col. 8. This gives the thickness of the epilimnion in meters. The bottom
of the epilimnion lies in the meter or half-meter below the depth stated.
Col. 9. This gives the weight in milligrams of the dry organic matter
in the centrifuge plankton from one liter of water.
Col. 10. This gives the weight in milligrams of the dry organic carbon
in the dry residue from one liter of water. The total organic matter in
the residue is about 2.1 times the carbon.
Col. 11. This CO2 is that in combination with the carbonates, chiefly
calcium and magnesium.
Cols. 6, 9, 10 and 11 refer to the surface water.
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Table 2. Transmission of the six lakes
1
Lake
2
Date
3
Hour
4
Depth
6
Cos
r
6
% atl
m.
Mean %
trans.
7
Meters
8
1% at
m.
Crystal _
vii , 23
11:15-12:30
19
90
34
83
1-15
18.3
Day. _ _
viii, 26
1:45- 2:15
15
86
32
75
1-10
12.0
Diamond. _
vii , 25
9:00- 9:45
11
85
33
85
2- 9
12.5
Finley. _
vii , 19
11:35-12:20
8
95
29
69
1- 6
7.4
Hillis _
vii ,‘16
2:40- 3:30
8
88
35
70
1- 5
7.7
Weber _
viii, 23
2:00- 3:06
14
83
36
75
1-11
13.1
Col. 4. This gives the depth to which reading extended.
Col. 5. This gives the value of the cosine of the angle of refraction,
used in adjusting for zenith sun.
Col. 6. This gives the per cent of incident radiation which was found
at the depth of one meter.
Col. 7. This gives the average per cent of transmission in the inter¬
mediate region and the extent of that region. See pp. 296-299.
Col. 8. This gives the depth at which was found one per cent of the
radiation incident on the surface of the lake. In the case of Diamond
Lake this is computed, as the depth is below the bottom of the lake.
Table 1 shows that all of these lakes contain very soft water,
as is indicated both by the low conductivity and the fixed carbon
dioxid. The former shows the effect of the total electrolytes,
whose quantity may be roughly estimated at the number of
milligrams per liter equal to three-fourths of the number in¬
dicating the conductivity. The fixed carbon dioxid is mainly
determined by the amount of calcium and magnesium carbonate
in solution. The lakes belong to a type very frequent in this
district, although apparently not common elsewhere. They are
lakes with neither inlet nor outlet, fed by the rain water fall¬
ing on the lake and on its immediate environment. They lie
in a sandy region, from which there is practically no run off
from the surface in summer, so that all water which enters the
lakes from the surroundings passes through a sand filter before
reaching them. Such lakes contain an amount of dissolved
solids far smaller than that contained in neighboring lakes
which are fed by springs or affluents. The amount may be as
small as one-tenth of that found in closely adjacent lakes of the
other type. There is little organic matter in the water,
whether as plankton cells, as particles of organic debris, or as
dissolved organic material. The color is low, the surface water
showing little or more commonly no stain due to extractive sub-
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 293
Per Cent
Fig. 2. Crystal Lake, Aug. 23, 1929. This is a “blue” lake, or per¬
haps, greenish blue; water free from stain as measured by the platinum-
cobalt scale; plankton, small in quantity; transparency, great. Tempera¬
tures and transparency (Trp) are indicated on the left side of the dia¬
gram. Larger circles near main line indicate percentile value of the ob¬
served radiation, that received in air being 100; smaller circles indicate
per cent with zenith sun. Dots covered with an inverted V indicate per
cent observed on Aug. 7. Observations on Aug. 23 were limited by
length of cable attached to pyrlimnometer ; total depth was about 20 m.
Note rise of transmission between 8 and 10 m. and subjacent fall to aver¬
age. Note also slight decrease of transmission below 13 m. and rapid
decrease below 18 m.
At the right side of the diagram are platted the mean transmission
curves shown by radiation transmitted through light filters. For these
the base or 100 per cent is the reading of total radiation and of each
filter at the depth of one meter. Curves are not continued to full depth
of observation, but are inserted to indicate relations of color curves with
the main line of transmission in the several lakes. See discussion in
part 3 of this paper; see also explanation of letters, fig. 12.
294 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
stances, but in most of the lakes the bottom water shows a
marked color in the summer, quite great enough to affect trans¬
mission in that region.
The transmission curves for the six lakes are shown in figs.
2-7. Each curve when platted on semi-logarithmic paper, has
the form of a sigmoid curve, the upper end being concave
downward and the lower end concave upward. It should be
noted that no attempt is made to show changes in transmission
in the upper one-half meter of the water.
The upper end of the curve shows a low transmission which
increases rapidly through the upper meter. This low transmis¬
sion in the upper centimeters of the first meter is in large part
due to the presence of infra-red and lower red radiation whose
transmission in water is very small. As this part of the spec¬
trum is absorbed, the transmission of the remainder^ — chiefly
composed of the visible spectrum-rises rapidly. This effect is
mainly due to the relation of radiation and water and is present
in all lakes. A variable factor also frequently found in the
upper meter is the presence there of a larger amount of seston
than is found in the strata below.
The lower end of the curve shows a decreasing transmission,
which depends mainly on obstruction to radiation offered by
the increasing amount of seston as the bottom is neared, and
also in some cases by the increased color of the water.
These two parts of the curve are connected by an inter¬
mediate region in which the average transmission is nearly uni¬
form. This region begins at the depth of one or two meters
below the surface — the exact depth in such lakes as these de¬
pending on the relative amount of seston in the upper water.
It ends where the decrease of transmission becomes obvious in
the deeper water. Its extent and its regularity are subject to
great variation in the different lakes and also within each of
the lakes. These matters will be discussed later, but at present
it is enough to say that this region gives the general character
to the transmission of the lake and to its biology, so far as this
depends on the sun.
The transmission in the upper meter of these six lakes shows
but little difference, the value of radiation at one meter ranging
from 27 to 33 per cent of that delivered to the surface. This
uniformity depends on the facts that the lakes have very trans¬
parent water and relatively little plankton. Thus the main
Birge <& Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 295
factor affecting the transmission in this stratum is the opacity
of water to infra-red and red radiation. The transmission is
accordingly high ; but it may be noted that in 1929 no transmis¬
sion found in the upper meter equalled those observed in earlier
years. Crystal Lake, for instance, has been found to have
•0.2 0.3 0,4 06 0.8 1.0 1.5 2
Per Cent
3 4 5 6 ,7 8 9 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. 3. Day Lake, Aug. 26, 1929. The color lines come from observa¬
tions on July 29, when transparency was the same as on the later date.
Note increased transmission below 6 m. with return to mean; rapid reduc¬
tion of transmission below 10 m. The total depth was about 16.5 m. At
14 m. the index of the millivoltmeter moved about one division of the
scale; at 15 m. there was a slight response, too small to measure. The
color is recorded as “less than 8” at surface, and 27 at 15.5 m.; centrifuge
plankton at surface 0.58 p.p.m. of dry organic matter; at 15.5 m. 1.61
p.p.m. Thus transmission in bottom water is checked both by color and
by seston.
nearly or quite 40 per cent of incident radiation present at one
meter (Birge and Juday, '29, p. 562). The lower transmission
in 1929 was no doubt due to unusual rains in the earlier part of
the summer, which raised the level of the water of the lakes
above the sand margin and brought it into the grassy bank.
296 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
In only one of the six lakes, Diamond, (fig. 4), did the plankton
in the 2-3 m. stratum offer a noticeably greater obstruction to
radiation than was found in the meters immediately below.
Thus these lakes are much alike in the upper meter; below
that stratum they differ and they fall into three groups of two
lakes each. The average value of the transmission in the inter¬
mediate region of Finley Lake is 69 and is 70 in Hillis Lake.
Per Cent
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 iOO
Fig. 4. Diamond Lake, July 25, 1929. This is a case of a small lake
with very transparent water, and with a hypolimnion of small volume,
which consequently has a considerable amount of seston. The dry or¬
ganic matter in centrifuge plankton was 0.30 p.p.m. at surface and 0.93
p.p.m. at bottom; color was zero at surface and 16 at bottom. The low¬
est reading was about one-fourth meter above the bottom.
In Day and Weber lakes it is 74 and 75; and Crystal and Dia¬
mond lakes have respectively 83 and 85. Thus the first named
lakes have a transmission not infrequently shown by lakes both
in the northern and the southern parts of Wisconsin; it may
commonly be found in almost any fairly deep oligotrophic lake
and may be nearly reached by lakes with abundant plankton,
like Lake Mendota, at times when the quantity of the plankton
is relatively small. The transmission of Day and Weber lakes
is higher than that shown by any southern lakes, except Devils,
Marl, and Elkhart, and is only occasionally found in them.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 297
Blue, Clear, and Star lakes in Northeastern Wisconsin are the
only lakes outside of the present list whose transmission has
been found to reach or approach 75, although there are other
similar lakes yet to be visited. The transmission of the third
pair of lakes — Crystal and Diamond— exceeds 80 and may reach
or exceed 85. This is an average transmission attained by no
southern lake and by very few in the north. In 1929 Clear
Lake was the only other lake whose transmission exceeded 80.
It should be noted that the maximum transmission found in
1929 was not as large as in other years. In 1926 Crystal Lake
had a transmission approaching or reaching 90 in the region
below 6 m. (Birge and Juday, '29, p. 559). The lower result
in 1929 was probably due to the same cause as that which low¬
ered the maximum per cent found at the depth of one meter —
the excessive rains in the early summer.
These differences in average transmission in these lakes are
to be attributed mainly to differences in the quantity of seston
rather than to color, in which respect the lakes are much alike.
Table 1 shows that the transparency of Hillis and Finley lakes
is much less than that of the other lakes and this relative opac¬
ity is due to suspended material.
The transmission in the intermediate region is here described
as uniform. The diagrams show that this uniformity is by no
means exact. Accurate measurements will disclose differences
in transmission in every stratum and in the same stratum at
different points and at different times. Such a situation is in¬
separable from the conditions of distribution of seston in the
water. But in general these differences are such that an aver¬
age transmission can be assigned to the region in question.
The situation is easily seen from the diagrams in which the
observed percentages are platted as well as those computed for
zenith sun.
This construction of the diagrams enables them to show the
kind of approximate accuracy which can be assigned to this
average transmission. It would require a very steady sun and
an unusually uniform lake to make the assigned mean quite
certain. Ordinarily the sun is not quite steady and the dis¬
tribution of suspended material in the lake is never perfectly
uniform over such small distances as one meter. Thus the
situation is very commonly such that it would be quite possible
to place the mean value a point higher or lower than that
d\
298 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
chosen. Similar variations are also to be expected in the
average transmission found in series from the same lake taken
at short intervals, during which no observable change has oc¬
curred in the plankton. If longer intervals elapse much more
considerable changes may be found, as is shown by the record
of Lake Mendota (Birge and Juday, ’29, p. 543) . On the other
hand, a lake ordinarily preserves its general character from
week to week and from year to year, as the tables of our papers
abundantly show.
In certain cases very considerable variations are observed in
individual strata. The most conspicuous example in the pres¬
ent series is offered by Crystal Lake (fig. 2) between 8 m. and
10 m. Here for a distance of two meters the transmission ex¬
ceeded 90 and then fell off, so that the average transmission
from 8 m. to 13 m. was the same as from 1 m. to 8 m. This in¬
crease between 8 m. and 10 m. was not due to a momentary
increase of radiation, since the sun was steady in a cloudless
sky. It was not an accident of observation, since it was found
in the transmission of the several colors as well as in that of
the total radiation. It is to be compared with those holes in a
fog on land which are often seen for a few minutes. It was a
temporary matter in this case, since it was not present in a
Per Cent
I 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 OB 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. 5. Finley Lake, July 19, 1929. The temperatures are of Aug. 10.
Transmission of radiation was probably unusually great on July 19, since
on no other date has a transparency been found greater than 4.5 m.
There was a large accumulation of seston in the bottom water. The mil-
livoltmeter read 28 divisions at 7 m., 14 at 7.5 m., and there was a barely
perceptible movement at 8 m., which depth was practically the bottom.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 299
second series of readings, extending to 10 m. and made about
one hour later. A similar transparent stratum was present in
Day Lake (fig. 3), and other cases have been recorded.
The intermediate region in the six lakes under discussion
offers interesting differences, as may be seen from the diagram.
Hillis Lake (fig. 6) hardly shows an intermediate region. In
the lower part of the epilimnion the increase of suspended ma¬
terial reduces the transmission and the decrease is even more
conspicuous in the thermocline. In Finley Lake transmission
is almost exactly uniform from 1 m. to the bottom of the
epilimnion and the intermediate region ends at that level. In
Day Lake (fig. 3) and Weber Lake (fig. 7) transmission is uni¬
form from 1 m. through the epilimnion and into the thermal
regions below it. There is no accumulation of suspended ma¬
terial in the upper levels of the cold water, nor is there any
growth of plankton in the thermocline. In Crystal Lake (fig.
2) a similar condition extends for at least four meters of the
thermocline and hypolimnion, while in Diamond Lake (fig. 4)
transmission begins to decrease after one meter of the thermo¬
cline has been passed. This is correlated with the small thick¬
ness and volume of the colder water in Diamond Lake.
The lower part of the transmission curves also shows inter¬
esting differences. In the small and shallow Hillis Lake the
decrease in transmission begins even before the colder water
is reached and radiation disappears rapidly in the bottom water.
This situation is due in part to increased color in the lower
water (table 1) ; in part to suspended material in the form of
debris; and also to a large growth of Peridinium in the lower
water at the time of observation. There was no growth of
plankton in the lower water of Finley Lake, but the deeper
water of this lake occupies only a small area. In such cases
currents of water collect much debris from the bottom in shal¬
lower water and sweep it into the deeper strata. Day Lake
shows a typical case of transmission continuing unchanged into
the deeper water and then falling off very rapidly as the bottom
is approached. In this case both suspended material and color
play a part (table 1). Weber Lake offers an extreme case of
a different kind. Here the transmission continued almost un¬
changed to the bottom. The deepest reading was made less
than a decimeter above the bottom, which is covered by a
growth of the moss Drepanocladus. In Diamond Lake the
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thickness of the colder water is less than in Day Lake and its
volume is much smaller ; as a consequence the suspended mate¬
rial is denser and offers increased obstruction to radiation
throughout almost the whole extent of the hypolimnion.
Finally, Crystal Lake carries its intermediate region well down
toward the bottom and shows only a small decrease in trans¬
mission as the bottom water is reached. In this lake the bot¬
tom water showed only a trace of color and the last reading was
made about one meter above the mud.
Fig. 6. Hillis Lake, July 16, 1929. Temperatures of July 20. The
hypolimnion in this lake is always stained, colors of 35 to 100 being re¬
corded for the bottom water. The scale reading of the millivoltmeter at
8 m. was 5.5; no visible response at 9 m.; total depth slightly over 9 m.
Note uniform transmission between 1 m. and 5 m, and decrease from that
depth, which is still in the epilmnion. There was a large growth of
Peridinium in the hypolimnion, besides much seston.
The records from these six lakes, together with the observa¬
tions of Oberdorfer on the Bodensee, show that this general
form of the curve is characteristic for lakes whose transmis¬
sion is ‘"high” or near that level. There can be no doubt re¬
garding the form of the curve in the surface meter or of that
in the bottom water. A question may be raised regarding
what we have called the middle region. Is the average trans¬
mission there uniform, in the sense in which we have used the
word, or does it vary so much at different depths that we ought
not to make any general statement? Our readings belong to a
season of the year when irregularity should be at a maximum,
Birge & Juday— Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 301
and are therefore as convincing as any such number can be.
Oberdorfer's observations show a considerable vertical change
in transmission at certain seasons of the year, but an average
which comes well within our term uniform. He is ready to
assign ‘‘average transmission'’ in all cases from 0 m. to 20 m.
Per Cent
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. 7. Weber Lake, Aug. 23, 1929. This lake shows a singularly
uniform transmission with very slight decrease as the bottom is ap¬
proached. This continued transparency may possibly be connected with
the active growth of Drepanocladus on the bottom, with consequent in¬
ability of currents to move particles of mud. The quantity of centrifuge
plankton is always considerable for such a lake. On Aug. 21 there were
1.13 p.p.m. at surface, 0.98 p.p.m. at 8 m., and 0.84 p.p.m. at 13 m. Ordi¬
narily the plankton catches at bottom and surface of the lake are about
equal. The color is usually recorded as zero at all depths, or with very
low reading at bottom. Transmission usually about 76, decidedly lower
than that of the neighboring Crystal Lake; it is probably affected by the
relatively large amount of seston.
His readings went to a maximum depth of 30 m., and his re¬
sults are of the kind that we should expect to find in any one
of our lakes, if we should follow it through the year.
Transmission in lakes of other types, so far as it is influenced
by color, should show the same characteristics; since we find
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that color is ordinarily distributed with much uniformity until
the water near the bottom is reached. Lakes with low color
and much plankton are undoubtedly more variable in the rate
of transmission through strata at different depths. Seston
may cause a marked decrease of transmission in certain strata,
as it did in Marl Lake (Birge and Juday, '29, p. 559) between
8 and 10 m. An equally marked rise is just as possible, though
as yet we have not found such a case. But we should expect
the average transmission for a year or a season to work out
with a fair degree of uniformity in the middle region; such
uniformity that we can assign a characteristic transmission to
this region of the lake.
In deep lakes, such as Green and Trout lakes, we should ex¬
pect the middle of the hypolimnion to show higher transmissions
during summer than strata above or below, because the centri¬
fuge shows that there is less plankton in this region of the
lake. The weight of centrifuge plankton from these depths
may be only one-half, or even a smaller fraction of that found
at surface or bottom. The transmission of light in this region
has never been explored in any lake of this type.
2. OBSERVATIONS OF 1929 COMPARED WITH THOSE
OF EARLIER YEARS
In the case of 17 lakes comparison may be made between the
transmission of radiation observed in 1929 and that found in
earlier years. The earlier observations are reported in Birge
and Juday, '29, pp. 559-563. In that paper no attempt was
made to follow radiation to a smaller value than one per cent
of that incident on the surface of the lake. ^
Most of the observations of 1929 were made in connection
with studies of color transmission and the total radiation was
not always followed to the greatest possible depth. This was
the case in Clear, Kawaguesaga, Lost Canoe, Pauto, and White
Sand lakes. The observations in Weber Lake extended to the
bottom ; those in Crystal Lake ended about one meter above the
bottom; both went into that region where transmission is
diminished by accumulated suspended material. These two
lakes are discussed in section 1 of this paper. In most of the
other lakes the value of the lowest reading is small and the
transmission curve below the depth of one meter is practically
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 303
Per Cent
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 . 6 8 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. 8. Transmission curves for lakes observed both in earlier years
and in 1929. The diagram is to be compared with figs. 3, 4, and 5 in our
earlier paper (Birge and Juday, ’29). Two of the curves in the diagram,
those from Crystal and Weber lakes, are given in full in figs. 2 and 7.
The present diagram includes three logarithmic cycles, extending to 0.1
per cent.
The lakes represent all of the main classes, 1. Lakes whose transmis¬
sion in the first meter is over 30 and is over 70 below this depth — Clear,
Crystal, and Weber lakes. Star Lake, whose transmission in the first
meter is less than 30 and is 74 below, really belongs to the same class.
2. Lakes with high medium transmission — Clear Crooked, Kawaguesaga,
and Muskellunge lakes. In these lakes the transmission in the first meter
lies between 20 and 30 and is between 50 and 60 below. 3. Lakes with
low medium transmission — Adelaide, High, and Wild Cat lakes. These
lakes have a transmission between 10 and 20 in the first meter, and less
than 40 below. 4. Lake Mary is an extreme example of the lakes with
low transmission, since it retains at the depth of one meter only 3.6 per
cent of the radiation incident on the surface and its transmission below
that depth is only 16.
304 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
a straight line when platted on semi-logarithmic paper. There
need be no hesitation in extending it over the short distance
needed to reach the value of 0.1 per cent of the radiation inci¬
dent upon the surface of the lake, i. e., to one-tenth of the value
shown in our earlier paper. The additional depth needed to
reach this value is often less than one meter, rarely more than
two.
The most transparent lakes oifer exceptions to this state¬
ment. In Clear Lake one per cent of incident radiation would
be found at the depth of about 16.4 m. ; and at the average rate
of transmission about 10 m. more would be required to reduce
the value to 0.1 per cent. This depth is so near the bottom of
the lake that we cannot assume that the transmission found
above 12 m. extends so far, and probably the value of 0.1 per
cent would be found above 26 m. In the case of Pauto Lake
one per cent of incident radiation would be found at about
14 m. if the average transmission extends to that depth ; but in
this lake, which is 17 m. deep, much suspended material is
found by the centrifuge in the hypolimnion and any consider¬
able extension of transmission curves is subject to much doubt.
In general, the observations made in 1929 and those from
earlier years have the kind of agreement that would be ex¬
pected. They show that we were warranted in extending the
transmission curves in the diagrams of the paper of 1929 to
the value of one per cent of the incident radiation. They show
also that in many cases the transmission curve continues, prac¬
tically unchanged, until the value of 0.1 per cent is reached.
The last statement holds only for lakes whose depth is such that
the value in question is reached before the bottom water is
approached and before the transmission is correspondingly re¬
duced. It must also be modified for lakes whose hypolimnion
has a small thickness and volume, especially if growths of
plankton are possible in that region. Two cases of this sort
are discussed in the earlier part of this paper.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 305
Table 3. Lakes observed in 1929 and in earlier years
Notes
1
Lake
2
% at
1 m.
3
Trans.
4
1%
at m.
5
% at
m.
6
Trans.
m.
7
Dist.
m.
8
Depth
9
% at
Max.
Depth
10
1%
at m.
Adelaide _ _
12
34
3.5
12
35
1-5
5
0.14
6.2
Clear _ _ _
32
74
12.5
34
80
1-10
12
1.68
16.4
Clear Crooked _ _
31
58
7.5
22
57
1-9
9
0.12
6.6
Crystal _ _
38
81
17.1
34
83
1-15
19
0.41
18.0
Fishtrap _
16
45
4.6
14
37
1-6
6
0.17
4.5
High - -
15
36
3.6
14
38
1-5
4.5
0.21
3.8
Kawaguesaga _
18
40
4.2
21
55
1-7
7
0.38
6.0
Lost Canoe _
21
62
7.4
30
59
1-7
8
0.30
6.8
Mary _
4.7
24
2.0
3.6
16
1-2
2
0.30
1.7
Muskellunge _
27
70
8.2
30
60
1-9
10
0.13
8.4
Panto _ _
34
70
10.9
35
77
1-10
10
2.16
14.5
Plum____ __ _ _
24
62
7.7
21
59
1-5
5
0.30
6.4
Star _
26
65
8.2
29
74
1-10
12
0.30
12.0
Trout _
27
67
8.1
24
63
1-12
12
0.08
8.0
Weber. _ _
34
79
16.3
36
75
1-10
14
0.29
13.1
White Sand. . . .
19
53
5.4
26
56
1-6
7
0.70
6.6
Wild Cat _ _
16
37
3.7
16
34
1-5
5
0.25
4.2
Cols. 2-4. Earlier observations.
Cols. 5-10. Observations of 1929.
Col. 2. Crystal and Trout lakes have mean of all earlier observations.
Cols. 3 and 6. Mean transmission, zenith sun.
Col. 7. Distance in meters over which mean transmission is measured.
Col. 8. Depth of lowest observation.
Col. 9. Per cent of incident radiation found at greatest depth. Not
adjusted for zenith sun and hence differs from results in col. 10.
Cols. 4 and 10. Depth at which one per cent of incident radiation
would be found with zenith sun.
This paper and its predecessor furnish a general idea of the
transmission of solar radiation in 72 lakes, 68 of which are in
Wisconsin. This number is by no means great enough to war¬
rant the assertion of definitive conclusions, but it is so much
larger than the number already on record that a tentative
classification of lakes may be indicated.
Table 4 — Classification of Wisconsin lakes according to transmission
Transmission Southeastern Northeastern Total
Number
Per Cent
Number
Per Cent
Number
Per Cent
Low, 0-30 __
1
4
7
9
8
12
Low medium,
31-50
4
15
10
24
14
20
High medium.
51-70 _
18
67
16
39
34
50
High, 71 and
over _
4
15
8
20
12
18
— _
- -
—
— _
—
- -
27
100
41
100
68
100
20
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Of the four lakes outside of Wisconsin (Birge and Juday,
’29, p. 563) three are in New York and one in Iowa. Three
belong in the high medium class and one (Seneca) just enters
the high class.
The main interest of this table lies in the striking difference
between the transmission of the lakes in the two districts.
Southeastern Wisconsin has many lakes with high medium
transmission and very few below that grade. In this respect
it contrasts sharply with the northern district. This differ¬
ence depends chiefly on the presence in the Highland Lake Dis¬
trict of numerous lakes with deeply stained water, a type which
is nearly or quite absent from the southern part of the state.
A much larger series of lakes from both districts would prob¬
ably show much the same difference. No color higher than 35
on the platinum-cobalt scale has ever been observed in southern
lakes, and this only once. In these lakes suspended material is
the main factor limiting transmission, and lakes like Mendota,
which often have a low medium transmission, have also a great
range of transmission according as plankton is present in
large or small quantity.
In the northeastern lakes stained waters are far more com¬
mon. The color of 477 lakes in this region has been deter¬
mined and 125, or practically one-quarter, have a color of 60
or above ; while 67 or 14 per cent have more than 100. None
of these is likely to have a transmission which exceeds 30, even
when suspended material is scanty. About 12 per cent are re¬
corded as having no color as measured by this scale, and 11
per cent more have colors below 10. Thus another quarter of
the lakes would often have a transmission in the upper part of
high medium or in the grade of high, the position depending
primarily on the amount of seston. These soft water lakes
have a less abundant plankton than is present in the hard
water lakes of the south.
Thus we have reason to believe that the lakes whose trans¬
mission is recorded give a fair picture of average conditions
in their respective districts.
Birge & JudaySolar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 307
3. TRANSMISSION OF RADIATION PASSED THROUGH
LIGHT FILTERS
This section of the present paper reports on the transmission
of visible solar radiation through the water of lakes. It deals
with the transmission of total visible radiation and also with
radiation which has passed through filters representing differ¬
ent parts of the spectrum. In all cases three regions of the
spectrum are considered— blue, yellow, and red. The trans¬
mission of radiation belonging to these regions is determined
and is compared with that of the entire visible spectrum, as
this is represented in the several lakes. For about one-half of
the lakes the transmission of radiation belonging to the region
of the green is similarly studied.
The transmission in lakes of radiation of different wave¬
lengths differs greatly, since parts of the visible spectrum are
transmitted variously by pure water and are also very differ¬
ently affected by stains dissolved in the water and by seston.
It is possible to infer from the transmission something as to
the changes in composition which the light experiences in
passing through the water. But in this paper no attempt is
made to determine the quantity of radiation from each several
region, either in the total energy spectrum or in that present
at different depths in the lakes. This matter is left for future
discussion.
Methods
The light filters
The light filters regularly used in 1929 were Wratten filters,
supplied by the Eastman Kodak Company, of Rochester, N. Y.
Each consists of a film of colored gelatine cemented between
two pieces of optical glass. The filters are 58 mm. in diameter
and are provided with a metal rim.
Four filters were used, three of which were regularly
mounted in the pyrlimnometer and were used on all occasions
and at all depths. The instrument was not constructed to
carry a larger number, and therefore the fourth or green filter
had to be read in a separate series. The following table gives
the most important facts regarding the relation of these filters
to the spectrum.
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Table 5 — Wratten light filters
Limits of Center of
Number Color transmission transmission
47 _ Blue 3900-4200 A 4500 A
58 _ _ _ Green 4800-6100 5200
16 - Yellow 5250-on
26 - Red 5900-on
16—26 _ Yellow 5250-5900 5700
The colors of the spectrum may be variously limited. The
following data come from Landolt and Bornstein, Physical
Tables, 1923, p. 806.
Table 6 — Limits of colors, wave-lengths^
Color Wave-Lengths^
Violet _ 3600-4240 A
Blue _ 4240-4920
Green _ 4920-5350
Yellow _ 5350-5860
Orange _ 5860-6470
Red _ 6470-8100
Thus the range of filter 47 covers the region of blue and filter
58 covers the green in a similar way. The upper limit of filter
16 overlaps the green region a little and extends to the end of
the visible spectrum; filter 26 covers both the orange and the
red, including practically the spectrum from about 6000 A on.
The transmission of these filters in the spectrum between
4000 A and 7000 A is given in the catalogue of Wratten Light
Filters issued by the Eastman Kodak Company, pp. 63-75, and
need not be repeated here. The transmission of radiation of
greater wave-length than 7000 A is not given in the catalogue
and is of much significance in the work on lakes. The Eastman
Company kindly determined the transmission of our filters in
the region 7000 A-8000 A.
All light-filters of glass or gelatine transmit infra-red radia¬
tion. It is therefore not practicable to establish the base for
comparing the transmission in water by readings in air or im¬
mediately below the surface of the lake. Such readings will
^ In our work we have regarded the visible red as ending at 7621 A or the A
line.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 309
include the effect of an unknown quantity of infra-red radia¬
tion in addition to that belonging to the spectral region whose
name the filter bears. The transmission of infra-red radiation
in water is very small ; all of that in the solar spectrum is prac¬
tically eliminated by one meter of water and readings taken
at this distance below the surface of the lake represent the ef¬
fect of the visible spectrum. Thus the readings of filters 47
and 58 at the depth of one meter and below represent radiation
belonging respectively to the regions of blue and green; those
of filter 16 represent the lower part of the spectrum from
5250 A to about 7660 A; those of filter 26 extend from 5900 A
to the same lower limit ; the difference between the readings of
filters 16 and 26 shows the effect of radiation between 5250 A
and 5900 A.
Fig. 9. Normal solar energy spectrum and light filters; air mass, 1.5;
precipitable atmospheric water, 2.4 cm. E-E, envelope, or energy spec¬
trum in air; W-W, spectrum at depth of 1 m. in pure water; B, curve for
Wratten filter No. 47; G, filter No. 58; Y, filter No. 16; R, filter No. 26.
See p. 308. The ordinates for the envelope were kindly furnished to us
in 1916 by Mr. F. E. Fowle of the Smithsonian Institution.
310 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Light Filters and the Energy Spectrum
The quantity of radiation transmitted by the several filters
interests us at present chiefly as determining the depth to
which observations on the spectral regions can be carried, as
compared with the depth to which observations on the total
radiation can be made. Any filter transmits only a part of the
total energy of the spectrum and only a part of that in the spec¬
tral region which it represents. The fraction of the total will
depend in part on the capacity of the filter and in part on the
per cent of total radiation which is contained in the region rep¬
resented by the filter. The first factor is a constant ; the second
depends on the form of the energy spectrum, which, when
measured in air, varies with the air-mass through which the
radiation has passed, with the transmission coefficient of the
air, and with the amount of water vapor, dust, etc., present in
it. For our present purposes it is enough to assume an energy
spectrum fairly similar to one that may frequently be present
in practice and to determine the quantity of energy from this
spectrum which is transmitted by each of the filters.
Figure 9 shows a normal energy curve of the solar spectrum
constructed for air-mass 1.5, corresponding to a solar elevation
of 41.7°; the presence in the air of 2.4 cm. of precipitable
water is assumed; the effect on this spectrum of its passage
through one meter of pure water is determined, using for this
purpose the absorption coefficients of Aschkinass ('95 ). On
this energy curve, thus determined for the depth of one meter,
are platted the transmission curves of the several filters, using
the data given in the Wratten catalogue, pp. 64-70. The area
enclosed by the energy curve is measured and also the areas
enclosed by the curves of the several filters. The result is as
follows:—
Table 7 — Per cent of total energy transmitted by various filters
from spectrum described above
Filter
No. Color Per cent Remarks
47 Blue _ _ 11.6
58 Green _ 12.1
16 Yellow _ _ 44.8 measured to A line
26 Red _ 23.7 measured to A line
16—26 Yellow _ 21.1
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 311
Percentage of Energy Spectrum Transmitted in Lakes by
Filters
This percentage transmitted by the filters under these as¬
sumed conditions may be compared with that actually found
in lakes. As a general statement it may be said that filter 47
(blue) at the depth of one meter in fairly transparent lakes
gave a swing of the millivoltmeter from 10 per cent to 15 per
cent of that caused by the total radiation at the same depth;
filter 58 (green) under similar conditions transmitted 13 to 18
per cent; filter 16 (yellow) from 40 to 60 per cent; and filter
26 (red) gave from 25 to 40 per cent of the total radiation.
In extremely high colored lakes the swing of blue at one meter
might be too small to measure, as is shown by table 8, or it
might be a very small per cent of the total. In such cases
almost all radiation at one meter comes from the longer waves
of the spectrum and filter 16 may transmit more than 80 per
cent of the total and in extreme cases filter 26 may rise to 85 or
even 90 per cent.
From this statement it follows that the maximum swing of
blue under the conditions stated is from 60 to 80 divisions of
the scale of the most sensitive millivoltmeter, while that of
total radiation computed on the same scale, would be 400-500
divisions. The blue radiation can not be followed to so great a
depth as the total, especially as in many lakes blue has the
smallest per cenT of transmission from meter to meter. Thus
in Crystal Lake total transmission was followed to 19 m. and
could have been followed to greater depths, while blue became
too small to read at depths below 15 m. Filter 16 permitted
reading to much greater depths than did either 47 or 58. In
general, blue ‘‘ran ouP’ first ; then green ; then red ; then yellow.
In figures 12-15 the depth is indicated to which the several
colors were read.
Changes in Energy Spectrum in Passing Through
Lake Water
Figure 9 enables us to understand the general course of
transmission in an ideal lake containing pure water without
plankton. The area of the envelope E-E, measured to the A
line, divides at 5600 A into two nearly equal parts. The trans-
312 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
mission of the part toward the blue, including violet, blue, green
and a little of yellow, is very high and nearly uniform. Trans¬
mission toward the longer wave lengths declines rapidly, falling
off from 98 at about 5700 A to less than 9 at 7500 A.
Thus as light passes downward through such water the radia¬
tion that has a wave length greater than 5700 A is rapidly
absorbed and disappears from the energy spectrum. That
from the other half of the spectrum is absorbed very slowly
and not very unequally. Blue, green, and yellow, in such
depths as are found in inland lakes, maintain about that amount
of energy relatively to each other, which they have in the inci¬
dent radiation; the percentage which each contributes to the
total found at any depth, rises as the base becomes smaller by
the elimination of red, and later of orange radiation.
The general effect of suspended matter and of stain in the
water can also be inferred from the diagram. Harvey (’28,
p. 158) has pointed out that the observations of Pietenpol (’18,
p. 575) show that the transmission of short wave radiation is
more affected by seston than is that from longer wave lengths.
The extractive material found in our lakes has a color of yellow
or brown. Thus both color and seston offer more obstruction
to the short waves than to the long ones. Their effect is to
make the blue end of such a diagram as fig. 9 approach the
form of the red end — having a smaller transmission in blue
than in green. In the most transparent lakes, therefore, as
they actually exist, blue, green, and yellow should have about
the same transmission, with blue the smallest, though all of
them are high. As transparency diminishes, blue should fall
off most rapidly ; green, and then yellow, more slowly. Yellow
should come to have the maximum transmission, except in the
most deeply stained waters, in which yellow may be reduced
below orange or even red. The later account of observations
will show how nearly these expectations are fulfilled in fact.
Observations
Each series of readings began with a determination of total
radiation in the air; the same reading closed the series unless
it was broken off by cloud. The first reading in the water was
at the depth of 50 cm. and was followed by readings at 10 cm.
and 25 cm. if the surface of the lake was sufficiently smooth.
Birge & Juday— Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 313
Readings were made at one meter and at each meter below; in
opaque lakes readings were also taken at 1.5 m. and 2.5 m. In
very transparent lakes some of the single meters might be
omitted below 10 m.
A set of readings at any depth involved six readings of the
pyrlimnometer taken in the following order: zero, blue, red,
yellow, open, zero. The order was arranged so that in ordinary
lakes the swing of the millivoltmeter might increase through¬
out the series. The shutter of the instrument had only five
openings so that the transmission of the green filter had to be
read in a separate series.
Under favorable conditions readings could be made rapidly.
In Crystal Lake 10 such sets, involving 60 readings, between the
depths of 10 cm. and 5 m. were made in 18 minutes; in Little
Tomahawk Lake 6 sets or 36 readings were made in 13 minutes.
In general about two minutes intervened between the begin¬
ning of one set and that of the next, which would be one meter
below the first. If cumulus clouds were present so that clear
spaces of sky must be waited for, v/ork was correspondingly
delayed. When the epilimnion had been passed and observa¬
tions were made in the colder water below, it was necessary to
wait until the pyrlimnometer had assumed the temperature of
the water. Under such conditions from 4 to 6 or 7 minutes
were needed for each set. A complete series on Crystal Lake,
extending to 19 m. and including 189 readings of the pyrlimno¬
meter, required 83 minutes, from 11:15 a. m. to 12:38. This
was unusually rapid work; a similar series on Clear Lake, ex¬
tending to 12 m. and 171 readings, required 134 minutes.
Data
The first series of observations was made on June 28, the
last on August 29. During the interval 46 series were made
on 35 different lakes. They extended to depths ranging from
2 m. in the most opaque lakes to 19 m. in the most transparent,
as is shown in table 8. No attempt was made to go below 10 m.
until after August 1. The readings of the pyrlimnometer in
these series aggregated 4435; in addition 716 readings were
made in the course of experiments, such as testing different
types of filters.
314 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Object and Limitations of Study
The object of the study was to ascertain the transmission of
the several kinds of radiation, not the quantity which each con¬
tributes to the total radiation present at any given depth. The
average transmission was the subject of investigation, rather
than the variations in transmission, due to density of seston in
the water and similar accidental circumstances. In interpret¬
ing the readings of color transmission the base for comparison
is the reading obtained at one meter below the surface of the
lake. This is taken rather than a reading in the air or at a
higher level in the water, in order to eliminate the effect of the
infra-red radiation. The transmission of the uncolored radia¬
tion — the “totaF— which is compared with that of the several
colors, is also based on the reading at one meter. Thus all
radiation treated in this part of the report has passed through
what may be regarded as a sort of light-filter consisting of one
meter of water from the lake under observation. The Wrat-
ten filters for the several colors are read as they affect radia¬
tion after it has passed through the first meter of water. This
stratum removes not only the infra-red radiation but also part
of that in the visible spectrum (see fig. 9). The question then
arises : is the transmission of the total visible spectrum in the
upper meter, and that of the several colors, like that which is
found below, so that the transmission curves ascertained for
the deeper water may be extended up to the surface? Or is
^ the transmission in the upper meter decidedly smaller than that
immediately below ?
The answer differs for the different colors, primarily accord¬
ing to the transmission through pure water of the spectral
band in question. If transmission is approximately uniform
through the whole breadth of the band represented in a filter,
the transmission in the upper meter will be the same as that
below, barring accidental obstruction from plankton, etc. This
is the case for the blue filter, the green, and in general for the
yellow band represented by the difference between filters 16
and 26.
If there is a wide difference in the transmission of the dif¬
ferent wave lengths represented in the spectral band, the trans¬
mission in the upper meter must be less than that below. This
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 315
statement holds for the red filter and also for the total radia¬
tion. The situation can be seen from fig. 9.
If stains or other obstructions to radiation are present in
the water and are such as to create a differential transmission
for the parts of any spectral band, the above statements must
be modified in accordance with the facts. For general pur¬
poses no serious error will be made if the transmission curves
are thought of as extending up through the first meter with
the same rate that they have in the second meter: but details
will not be accurately rendered.
Table 8. Transmission of colors, 1929
1
Lake
2
Date
3
D’pth
obser.
m.
4
Trp.
m.
5
Color
6
Cos
r
7
8 9
TRANSMISSI
10
ON
11
Total
Blue
Green
Yel¬
low
Red
Adelaide. _
Aug.
29
5
2.7
35
0.88
35
12
32
40
35
Big Carr _
July
13
8
7.6
0
.94
65
59
76
57
Bragonier _
July
19
4
2.9
45
.92
26
8.5
25
25
Clear _ _ _
July
30
12
9.2
0
.86
80
77
82
84
60
Clear Crooked _
Aug.
19
9
4.3
16
.84
57
45
62
67
52
Crystal. _ _
Aug.
7
15
11.2
0
.90
81
81
85
84
68
Crystal _
Aug.
23
19
12.2
0
.90
83
82
86
84
67
Day _
July
29
12
7.6
0
.87
74
74
79
59
Diamond _ _
July
25
11
10.8
0
.85
85
82
80
68
Finley _
July
19
8
6.2
0
.94
69
62
73
65
Fishtrap _
Aug.
18
6
2.6
22
.90
37
15
31
42
34
Helen. _
July
2
3
1.7
88
.95
24
2
10
23
High _
Aug.
8
5
3.5
10
.85
41
29
45
47
36
Hillis _ _
July
16
9
6.9
4
.88
70
65
71
68
Johnson _ _
July
30
7
3.7
18
.90
58
42
60
66
47
Kawaguesaga _
July
18
7
3.5
8
.94
55
45
66
51
Little Bass.. _ _
July
8
10
7.0
0
.90
75
69
80
60
Little Pickerel. .
July
19
2
1.4
132
.85
8
?
?
8
Little St, Germaine..
July
19
6
2.8
22
.93
42
22
40
42
Little Tomahawk _
July
13
10
6.9
4
.94
75
70
78
67
Long _ .
Aug.
17
6
5.0
18
.89
46
29
51
51
40
Lost Canoe. _
July
4
8
4.4
11
.95
59
47
71
55
Mary _ ...
Aug.
29
2
2.1
118
.85
16
0.4
9
10
18
Midge _ _ _ .
Aug.
15
3.5
2.9
58
.87
24
2
22
28
Muskellunge _ ...
July
18
10
4.4
6
.88
60
55
64
68
52
Papoose _
Aug.
15
9
5.3
20
.85
58
41
64
64
61
Pauto _ _ _ _
July
15
10
8.3
0
.90
77
73
82
62
Plum _
July
19
6
4.7
16
.81
59
47
60
56
Silver _ _ _
July
26
10
6.5
0
.92
69
67
76
60
Star _ _
Aug.
26
13
8.1
0
.86
74
67
74
79
61
Trout _
Aug.
6
12
5.0
6
.92
59
53
68
68
66
Turtle. _ _
July
5
4
1.9
69
.86
23
1.5
23
19
Weber. _ _ _
Aug.
23
14
6.9
0
.83
75
75
84
81
63
White Sand _
July
4
7
3.9
16
.85
56
40
63
54
Wild Cat _
July
29
6
2.5
26
.83
34
17
39
34
Notes on Table 8
Col. 3 states the depth to which total radiation was followed. The
limit was set by various circumstances in different lakes. See p. 311.
Col. 4, transparency, states the depth at which Secchi’s disc disap¬
peared. Diameter of disc, 20 cm.
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Col. 5. Color is measured by the U. S. Geological Survey or platinum-
cobalt scale. This has the advantage of giving a numerical value to
each shade within its range and the color can be accurately reproduced if
desired. It has the disadvantage of applying only to waters stained with
yellow and brown colors. Clear waters with a slight tinge of green — like
Crystal and Diamond lakes — show no color on this scale. Ratings below
8 are estimates based on comparison with the lowest standard color disc
which is 8.
Col. 6 states the cosine of the angle of refraction of the direct rays of
the sun, corresponding to its mean altitude during the observations.
Cols. 7-11. The accuracy of these figures in the most opaque lakes is
less than in those given for the more transparent waters. In general,
transmissions less than 8 are based on readings separated by smaller dis¬
tances than one meter, and in the case of blue, they may come from read¬
ings in the upper meter. The accuracy of such figures is correspondingly
uncertain.
In cases where lakes are so opaque that radiation can be followed for
two or three meters only, there is uncertainty as to the situation in the
lower water. Transmission is surely still very low but it may well be
higher than the figure assigned to the upper water.
Cols. 8-10. In these columns the question mark (?) means that trans¬
mission was zero or too small to measure.
Col. 9. In this column the sign _ _ means no observation.
Col. 10. The transmission of yellow is computed from the readings of
filters 16 and 26. The reading of 26 — the red filter^ — at the several depths
is subtracted from that of 16 — the yellow filter — and transmission is com¬
puted from the results thus obtained.
Average Transmission
The transmission of the several colors is uniform from meter
to meter in the same sense as that in ivhich the word is ap¬
plied to the transmission of the total radiation (p. 300) . It is
subject to many accidental variations, but these are usually
small and an average number can be assigned to transmission
of each color in the same way and with the same limitation of
accuracy as it can be assigned to total radiation. This is done
in table 8; and in the following diagrams the average trans¬
mission is platted for the several colors, without attempting to
show the variations from meter to meter. In both table and
diagrams the observed percentages are adjusted for zenith sun
as stated for total radiation on p. 288.
Results
The general result of the study is shown in table 8, on which
the following discussion is based. Inspection of the table
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 317
shows that radiation was followed to very different depths in
the various lakes. In the most deeply stained waters, such as
those of Mary, Helen, and Turtle lakes depths of only two or
three meters were reached. In such cases the accuracy of the
assigned transmissions is less than in more transparent lakes
where radiation could be observed to greater depths.
There is a general relation between the values of transmis¬
sion of total radiation and that of the several colors, such that
high or low values of one accompany similar values of the
others. But there is no exact correspondence, rather a marked
variation, in such relations. For instance, the transmission of
total radiation in Muskellunge Lake is 60 and in Papoose Lake
it is 58; that of blue in the same lakes is 55 and 41 respec¬
tively. Transmission of yellow in Helen Lake is 10 and in
Midge Lake 22, although the transmission of total is 24 in both
lakes.
Behavior of the Several Filters
Filter U7- — Blue
The center of transmission for the blue filter lies about
4500 A, and therefore near the center of the blue region of the
spectrum. The transmission in water of radiation which has
passed through it has a smaller average value than that of any
other filter and it has the greatest range of variation. In the
most highly colored waters, such as those of Little Pickerel,
Mary, Midge, Helen, and Turtle lakes, very little radiation from
this region remained at one meter's depth and at two meters
there was not enough to give more than a slight indication of
an effect. Under such conditions the transmission was doubt¬
fully computed from readings between one-half meter and one
meter. Little value should be attached to the exact figures
given ; in such waters the determination of transmission of blue
is a matter for the laboratory rather than the field. Prac¬
tically, one meter of such water cuts off the blue.
Pure water transmits radiation of the wave lengths passed by
the blue filter at rates close to the maximum. The situation
disclosed in lakes by the observations means that short wave
radiation is more affected by stains dissolved in the water and
also by suspended matter than is radiation of greater wave
length.
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Filter 58 — Green
Filter 58 was read in only 15 lakes, and the observations are
correspondingly few. They include lakes with high and with
low transmission and probably show the range of this radiation.
The center of the spectral band covered by the filter lies near
5200 A and therefore about half way between the centers of the
bands assigned to the blue and the yellow radiation. The trans¬
mission of the radiation passed by this filter is what would be
expected from its position in the spectrum; it is ordinarily
higher than that of the blue and lower than that of the yellow.
Where the blue radiation has a transmission about equal to that
of the total, that of the green is somewhat higher. In lakes
which have a bluish green color the highest transmission should
come in the region of green. This seems to have been the case
(table 8) in Crystal and Weber lakes; but the number of ob¬
servations is so small that it is not safe to generalize from them.
Filter 16 — Yellow
The range of filter 16 is from 5200 A to the end of the visible
spectrum, and it therefore includes the regions of both yellow
and red.
This filter was used in all observations, but little direct use
has been made of its readings and they are not included in the
table. They have been employed to determine the transmission
of radiation from a spectral region between wave lengths
5200 A and 5850 A, by subtracting the reading given by filter
26 at the successive depths from that of filter 16. The result
is to give the reading of a spectral region whose center is near
5700 A.
The upper limit of filter 16 lies at a point in the spectrum
where pure water transmits 98 per cent or more of incident
radiation and at the lower limit — ^say, at 7621 A — the transmis¬
sion is less than 9. In general the radiation derived from this
filter shows a higher transmission than that from filters nearer
the ends of the spectrum, such as filters 47 and 26. This is
true in spite of the fact that red is included within its trans¬
mission.
In several of the lakes with the highest color, including Ade¬
laide, Bragonier, Little St. Germaine, and others, the transmis¬
sion of radiation from filter 16 was no larger than that of filter
Birge & JudaySolar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 319
26. This situation means that in such lakes most of the radia¬
tion present at and below one meter comes from the part of the
spectrum whose wave lengths are greater than 6000 A.
Filter 26— Red
This filter covers the region occupied by orange and red in
the spectrum. The upper limit of the filter lies close to 6000 A,
where transmission by pure water is 85 ; this transmission rap¬
idly declines as wave length increases and at 7500 A it becomes
less than 9 (fig. 9). Under these conditions the transmission
of filter 26 never rises as high as do those of the others, which
represent regions of high transmission in pure water. The
maximum value observed is 68 in Crystal and Diamond lakes.
This value is much higher than it would be if the filter did
not include orange as well as red in its range. Fig. 9 shows
that if the cut-off of the filter had lain at 6500 A, the upper
limit of red, the maximum transmission would have been lower.
While radiation from this end of the spectrum is more rap¬
idly absorbed by water than is that from the other end of the
spectrum, it is less affected by stain and by suspended matter.
It follows that in transparent lakes the transmission of radia¬
tion from filter 26 is much less than is that from the other
filters; in lakes where stain and suspended matter are at a
maximum the transmission of red may be higher than that of
any other color. It may equal or exceed that of total radiation.
It might be expected that the transmission of filter 26 in the
upper meters would show a progressive increase with greater
depth. But this effect was not observed, although it was looked
for. The observations showed the same kind of accidental
variation as did those of radiation from other filters ; and there
was no case of a definite systematic increase of transmission
with increasing depth.
Filter 16 Minus Filter 26 — Yellow
Figure 9 shows that between the regions of the spectrum
covered by filter 16 and filter 26 there is a region extending
from about 5250 A to 6000 A and with its center near 5700 A.
It shows also that at wave lengths greater than 6200 A there is
little or no difference between the transmission of the two
filters. If the reading of 26 is subtracted from that of 16 the
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0.1 PerCentO.2 0.3 0,4 0.6 0.8 i:0 I.B 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
0.1 Percent i.O 10 100
0.1 Percent 1.0 .10 lOO ,
0.1 Percent l.o 10 lOO
Fig. 10. Transmission of radiation in lakes observed in 1929. See p. — .
Mn, mean transmission; Md, median transmission.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 321
remainder will show the effect of the spectral region whose
center is at 5700 a. This wave length is close to the point of
maximum transmission in pure water. Since the extractive
matters contained in lake waters give colors which are yellow
or brown the transmission of this band is less affected by them
than is that of the blue or even that of the neighboring green.
Thus in very many lakes the radiation belonging to this region
has a higher transmission than that from any other.
In very deeply stained waters the yellow part of the spec¬
trum is cut off as well as that represented by green and blue,
and the transmission of yellow suffers accordingly. Little Pick¬
erel Lake, whose color is 132, shows the maximum effect of this
kind. Here the transmission of yellow was doubtfully recorded
as 6, on the basis of the record between 50 cm. and 100 cm. At
the depth of one meter the swing of the millivoltmeter was 18
divisions of the scale for filter 16 and 17 for filter 26, showing
that practically no radiation was present from the region be¬
tween 5250 A and 6000 A.
Total and Colored Radiation in the Lakes
Table 8 and figure 10 show the general results of the study
so far as the lakes are concerned. The four diagrams of figure
10 give the average transmission curves for total radiation
from each lake and also for each of three colors, blue, yellow,
and red. The number of cases of green is so small that they
are not platted.
Figure 10 has three sets of guide lines : 1. The vertical lines
of the logarithmic cycles, indicating the percentage. 2. The
oblique lines, indicating transmission curves for values from 10
to 90. 3. The horizontal lines, indicating depth in meters be¬
low the surface of the' lake.
The transmission curves start with 100 per cent at the depth
of one meter below the surface, for reasons stated on p. 314.
They are continued to the depth of 6 m. below the surface, i. e.,
through a thickness of 5 m. of water. At this depth the trans¬
mission curves have diverged enough to permit the arrange¬
ment of the lakes along the depth line.
Each of the small circles indicates the average transmission
of one of the 34 lakes examined, either that of total radiation
or of one of the colors. As already stated, this transmission
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is that average found in the middle region of the lake, and is
that stated in table 8. These circles are placed on the lower
line of the diagram, except where transmission is so low that
the curve does not reach this line. The position of the circle
indicates two facts : 1. Position relative to the oblique lines ;
i. e., the transmission curves, indicates the observed rate of
transmission, adjusted for zenith sun. 2. Position relative to
the vertical lines, i. e., the per cent lines, indicates the percent¬
age of total radiation or of one of the colors, which remains
after transmission at the observed rate through five meters of
water. The percentage left after passing through one meter
is that stated as the transmission in table 8.
In figure 10, A, for instance, there is a circle at the end of the
line indicating a transmission of 60. Table 8 shows that this
represents the transmission of Muskellunge Lake. The circle
lies slightly to the left of the per cent line indicating 8 per cent ;
more exactly, it is placed at the point indicating 7.8 per cent,
since with a transmission of 60 about 7.8 per cent of the orig¬
inal value of the radiation will be left after passing through
5 m. of water. No particular interest attaches to these values
for percentages at 5 m., which are derived by computation
from the data given in table 8. They are carried out to this
depth partly to get room for the distribution of lakes in the
diagram, partly also to make evident to the eye the great dif¬
ference in the percentage which remains, even at moderate
depths, from transmissions which are not far apart. This is
especially evident in the low transmissions.
The lakes are arranged in the order of their transmission
and the grouping of the circles shows the different types of
lake. Figure 10 A shows that there are 6 lakes whose trans¬
mission is low, i. e., below 30; an equal number come between
31 and 50; the group with high medium transmission number
13, of which 9 are closely bunched between 55 and 60; there
are 9 lakes (10 cases) with high transmission, three of them
between 80 and 85.
The mean transmission of the whole number of lakes is 54
and the median is about 58. The lakes examined include a
larger number of clear lakes and also of highly colored lakes
than would be found in the whole list of lakes in the district.
The mean transmission for all lakes examined in the region is
about 50.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 323
Blue Radiation
In fig. 10 — ^blue radiation— the distribution of the circles
is quite different from that of the total radiation. There are 12
lakes with low transmission of blue ; 10 are below 25 and 5 of
them so small that the exact value is doubtful. No lakes are
found in the region between 30 and 39 ; then come 9 lakes from
40 to 55 ; these represent the cluster of lakes whose total trans¬
mission is between 55 and 60 in the diagram above. There are
8 lakes at 70 and above, with 6 more between 59 and 69. Thus
blue transmission tends to group at the two ends of the scale,
indicating the strong influence of stain in cutting down this
color, and also indicating the fact that the lakes with unstained
water ordinarily have little plankton. The average transmis¬
sion is 43 and the median is 46, both numbers lower than the
figures for any other color.
Yellow Radiation
In the diagrams both for yellow and for red radiation (fig. 10,
C, D), the circles indicating the lakes show a tendency to ag¬
gregate in the upper part of their range. This fact reflects
the relative absence of sensitiveness to stain and to suspended
matter on the part of these colors. In the case of yellow, fig¬
ure 10 C, there are 15 cases where transmission is above 70,
and 7 more are above 60; thus nearly 70 per cent of the lakes
are at 60 and above. There are 6 lakes with low transmission ;
only one lake between 25 and 40, and that one at 39; only 4
lakes between 40 and 50. The mean transmission is 58 and
the median 67.
Red Radiation
As already stated, the red filter transmits also the orange
radiation. The circles indicating the lakes are crowded to¬
gether at the upper part of the range, just as is the case with
yellow, but at a much lower numerical value. There are 21
cases between 51 and 68 in the region of high medium trans¬
mission; this is nearly 70 per cent of the whole number; 6 cases
show low transmission and 8 are in the region of low medium.
Thus the transmission of red never reaches the range of ‘"high’",
the fact being due to the opacity of water itself to long wave
radiation. The mean transmission is 47 and the median 53.
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Fig. 11. Relation of transmission of spectral regions to that of total radiation. Abscissas indicate transmission of total
radiation; ordinates, that of color. See p. 325.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 325
Transmission of Total Radiation Compared with That of Colors
The transmission reported for the total radiation at any depth
in the lake is necessarily equal to the weighted average of the
transmissions of the radiation contained in the several regions
of the spectrum, from violet or blue to red. In all cases trans¬
mission of some regions of the spectrum is above the average
which constitutes that of the total, and in other regions it is
below. The relation between the transmission of any spectral
region and that of total radiation differs in different lakes, as
the conditions of transmission are different. From these rela¬
tions may be inferred the changes in the quality of the light, as
it passes downward through the water of the lake.
Figure 11 shows the relation between the transmission of
the total visible spectrum through the water at depths below
one meter and that of the several colors of the spectrum. The
figure contains three diagrams whose network is made to over¬
lap in order to bring them on the same page, where they may
easily be compared. In each of the three the transmission of
one of the colors in each lake is platted against that of the total
radiation in the same lake; the abscissas representing the
transmission of the total and the ordinates representing that of
the color. A circle is placed at the intersection of the two lines
for each lake. An oblique line is drawn through each diagram
as the axis. If the transmission of the color in any lake is
equal to that of the total, the circle for that lake falls on the
axis; if the transmission of the color is higher, the circle lies
to the left or above the axis; if lower, it lies to the right or
below. In each diagram a line roughly representing the mean
of the observations, is drawn through the circles. This is not
intended to show a mathematical relation but to furnish a
guide to the eye in reading the story.
Figure 11 shows that the transmission of blue is ordinarily
less than that of total ; occasionally equals it ; but does not rise
above it. In lakes whose transmission of total is 25 or less that
of blue is very small, practically negligible; and in such lakes
blue makes no appreciable contribution to radiation below one
meter's depth. As transmission of total rises that of blue grad¬
ually approaches it, though the average always remains below
it. It becomes nearly equal to that of total at transmissions
of 75 or above. Red at low transmissions is equal to or above
326 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
total; as transmission increases that of red falls below total,
and the disparity increases as transmission goes up. Yellow
starts somewhat below total; soon equals it; rises above it be¬
tween 30 and 40; the excess rising at first and then declining
in the higher orders of transmission, until at 75 and above the
transmission of yellow is approaching that of total from above
as that of blue is approaching it from below.
Thus these diagrams make clear the general story of the
changes in the composition of the sun’s radiation as it passes
through the waters of lakes belonging to the several types. In
lakes with deeply stained water and correspondingly low trans¬
mission, very little radiation which comes from wave lengths
smaller than 6000 A is present below one meter. The contribu¬
tion of blue to the total is negligible; that of green is very
small and rapidly disappears as depth increases; so also does
that from the adjacent part of yellow. As total transmission
rises to moderate values both blue and red also increase, but
the central part of the visible spectrum — about 5500 A — has a
much higher transmission than either end; so that the radia¬
tion after passing through a few meters of water, contains very
little from the blue or the red end, though red contributes more
than blue. The radiation that remains is almost wholly de¬
rived from the central region of the spectrum. In the most
transparent lakes, contributions from the blue increase rela¬
tively to those from red. In such lakes the short wave half of
the spectrum contributes much at all depths, and radiation
from the whole region, extending to wave length 5700 A, is
transmitted through the water at much the same rate.
Two examples may be given. In Crystal Lake at the depth
of 20 m, — assuming average transmission to that depth — blue,
with a transmission of 82 would still retain 1.8 per cent of its
surface value; yellow (transmission 84) retained 3.0 per cent;
while red and orange, taken together, whose transmission is 68,
would be reduced to 0.045 per cent of their value at the surface.
Thus at all depths in that lake, there would be enough radiation
from blue to be effective chemically or physiologically.
In Trout Lake, on the other hand, at the same depth blue
and red (transmission 53 and 55) would each retain respec¬
tively 0.0003 and 0,0006 per cent of their value at the surface ;
while yellow (transmission 68) would still retain 0.045 per
cent. Thus the middle of the visible spectrum in this lake
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes, 327
would retain at 20 m. nearly 100 times as much of its value at
the surface as would be kept by radiation from either end, and
this preponderance of the middle of the spectrum increases
rapidly with increase of depth.
Special attention may also be called to the group of 9 lakes
whose total transmission lies between 55 and 60. In all cases
the transmission of the several colors shows a wider variation
than does that of the total. In yellow and red, the range ex¬
tends over about ten points ; from 47 to 57 in the case of red,
and from 60 to 71 in that of yellow. On the whole, however,
the 9 lakes constitute a well marked group in both colors, one
lake being decidedly below the other 8. The case of blue is dif¬
ferent ; the range is greater, 40-55 and the lakes are scattered
along the range. Table 8 shows that in this group of lakes
there are three whose water has a color of 6 to 8, and six whose
color is 11 to 20. The waters whose transmission of blue is
below 50 belong to the second group. The situation shows how
the transmission of all parts of the spectrum is affected by color
and by seston; but that short wave radiation is much more
strongly affected and especially by color.
The following table shows roughly the relation of transmis¬
sion of total spectrum and that of its parts. The number of
cases is still so small that the results should not be regarded as
finally determined; the table shows the general situation; in¬
creased knowledge may modify details both in the classification
of transmissions and in the range of comparative values.
Table 9- — ’Relation of transmission of colors to that of total radiation; the
transmission of total being taken as 100% in all cases; that of colors
is stated as a percentage of total
Transparency, m. _ 1.4-2.9 2.7-3. 5 3. 5-7.6 6.9-12.2
Color _ 45-132 10-45 0-20 0-4
Transmission of total Low Low Medium High Medium High
8-30 31-50 51-70 71 and over
Total 100% 100% 100% 100%
Blue _ _ _ Very small 50-66 60-90 80-100
Yellow _ ___50orless 100-115 100-117 100-110
Red ________________-100-120 90-100 80-98 70-90
Color Transmission in Single Lakes
The general statements made on the preceding pages are il¬
lustrated by a series of diagrams showing transmission in
328 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
single lakes. These diagrams put before the eye the average
transmission of total radiation, and of the several colors in
lakes representing each type of transmission, by more than one
case. They disclose at a glance the points of general agreement
of lakes that belong in the same group and also some of their
manifold differences. The curves are carried out far enough
to show the differences in transmission and also to bring out
the way in which even a small increase in depth accentuates the
effect of very moderate differences in rate of transmission.
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 ^ 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. 12. Transmission of total radiation and of spectral regions in a
lake with high transmission, Clear Lake, July 30, 1929. M, transmission
of total referred to value of total radiation incident on surface of lake;
T, total, referred to value of total at depth of one meter. Circles indi¬
cate observed per cent; smaller dots, per cent adjusted for zenith sun;
larger circle on each line indicates depth to which observations extended.
As in all cases, green was observed in a separate series of readings; and
the observations were limited by time, not by extinction of radiation.
B indicates blue; G, green; Y, yellow; R, red. See p. 329.
Figures 12-15 show the transmission of color and of total
radiation in individual lakes; figures 12 and 13 give the full
story of transmission, so far as it was followed, in two lakes —
Clear and Clear Crooked. The first is a transparent lake with
high transmission; the second has high medium transmission.
Birge & Juday — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 829
Fig. 15 shows in a similar way the record of five lakes with low
medium and low transmission. Figure 14 gives diagrams from
8 lakes, four with high transmission and four with high
medium transmission. These 8 diagrams are carried out only
through one cycle of the logarithmic paper, or to the depth of
6 m,~8 m., as the rate of transmission may determine.
In each diagram there is platted also the transmission of
total radiation as based on the value of that received in the air.
These are the same curves as those shown for two of the lakes
in figs. 2 and 7. In figs. 12 and 13 the observed percentages
are platted, as well as the result of adjusting them for zenith
sun ; thus is made clear the kind of variation and of regularity
present in the total transmission, which is also found in that
of the colors. In each of the lakes there is placed a larger
circle on each transmission curve to indicate the depth at which
observation ended. In fig. 14 many of the lines pass out of the
diagram before this depth has been reached.
In the observations on colors the reading at one meter is
taken as 100 per cent, both for total and for each color, for
reasons given on p. 814. The reading of total at one meter
and based on the value in air, is considered as 100 per cent and
transferred to the same point as that where the transmission
curves for colors start. Thus a second transmission curve for
total radiation originates at this point and runs parallel to that
extending downward from the value found in the main line at
one meter.
The diagram for Clear Lake (figures 12, 14 B) and those of
figure 14, A, C, D, show the conditions in transparent lakes
with high transmission. The conspicuous features in these
lakes are: 1. The relatively low transmission of red, with its
correspondingly rapid disappearance from the energy spectrum.
2. The close agreement of the high transmission of blue, green,
yellow, and total; that of blue being always less than that of
green and yellow. In Clear Lake the transmission of blue is
distinctly lower than that of total ; while in Crystal and Weber
lakes the two were so close that separate lines could not be
drawn. In the last named lakes green lies below yellow,
though still above total. In Star Lake, where blue is decidedly
lower than in the other three lakes, green coincides with total
just as blue does in more transparent lakes. This situation is
what would be expected in a lake whose transparency is not of
330 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
the highest. Other similar situations could be pointed out in
the diagrams of the figures; but the conditions governing
transmission are so numerous and so variable that more ob¬
servations are needed before general statements are finally
made.
Per Cent
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0 6 0.6 OB 1.0 1.6 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 16 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
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7
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Fig. 13. Transmission curves for a lake with high medium transmis¬
sion, Clear Crooked Lake, Aug. 19, 1929. Letters and signs as in fig. 12.
See p. 330.
Clear Crooked Lake shows a transmission which is classed as
high medium, being about 57 for total radiation. The differ¬
ences between this lake and Clear Lake are due both to trans¬
parency (Clear, 9.3 m.; Clear Crooked, 4.3 m.) and to color
(Clear, 0; Clear Crooked 16). The result is to reduce trans¬
mission of radiation of all kinds, but in very different degree.
Transmission of total is 80 in Clear Lake and 57 in Clear
Crooked, a loss of 23 points or about 29 per cent; among the
colors red shows least difference; it declines from 60 to 52, a
loss of 8 points, or about 13 per cent; yellow falls off about 20
per cent, from 84 to 67 ; green loses 24 per cent, 82 to 62 ; while
blue loses over 40 per cent, since its transmission is 77 in Clear
Lake and only 45 in Clear Crooked Lake. This relation be¬
tween a lake with high transmission and one with high medium
transmission is characteristic for the two groups. It shows
the sensitive response of short wave radiation to both stain and
suspended matter in the water.
332 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts, and Letters,
Figure 14, E-H shows the same general situation in other
lakes with high medium transmission. That of total radiation
is between 55 and 60. Radiation from the two ends of the
spectrum shows a transmission which is low and is quite sim¬
ilar. In Muskellunge Lake that of red is lower than that of
blue; in the other cases blue is below red. In all cases green
and yellow are near together and are above total. All of these
lakes come from that group of nine whose transmission of total
lies between 55 and 60.
Figure 15 A-E shows the transmission in five lakes; two of
these, Long and Adelaide, are from the low medium group ; and
three, Bragonier, Midge, and Mary from the group with low
transmission. Long Lake (transmission 46) belongs in the
upper part of the low medium group and Adelaide Lake
(transmission 35) is in the lower part of the same group.
Bragonier Lake is near the top of the division with low trans¬
mission, while Lake Mary is near the bottom, so far as our
observations go.
Long Lake retains the general characteristics of the high
medium group, though in a reduced form. The contributions
of energy from the middle of the spectrum dominate increas¬
ingly as depth becomes greater ; red and especially blue fall off
rapidly and the transmission of red is below that of total.
In Adelaide Lake the transmission of green has followed
blue to a place below that of total. Total and red, which of
course here includes orange, are the same ; while yellow is still
above total. Such a condition is probably typical of many
lakes with a low medium transmission that is due chiefly to
stain.
Among the lakes with low transmission, Bragonier still re¬
tains a measurable amount of blue in the 1-2 m. stratum; in
the other two lakes the amount was too small for accurate
measurement. In Bragonier Lake the transmission of yellow,
red, and total were practically the same. The decline in trans¬
mission, as compared with that of Adelaide Lake, is due to the
greater absorption of yellow, and the consequent removal of
the position of maximum transmission toward the red end of
the spectrum. In Midge and Mary lakes red was above total
and yellow below it. No measurement of green was attempted
in Bragonier or Midge lakes ; in Lake Mary its value was close
to that of yellow.
Birge & Juday- — Solar Radiation and Inland Lakes. 333
0.1 Percent 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.5 2 3 4 5 6 8 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 80 100
Fig. is. Transmission curves of s lakes with low medium and low transmission. These are carried
out through 2 or 3 logarithmic cycles in order to make the situation more clear. Letters and signs as in
fig. 12. Long Lake is close to the upper limit of low medium transmission and Adelaide Lake is near
the lower limit. See p. 332 for discussion. In Bragonier Lake yellow and red practically coincide with
total; blue is very small; green was not observed. In Midge Lake red is slightly above total and yellow
below it. In Lake Mary the same situation is seen at a lower level of transmission. If the curve for
Little Pickerel Lake had been diagrammed only a single line could have been used. Total and red coin¬
cided; blue and yellow were absent or doubtful; green was not observed but could not have been present
in quantity to be noted.
334 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts^ and Letters,
The series of lakes illustrated in figures 12-15 begins with
the most transparent lake, Crystal, and ends with Lake Mary,
one of the most opaque. It shows how at one end of the scale
the energy of the visible spectrum in the water at very mod¬
erate depths is derived almost wholly from the short wave part.
All portions of this from blue to yellow fairly maintain their
relative contributions to the total light; while orange and red
diminish rapidly and finally almost disappear as depth in¬
creases. As stain and, probably, also seston increase, the con¬
tributions to light from the blue end of the spectrum fall off
and the middle of the visible spectrum becomes dominant. In
lakes whose water is still more deeply stained, the short wave
part of the spectrum is absorbed even more rapidly, and this
absorption extends to the greater wave lengths; orange and
red, rather than yellow, become the chief elements in the light.
In such cases transmission is necessarily low since water itself
rapidly absorbs radiation at this end of the visible spectrum.
Light in observable quantity penetrates only a small distance
into the lake.
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THE HIGHLAND LAKE DISTRICT OF NORTHEASTERN
WISCONSIN AND THE TROUT LAKE
LIMNOLOGICAL LABORATORY
C. JUDAY AND E. A. BIRGE
Notes from the Biological Laboratory of the Wisconsin Geological
and Natural History Survey. XL
Introduction
Inland bodies of water are found in considerable numbers
throughout about three-quarters of the state of Wisconsin.
There are approximately three thousand of these lakes and lake-
lets shown on the various county maps and many others have
been found which are not indicated on these maps. The latter
is true especially in the northern part of the state where the
original surveys were not made accurately. Including these
additional bodies of water, it seems probable that there are
upwards of four thousand inland lakes within the borders of
the state.
In size these bodies of water range from lakelets with an
area of a hectare (2.5 acres) or less up to Lake Winnebago
which has an area of 557 square kilometers (225 square miles) .
Winnebago, however, is very much larger than any of the
other inland lakes; Lake Poygan with an area of 44 square
kilometers (17 square miles) is second in size and Lake Men-
dota with an area of 39 square kilometers (15 square miles) is
third.
The great majority of the lakes that have been sounded are
relatively shallow, ranging from two or three meters (7 to 10
feet) up to 15 or 20 meters (50 to 65 feet) in depth; only a
few of them reach or exceed 30 meters (100 feet) in depth.
Green Lake with a maximum depth of 68 meters (223 feet) is
the deepest inland lake in the state and Lake Geneva with a
maximum depth of 43 meters (142 feet) ranks second. Very
few of these lakes possess large affluents, but the great majority
of them are fed either by springs or by relatively small affluents,
or by both.
These Wisconsin lakes are glacial in origin and are confined.
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338 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
therefore, to the glaciated portions of the state. During the
glacial period about three-fourths of the area of Wisconsin was
covered with a thick mantle of ice which moved southward from
certain centers in Canada. These ice invasions were repeated
at intervals, with interglacial periods of milder climate; five
such invasions have been recognized. While the ice extended
far beyond the southern and western boundaries of the state in
some of these invasions at least, it did not cover the south¬
western quarter and this section constitutes the non-glaciated
or driftless area of the state ; the driftless area does not possess
any natural lakes.
Most of the lakes as well as the chief topographic features of
glacial origin date their existence from the close of the last ice
invasion which is known as the Wisconsin stage of glaciation.
A belt of older drift containing lakes lies along the northern
edge of the driftless area and there is also a smaller area of
older drift at the southeast corner of the driftless area.
While these bodies of water form a more or less continuous
chain throughout the glaciated portions of the state, they read¬
ily fall into three major groups: (1) a southeastern group ex¬
tending from the Waupaca Chain near the center of the state
to the southeastern corner; (2) a northeastern group situated
in the northeastern quarter of the state, and (3) a northwest¬
ern group in the northwestern quarter. Several isolated lakes
that do not belong definitely to either group are situated in the
area between the southeastern and northeastern groups and the
same is true of the region between the northeastern and north¬
western groups.
A limnological study of the more important lakes in the
northeastern group was begun in 1925 and this investigation
has constituted the major problem of the Natural History Divi*
sion of the Wisconsin Survey for the past five years (1925-
1929). If present plans are carried out this investigation will
be continued for another period of three to five years, perhaps
longer. The present paper is intended to serve as an introduc¬
tion to a series of papers which will deal with the results ob¬
tained on the various lakes of this district. Figure 1 is a map
tvhich includes practically all of the area occupied by the north¬
eastern group of lakes. All of the lakes that have been visited
up to the end of the 1929 season are situated within the region
covered by the map.
ramaracko
JHasKwoi; length of toes, 50/x. Width
of dorsal plate, ISOfi; width of ventral plate, 105/a. Depth of
lorica, 90/a. Material from Newdorf, near Strasbourg, France :
Length of dorsal plate, 200/a length of ventral plate, 170/a length
of toes, 70/a. Width of dorsal plate, 90/a; width of ventral plate,
80/a. Depth of lorica, 95/a. Material from Vorkommen-Zan-
genfrund, Altwasser des Rheims: Length of dorsal plate,
250/a; length of toes, 75/a. Width of dorsal plate, 189/a. Depth
of lorica in various specimens, 90/a, 105/a, 120/a, 140/a, 155/a.
Euchlanis dilatata is cosmopolitan, being found in permanent
bodies of water everywhere. It is tolerant to both acid and
alkaline conditions, being found in both hard and soft water.
The form with the deep, triangular, dorsal plate may be easily
mistaken for a small Euchlanis triquetra. The differences be¬
tween the two species are: The dorsal plate of Euchlanis
dilatata, in lateral view, is evenly arched, without a distinct
neck region, (plate 11, figure 5) ; in Euchlanis triquetra, the
dorsal plate is very high over the stomach, rising abruptly from
a rather distinct neck region, then falling away rapidly towards
the foot (plate 13, figure 1 . Euchlanis dilatata never has a
dorsal keel, no matter how high the dorsal plate may be ; while
Euchlanis triquetra always has a dorsal keel which may not be
very evident in preserved material on account of expansion, but
is always present in living animals. The posterior notch of
Euchlanis dilatata is deep and shaped like an elongate, inverted
U ; while the posterior notch of Euchlanis triquetra is relatively
more shallow and shaped like an inverted V.
EUCHLANIS PARVA Rousselet
PL 12, Figs. 1-6, 11
Euchlanis parva Rousselet, Journ. Queckett. Micr. Club, 1892, ser. 2,
vol. 4, p. 396, pi. 24.
Euchlanis oropha Gosse, Susswasserfauna Deutschlands, pt. 14, 1912,
p. 167, fig. 328.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is ovoid in shape, truncate in front, round behind.
A cross-section resembles the high arc of a circle. The dorsal
366 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
plate is mesially divided posteriorly by a deep U-shaped notch.
The ventral plate is nearly as large as the dorsal all around
and is connected to the dorsal plate by two lateral, longitudinal
sulci, one on each side. The usual pair of long setae project
from the dorsal side of the first foot joint. The toes are long
and slender, gradually increasing in width from the base to near
the tips, from where they fall away rapidly to acute points;
their length is more than one-third that of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal and lateral antennae are normal and in the usual
positions.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. There are four
opposed, club-shaped, functional teeth in each uncus with sev¬
eral accessories attached to the dorsal teeth near their bases.
The rami have a pair of minute fan-shaped, denticulate combs,
one on the inner side of each tip.
The retrocerebral sac, eye-spot, and remaining anatomy are
normal to the genus.
Length of the dorsal plate, 140ja; length of ventral plate, 125/^;
width of dorsal plate, 100/x. Width of ventral plate, 75ja; length
of toes, 70/x; depth of posterior notch, 50/x.
This species is figured and described in the Susswasserfauna
Deutschlands, as Euchlanis oropha Gosse.
Rousselet says that one of the distinguishing characters of
Euchlanis parva is the large size of the lateral antennae. His
specimens must have been small ones as the lateral antennae
do not vary much in size with the size of the individual. A
small specimen would naturally appear to have larger lateral
antennae than a larger one. In fact, the tubular lateral an¬
tennae are very uniform in size throughout the genus Euchlanis.
Euchlanis parva resembles Euchlanis dilatata but is readily
distinguished from it by its smaller size and by the very long,
slender toes. It is a cosmopolitan species, being found every¬
where in the littoral region of permanent bodies of water among
aquatic vegetation.
EUJCHIiANIS OROPHA Gosse
PI. 12, Figs. 7-10
Euchlanis oropha Gosse, Journ. Royal Micr. Soc. London, 1887, p. 5,
pi. 2, fig. 16.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is ovate in shape, truncate in front, rounded behind,
and a cross-section resembles the arc of a circle. The dorsal
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 367
plate has a deep posterior notch shaped like an inverted U.
The ventral plate is nearly as large as the dorsal all around ; it
is joined to the dorsal plate by a pair of longitudinal sulci ex¬
tending the entire length of the body. The foot is stout and
two- jointed. The presence of foot-setae was not determined,
owing to the small amount of material available. The toes are
short and stout, gradually increasing in width for about two-
thirds their length then falling away to acute points; they are
about one-fourth the length of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal antenna is normal to the genus and the lateral
antennae are in the usual position.
The mastax is modified malleate in type. There are four,
opposed, clubshaped, functional teeth in each uncus and the
usual pair of denticulate, fan-shaped, comb-like processes are
present, one on the inside of each ramus tip.
The retrocerebral sac, eye and remaining anatomy are normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, 200/x; length of ventral plate, 180/^;
width of dorsal plate, 130/a; width of ventral plate, 115/a; length
of toes, 70/a.
This species seems to be rare. The only material seen was
received from the late Mr. Chas. F. Rousselet by whom it was
determined. He collected it in the Grand Junction Canal, Lon¬
don, England.
Euchlanis oropha is closely related to Euchlanis dilatata from
which it differs mainly in the stouter foot and more robust dif¬
ferently shaped toes. The tooth formula is the same in the
two species, with minor differences in the accessory teeth which
are probably subject to variation.
EUCHLANIS TRiaUETRA Ehrenberg
PI. 13, Figs. 1-5
Euchlanis triquetra Ehrenberg, Infusionsth., 1838, p. 461, pi. 57, fig. 8.
Euchlanis hyalina Leydig, Zeitsch. Wiss. Zool. vol. 6, 1854, p. 60.
Euchlanis uniseta Leydig, Zeitschr. Wiss. Zool. vol. 6, 1854, p. 61, pi. 4,
fig. 45.
Euchlanis triquetra hyalina, Susswasserfauna Deutschlands, pt. 14,
1912, p. 168, text fig.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is ovoid in shape, truncate in front, rounded be¬
hind. The dorsal plate is triradiate in cross-section and has a
high median keel extending from the neck region to the an-
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terior angle of the posterior notch. The posterior notch is tri¬
angular and shaped like an inverted V. The ventral plate is
about three-fifths the width of the dorsal. Longitudinal sulci
of flexible cuticle unite both plates laterally. The foot is two-
jointed and a pair of long setae project from the dorsal side of
the first foot joint. The toes are slender, fusiform and about
one-third the length of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal antenna is normal and the laterals are in the usual
position.
The trophi have five functional, club-shaped teeth in each
uncus and there are the usual pair of denticulate combs, one on
the inner side of the tip of each ramus. The remaining anat¬
omy is normal to the genus.
Euchlanis triquetra varies considerably in size depending on
food conditions and the environment.
Length of the dorsal plate, 210 — 270/x; length of ventral
plate, 180 — 240ju-; width of dorsal plate, 155 — 240/x; width of
ventral plate, 105 — 160/^; length of toes, 70 — 85^; depth of
lorica, 140 — 180/x.
This species is universally distributed in the littoral zone of
permanent bodies of water where conditions of existence per¬
mit. It appears to be able to tolerate both acid and alkaline
conditions, as we have collected it in various locations ranging
in pH from 6.4 to 7.6. This is not uncommon among the rotif-
era as there are many species, belonging to the cosmopolitan
group, that are able to tolerate a ten point range or more.
Through the kindness of Dr. P. de Beauchamp, examples of
Euchlanis triquetra were recently received from FAgoulmine
(mare), Ikeur, Algeria, North Africa, It is interesting to note
that the dorsal keel in these specimens is more reduced in the
anterior portion and prominent posteriorly.
Euchlanis triquetra resembles Euchlanis pellucida super¬
ficially, but is consistently smaller and readily distinguished
from the latter by the presence of a ventral plate. The smaller
species bear a certain resemblance to the triradiate form of
Euchlanis dilatata (plate 11, figures 4, 7). The differences are
discussed in the course of the description of Euchlanis dilatata.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V.
369
DAPIDIA DEPLEXA Gosse
PI. 21, Figs. 1-5
Euchlanis deflexa Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., London, 1851, ser. 2,
vol. 8, p. 200.
The corona agrees with that of the genus Euchlanis. The
body resembles the arc of a circle in cross-section. The dorsal
plate is ovoid, constant in shape and without a distinct pos¬
terior notch, although there may be a shallow emargination in
place of it. The lateral edges of the dorsal plate are connected
by a flexible membrane somewhat thickened in the position oc¬
cupied by the ventral plate in the genus Euchlanis. The pos¬
terior portion of this area is of hardened cuticle, as shown by
the heavy line in figure 2. There are no lateral longitudinal
sulci. The foot is stout and two- jointed; it carries two pair of
long setae on the dorsal end of the first foot joint. The toes
are short, stout and fusiform in shape, ending in tips that ap¬
pear almost papillose in dorsal view.
The dorsal and lateral antennae are normal.
The mastax is modified malleate type. The tips of the rami
are drawn out into long, slender, bacillar rods, without den¬
ticulate combs inside the tips as in Euchlanis. There are five
slender, opposing teeth, clubbed at the tips, and two or three
accessory teeth attached to the bases of the dorsal teeth in each
ramus.
There are a pair of prominent dorsal salivary glands at¬
tached to the anterior part of the mastax. The remaining anat¬
omy is normal.
Length of dorsal plate, 280/x; length of toes, 90ju, width of
dorsal plate, 125/x.
Dapidia deflexa appears to be rare in the United States. The
animal, figured and described here, is from material deter¬
mined by the late C. F. Rousselet, who collected it at Mill Hill,
England, and stated that it agreed perfectly with specimens
of Gosse’s he had seen. At first glance, this species can easily
be mistaken for the form of Euchlanis alata without the lateral
wing-like expansions of the dorsal plate. Both are robust ani¬
mals with stout toes and foot-glands. If it be remembered that
Euchlanis alata has a normal, well-marked, ventral plate with
lateral flanges and longitudinal sulci, and, that the type of the
mastax is different from Dapidia, there will be no confusion
between the two species.
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370 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters,
DAPIDIA PYRIFORMIS Gosse
PI. 15, Figs. 5-7
Euchlanis pyriformis Gosse, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1851, ser. 2, vol. 8,
p. 201.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is orbicular in shape, truncate in front, round be¬
hind. The lateral edges of the dorsal plate are often pinched
in near the middle. The venter is membranous, only the pos¬
terior portion being stiffened ; there are no lateral sulci. The
foot is obscurely two- jointed and has two pairs of long setae
projecting from the dorsal side of the first foot joint. The
toes are short, stout and nearly parallel sided ; their length is a
little over one-fourth that of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal and lateral antennae are normal and in the usual
positions.
There are a pair of prominent dorsal salivary glands at¬
tached to the mastax, one on each side of the opening of the
oesophagus. The gastric and foot glands are stout and large.
The remaining anatomy is normal.
In specimens from Epping Forest, England, kindly sent and
determined by Mr. C. F. Rousselet, length of the dorsal plate,
285/>t; width of dorsal plate, 275/^; length of toes, SO/jl. In
specimens from Karlsruhe, Baden; length of the dorsal plate,
320/x; width of dorsal plate, 315/^; length of toes, 85/>i.
This species seems to be rare, having been reported from the
United States several times only. It has much in common with
Dapidia calpidia and Dapidia deflexa. In these three species,
the type of the mastax is the same, the rami differing from
Euchlanis as pointed out previously; they all have membranous
venters without lateral flanges or longitudinal sulci, in place
of the ventral plates as found in the genus Euchlanis; they all
have prominent dorsal salivary glands arising from anterior
portion of the mastax. Neither Dapidia deflexa nor pyriformis
has true posterior notches, but may have slight emarginations
instead, depending on the state of contraction of the individual.
The lorica of Dapidia pyriformis is constant, so far as is
known, with the middle portions of the dorsal plate always
pinched in. The lorica of Dapidia calpidia, its nearest relative,
is variable in depth and the lateral edges of the dorsal plate
may, or may not, be pinched in.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V,
371
DAPIDIA CAIiPIDIA Myers, new species
PI. 20, Fig-s. 1-8
The corona agrees with that of the genus Euchlanis.
The dorsal plate is variable in cross-section; it may be high
and obscurely triradiate, or round. The middle portions of
the lateral edges may, or may not be, pinched in and extend
downward below the venter. The sides of the dorsal plate are
connected by a flexible membrane somewhat stiffened in the
position of the ventral plate as in the genus Euchlanis. There
are no lateral, longitudinal sulci. There is a wide V-shaped
notch in the middle of the posterior margin of the dorsal plate.
The foot is slender and two-jointed; it carries two pairs of
long setae on the dorsal side of the first foot joint. The toes
are long, slender and parallel-sided, ending in rather abrupt
points.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. The tips of
the rami are drawn out into long, bacillar rods, without den¬
ticulate combs on the inner side of the tips. There are five
slender, opposing teeth, clubbed at their tips, and two or three
accessory teeth in each ramus.
There are a pair of prominent dorsal salivary glands at¬
tached to the mastax near its anterior part. The remaining
anatomy is normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, 280/^; width of dorsal plate, 220/^1,;
length of toes, 120/^.
Dapidia calpidia resembles Dapidia deflexa by the presence
of dorsal salivary glands and the same type of mastax; it re¬
sembles Dapidia pyriformis by the presence of dorsal salivary
glands and the same type of mastax and, in some cases, the
same type of dorsal plate with the lateral edges pinched in.
It differs from them by having long, slender toes and by the
presence of a distinct posterior notch.
This may be a form of the species described by Gosse as
Dapidia stroma. What there is of his description fits fairly
well. As the description in the Supplement is insufficient for a
positive determination, no mention being made of anything
but the lorica, the specific name Dapidia stroma is not used
here. Dapidia stroma has never been found since and it seems
advisable to wait for further information on the species before
definitely deciding that it is the same species as Dapidia
calpidia.
872 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
The various forms of Dapidia calpidia are fairly common in
bodies of permanent water of pH less than 7.0, in Atlantic
County, New Jersey; Mt. Desert Island, Maine and Vilas
County, Wisconsin. We have also had it from Karlsruhe and
Munchweiler-Weiher, Baden, and from Heidelsiche-Waldace,
Kreis Weibenfels, Germany.
Euchlanis calpidia is never found in large numbers in a col¬
lection, appearing to be a rather solitary animal. It seldom
has any coloring matter in the stomach or intestine, always
being clear and of a milky appearance.
EUCHLANIS PHRYNE Myers, new species
PI. 14, Fig. 1; PI. 15, Figs. 1^4
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The general shape of the body is oval. The lateral edges of
the dorsal plate are pinched in near the middle part and there
is a deep, inverted U-shaped posterior notch, which is nearly
as deep as the toes are long. The ventral plate is stiffened
throughout, and longitudinal sulci connect it with the dorsal
plate. The foot is two-jointed and has the usual pair of long
setae projecting from the first foot joint. The toes are short,
fusiform, slightly swollen in the middle portion then gradually
diminishing to the tips ; their length is a little over one-fourth
that of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal antenna is normal and bears the usual tuft of
sensory setae in a central depression. The lateral antennae are
in the usual position.
The trophi have four opposed, club-shaped, functional teeth
in each ramus, and there are a pair of fan-shaped, denticulate
combs, one on the inner side of the tip of each ramus.
The foot glands are long and moderately stout. The re¬
mainder of the anatomy is normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, 225ja; length of ventral plate,
210/a ; width of dorsal plate, 180/x ; width of ventral plate, 150/x ;
length of toes, 65/a.
Euchlanis phryne is rare, only a few individuals having been
collected in Eagle Lake and Toad Hole, Mt. Desert Island,
Maine. The dorsal plate bears a superficial resemblance to
Dapidia pyriformis and one of the forms of Dapidia calpidia.
The species differs from them by having a true ventral plate;
a deep U-shaped posterior notch and different type of trophi.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 373
EUCHIiANIS PELLUCIDA Harrin^
PL 14, Figs. 2-6
Euchlanis pellucida Harring. Rep. Cana. Arc. Exp. 1913, vol. 8, pt. E,
Rotatoria, Ottawa, 1921, p. 6, pi. 2.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is orbicular in dorsal view and triradiate in cross-
section. The dorsal plate is produced laterally into wide
flanges, and has a high median keel extending its entire length.
The venter is joined directly to the lateral edges of the dorsal
plate without the intervention of longitudinal sulci. There is
no posterior notch. The foot is obscurely two-jointed; two
long setae project from the dorsal side of the first foot joint.
The toes are long, slender and nearly straight, slightly en¬
larged posteriorly and end in rather abrupt points.
The dorsal antenna is large in diameter and obliquely trun¬
cate; it bears a small tuft of sensory setae in a shallow, cen¬
tral depression. The lateral antennae are minute tubules in
the usual position.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. There are five
opposing, clubshaped, functional teeth in each uncus, with sev¬
eral minute accessory teeth attached to each of the dorsal teeth.
The rami are triangular and the tips are abruptly reduced to
acute points, on the inside of each is a finely denticulate, fan¬
shaped comb-like process.
Length of dorsal plate, 300 — 500/x ; width of dorsal plate,
270 — 450/^; length of toes, 90 — 150/x.
Euchlanis pellucida is found in permanent bodies of water
with an acid reaction of less than pH 7.0. It has been col¬
lected in Vilas County, Wisconsin; Atlantic County, New Jer¬
sey; Mt. Desert Island, Maine; Polk County, Florida; Alaska,
Baden, Germany, and France.
This species bears a superficial resemblance to Euchlanis
triquetra, from which it differs in its greater size ; the absence
of a ventral plate and posterior notch.
EUCHLANIS AUATA Voronkov
PI. 16, Figs. 1-5; PI. 17, Figs. 1-5
Euchlanis alata Voronkov, Ann. Mus. ZooL, St. Petersburg, 1912, vol.
16, p. 210, text figure.
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body resembles an arc of a circle in cross-section, and may
374 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
have lateral wing-like expansions of the dorsal plate, as shown
in figures 2 and 3 of plate 17 ; or may be perfectly ovoid with¬
out any signs of these expansions. Intermediate forms are
common and figure 2, plate 16, shows one of these, with the
lateral expansions just starting to form. There is no true pos¬
terior notch, but a slight emargination may be sometimes seen
in place of it. The ventral plate is elongate and somewhat
over one-half the width of the dorsal. The foot is robust and
has two Joints. Two pairs of setae project from the dorsal
side of the first foot-joint. The toes are stout, fusiform and
about one-fourth the length of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal antennae are normal and the lateral antennae are
in the usual position.
The mastax is modified malleate type. The tips of the rami
are acute and incurved with a pair of finely denticulate combs,
one on the inner side of each tip. There are four stout func¬
tional teeth in each uncus, with several accessory teeth at¬
tached to the dorsal pair at their bases. At the dorsal point
of junction of the mastax with the oesophagus, there are two
pairs of what appear to be glands, one pair on each side of the
oesophagus. These may be the ‘‘sessile renflenments” referred
to by de Beauchamp; they are quite large, the anterior pair
being much larger than the posterior pair; they contain sev¬
eral large nuclei indicating their glandular structure. In the
genus Calpidia the pair of dorsal salivary glands are large and
originate in the anterior portion of the mastax. The small
glands in Euchlanis alata, above referred to, originate at the
junction of the oesophagus with the mastax and may be gastric
in their function.
The retrocerebral sac is large and well developed. The
stomach and intestine have the usual strong constriction be¬
tween them. The foot glands and their accessories are large
and stout. The remaining anatomy is normal to the genus.
Length of dorsal plate, 260 — 280/x ; length of ventral plate,
200 — 220/>t; length of toes, 70 — 100/x; width of dorsal plate,
185 — 210y; width of ventral plate, 150 — 170/^.
Euchlanis alata is common in permanent bodies of acid water
on Mt. Desert Island, Maine, where it is found in all stages of
seasonal or cyclic “wing’’ development. It has been collected
in Atlantic County, New Jersey, but these specimens had no
lateral wing-like processes. Specimens have been received
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V, 375
from near Moscow, Russia, and from Arc-en-Barrois ( Haute-
Mar ne) France.
This species, form without ‘‘wings'’, may easily be mistaken
for Euchlanis deflexa. See description of Euchlanis deflexa
for the points of difference.
EUCHIiANlS CAIiIiYSTA Myers, new species
PI. 17, Figs. 6-9
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is much laterally compressed, very high dorso-ven-
trally and has a central keel extending the entire length of the
dorsal plate. There is no ventral plate, and the membrane,
taking the place of it, is joined directly to the sides of the
dorsal plate without the intervention of longitudinal sulci.
Only the extreme posterior portion of the venter is cuticular,
as represented by the curved line in figure 7. The foot is ob¬
scurely two- jointed and two setae project from the dorsal side
of the first foot-joint. The toes are long, parallel-sided and
quite slender.
The dorsal antenna is unusually large in diameter and
obliquely truncate ; it bears the usual tuft of sensory setae in a
shallow, central depression. The lateral antennae are normal
and in the usual position.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type; the rami are
stout and triangular, more robust at the tips than in the other
species; there are a pair of very minute denticulate combs,
one on each ramus just inside the tips. The two opposing ven¬
tral teeth of the unci are very stout, followed by four more
slender teeth without any accessories. The remaining anat¬
omy is normal.
Length of dorsal plate, 170ja; length of toes, 50/x; width of
dorsal plate, 80/x depth of lorica, 65/x.
Euchlanis callysta is rare, always very transparent, seldom
with coloring matter in the stomach or intestine; it swims
through the water very rapidly and is in constant motion. It
has been collected in Atlantic County, New Jersey and on Mt.
Desert Island, Maine, in permanent bodies of acid water, rang¬
ing in pH from 6.4 to 6.8.
376 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
EUCHIiANIS LYRA Hudson
PI. 18, Figs. 1-5
Euchlanis lyra Hudson, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, p. 89, pi.
23, fig. 1. j
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is elongate and ovoid. A cross-section resembles
the arc of a circle. The dorsal plate is evenly arched in lateral
view and there is no posterior notch. The ventral plate is
about two-thirds the width of the dorsal at its widest part, and
somewhat constricted near the posterior end.
The foot is slender and two- jointed and has the usual pair of
long setae on the dorsal side of the first foot-joint. The toes
are moderately long, very slender and nearly parallel-sided;
their length is somewhat less than one-third that of the dorsal
plate.
The dorsal antenna is small and bears the usual tuft of sen¬
sory setae in a shallow central depression. The lateral an¬
tennae emerge from a pair of minute tubules in the usual
position.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. The rami are
triangular and carry a pair of minute denticulate combs just
inside the tips, one on each ramus. The unci each have five
unequal, opposing, club-shaped, functional teeth with two or
three accessories attached to the dorsal teeth near their bases.
The remainder of the anatomy is normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, 335/x; length of ventral plate,
225ja; width of dorsal plate, 180/a ; width of ventral plate, 130/a;
length of toes, 90/a.
The lateral view of this species is quite characteristic. The
dorsal plate begins to fall away gradually towards the foot at a
point over the constriction between the stomach and intestine,
giving the animal a very shallow appearance at the posterior
portion of the body.
The very slender toes, together with the absence of a pos¬
terior notch are enough to separate it from the other species
of the genus.
Euchlanis lyra was collected in Silver Spring Reservoir, Los
Angeles, California, by Myers, the only time reported from the
United States. Specimens have been received from Herr J.
Hauer who collected it at Donaveshingen, Baden, and who re-
Myers— The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V. 377
ports it common there in the spring of the year. Dr. P. de
Beauchamp kindly sent material of this species from France.
The late Chas. F. Rousselet kindly sent material from Dundee,
Scotland.
EUCHLANIS PROXIMA Myers, new species
PI. 19, Figs. 1-4
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is ovoid in shape. The dorsal plate is evenly arched
in lateral view and has a deep U-shaped posterior notch. The
ventral plate is almost as large as the dorsal all around.
Longitudinal sulci of flexible cuticle join the dorsal and ventral
plates. Just under the posterior notch of the dorsal plate and
above the first foot-joint is a cuticular, shield-like process that
evidently protects the delicate foot. The foot is two- jointed
and the pair of setae that usually project from the dorsal side
of the first foot joint are wanting in this species. The toes are
stout and blade-shaped; their length is about one-third that of
the dorsal plate.
The dorsal antenna is normal and the lateral antennae are
in the usual position.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. The trophi
have four clubshaped, functional teeth in each uncus and there
are a pair of denticulate, fan-shaped combs, one on the inner
side of the tip of each ramus. The remainder of the anatomy
is normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, 105/x; length of ventral plate,
dOjut; width of dorsal plate, width of ventral plate, 90/i;
length of toes, 50/x.
This species is closely related to Euchlanis meneta. While
the trophi are very similar and both have a protective, shield¬
like process above the first foot- joint, the toes of Euchlanis
proxima are relatively much shorter and stouter than those of
Euchlanis meneta; the lateral view of the lorica of Euchlanis
proxima is evenly arched, while the lateral view of Euchlanis
meneta is very high in the lumbar region and falls away
abruptly to the foot. The dorsal plate of E. proxima is con¬
stant, being evenly arched in cross-section, while the dorsal
plate of E. meneta is variable and may be evenly arched or tri-
radiate as shown on plate 19, fig. 7, and indicated by the dotted
line.
378 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Euchlanis proxima is rare. It was collected in submerged
sphagnum near the bank of an acid brook about three miles
south of Tuckertown, New Jersey (pH 6.0).
EUCHLANIS MENETA Myers, new species
Plate 19, Figs. 5-8
Euchlanis oropha Lucks, Zur Rotatorienfauna Westpreussens, Danzig,
1912, p. 105, fig. 31 (not Gosse, 1887).
The corona agrees with that of the other species of the genus.
The body is roughly ovoid in dorsal view and a cross-section
may resemble the arc of a circle or be roughly triradiate. The
dorsal plate rises from the neck region to a point above the lat¬
eral antennae relatively higher than in any of the other species
of Euchlanis, from where it falls away abruptly to the foot.
The posterior notch is very deep and resembles an elongate,
inverted U. The ventral plate is roughly about two-fifths of
the dorsal in width and, as in the other species of Euchlanis, is
connected to the dorsal plate by thin cuticle forming longitudi¬
nal sulci. It is true that the width of the lateral sulci in Euch¬
lanis is variable, depending on the state of nourishment and
the development of the ova. However, in this species the dorso-
ventral width of the lateral sulci is relatively uniformly wider
than in any other species of the genus. Under the posterior
portion of the dorsal plate and above the first foot-joint is a
cuticular, shield-like process evidently protecting the delicate
foot. The same structure is to be found in Euchlanis proxima
and Tripleuchlanis plicata. The foot is two-jointed and very
slender, with two pairs of very long setae projecting from the
dorsal side of the first foot- joint. The toes are very long,
slender and nearly straight, with a slight swelling near the
tips; their length is nearly one-half the length of the dorsal
plate.
The dorsal antenna is normal; the lateral antennae are in
the usual position. The remainder of the anatomy is normal.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. The trophi
have four strong clubbed, functional teeth in each uncus and
there appear to be no dorsal accessories. A minute pair of
denticulate combs, one on the inside of the tip of each ramus,
are present.
Length of dorsal plate, 120 — 140/a; length of ventral plate,
100 — 120/a; length of toes, 65 — 75/a. Width of dorsal plate.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 379
80 — lOOju,; width of ventral plate, 50 — 65/^. Depth of pos¬
terior notch, 35 — 45/x. In young individuals the toes are fre¬
quently equal to the remainder of the body in length.
Euchlanis meneta is common in bodies of permanent water
in Atlantic County, New Jersey; Mt. Desert Island, Maine and
Vilas County, Wisconsin. We have received it also from
France, England and Germany. Lucks describes and figures
this species, calling it Euchlanis oropha Gosse. Its closest rela¬
tive is Euchlanis proxima, from which it differs in the smaller
size, shape of the dorsal plate in lateral view, and the length
and shape of the toes.
TRIPI^EUCHIiANIS PLICATA Levander
PL 22, Figs. 1-4
Euchlanis plicata Levander, Acta Soc. Fauna, Flora Fennica. Helsing¬
fors. vol. 12, No. 3, p. 48, pi. 2, fig. 27.
The corona agrees with that of the genus Euchlanis.
The body is ovoid in shape. The dorsal plate has a shallow
emargination in the position of the posterior notch. The ven¬
tral plate is nearly as large as the dorsal all around. There
are a pair of lateral, longitudinal sulci on each side of the body,
that connect the dorsal and ventral plates, each lateral pair
being separated by a flange of stiffened cuticle. A cross-section
would look as if the dorsal and ventral plate were both con¬
nected by two bellows-like folds. There is a shield-like process
above and protecting the first foot- joint, as in Euchlanis prox¬
ima and meneta. The foot is stout and has three robust joints
which project considerably beyond the lorica in extended
specimens. The setae on the dorsal side of the penultimate
foot-joint seem to be wanting. The toes are short and parallel¬
sided ; they are about one-third the length of the dorsal plate.
The dorsal and lateral antennae are normal and in the usual
positions.
The mastax is modified malleate in type. The rami are tri¬
angular in ventral view and there are six opposing, functional
teeth in each uncus. There are a very minute pair of denticu¬
late combs, one on the inner side of the tip of each ramus.
The retrocerebral sac is relatively small. There are two
closely connected eye-spots near the posterior part of the
ganglion.
380 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
The foot glands and their accessories are very long and
slender. The remainder of the anatomy is normal.
Length of the dorsal plate, OO^a; length of ventral plate, 100/a ;
width of dorsal plate, 60/a; width of ventral plate, 55/a; length
of toes, 25/a.
This species is common everywhere, in the salt water of bays
and inlets, wherever there is a growth of marine algae; it is
the only marine Euchlanid rotifer known.
DIPEUCHLANIS PROPATULA de Beauchamp
PI. 22, Figs. 5-7
Diplois propatula GossE, Hudson and Gosse, Rotifera, 1886, vol. 2,
p. 87, pi. 24, fig. 2.
Euchlanis subversa Bryce, Sci. Goss. vol. 26, 1890, p. 77, text figs.
Euchlanis elegans WiERZEJSKi, Bull. Acad. Sci. Cracovie (for 1892),
1893, p. 406.
Euchlanis longicaudata COLLiN, Deutsch-Ost-Afrika, vol. 4, no. 15,
1897, p. 6, fig. 4.
Dipeuchlanis propatula de Beauchamp, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, vol. 35,
1910, p. 122.
The corona of this species is of the family type and is ven-
trally inclined. The head is large and connected with the an¬
terior edge of the lorica by a cuticular membrane.
The shape of the body is oval, truncate in front, rounded
behind.
The dorsal plate is concave and smaller than the ventral plate
all around, the posterior portion gradually narrowing, being
obtusely pointed at the posterior end. The ventral plate is
convex. The dorsal and ventral plates are connected by a
deep groove that seems to be slightly more stiffened than the
cuticle forming the lateral sulci in the genus Euchlanis. The
lateral edges of the two plates are nearly parallel and some¬
what elevated above the planes of the plates themselves.
The foot is short, slender and three- jointed; there are no
setae on the dorsal side of the penultimate foot-joint. The toes
are very long, parallel sided, very slender, cylindrical and
slightly swollen near their bases. Individuals occur with per¬
fectly straight toes, and with the toes curved outwards, vary¬
ing somewhat in length in specimens from different locations;
the average would be about one-half the length of the dorsal
plate.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 381
The dorsal and lateral antennae are of the normal Euchlanid
type, in the usual positions.
The mastax is of the modified malleate type. The rami are
triangular in ventral view, and the unci each have ten, or more,
long, slender, teeth, clubbed at the tips. There are a pair of
very minute denticular, fan-shaped combs, one on the inner tip
of each ramus.
Length of the lorica, 170 — 200/x; length of toes, 70 — 110/a.
Dipeuchlanis propatula is fairly common in hard water lakes
and ponds, among aquatics of the littoral region. A single in¬
dividual was collected in the very acid water of Indian Creek,
Ocean County, New Jersey, (pH 4.5) September, 1927. The
specimen was small, poorly nourished and seemed to be
accidental.
Some Important References in Which Descriptions and
Figures of the Genus Euchlanis May Be Found
Hudson, C. T. and P. H. Gosse: The Rotifera or Wheel Animal¬
cules, both British and foreign. Quarto. London, 1886.
vol. 1, VI, 128 pp., 15 pis., vol. 2, 144 pp., pis. 16-30.
Hudson, C. T. and P. H. Gosse: The Rotifera or Wheel Animal¬
cules, Supplement, both British and foreign. Quarto.
London, 1889, 64 pp., pis. 31-34.
Weber, E. F.: Faune rotatorienne du basin de Leman. Revue
Suisse ZooL, Geneve, 1898, vol. 5, pp. 263-785, pis. 10-25.
Collin, A., Diffenbach, H., Sachse, R., and M. Voigt: Susswas-
serfauna Deutschlands ; Heft. 14. Rotatoria und Gastro-
tricha. Octovo. Jena, 1912. IV + 273 pp., text figs.
Weber, E. F. and G. Montet: Catalogue des Invertebres de la
Suisse. Fascicule II, Rotateurs, Geneve, 1918, XII + 332
pp., text figs.
Beauchamp, P. M. de: Recherches sur les Rotiferes: les forma¬
tions tegumentaires et Tappareil digestif. Arch. Zool.
Exp., Paris, 1909, ser. 4, vol. 10, pp. 1-140, pis. 1-9, text
figs.
382 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Genus MONOMMATA Bartsch
Monommata Bartsch, Jahresh. Naturk. Wurttemberg, 1870, vol. 26,
p. 344.
Harking, H. K. and F. J. Myers; Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts, Letters,
vol. 21, 1924, p. 534.
In view of recent research on a number of new species of
the genus Monommata, the definition of the mastax will have
to be corrected. Only in a few species is the mastax interme¬
diate between the virgate and forcipate types: ‘‘rami being
lyrate and the inner margins armed with one or more strong
teeth immediately below the mouth opening; the unci having
three unequally developed, long, slender, clubbed teeth, with the
manubra broad and lamellar at the base’’, as defined by Harring
and Myers. In a number of new species there is an extremely
simple type of virgate mastax ; the rami are lyrate or triangular
without inner teeth ; the manubra are very simple and rod-like,
and the unci have, in most cases, one weakly developed tooth,
or are reduced to very thin lamellar, supporting plates. The
fulcrum is long and there is a well developed hypopharynx.
MONOMMATA HYALINA Myers, new species
PI. 23, Figs. 1-3
The body of this species is large, stout and cylindrical,
transparent and milky in color; its bulk being greater than
that of any other species in the genus. The integument is
flexible and the outline varies with the state of contraction of
the individual.
The head segment is large, its depth being about equal to its
length. The foot is short, stout and obscurely two- jointed.
The toes, as usual in this genus, are very long, the left being
much shorter than the right; the basal portions are stout and
tapering, passing gradually into the cylindrical, slender pos¬
terior portions.
The dorsal antenna is situated on a pronounced, setigerous
prominence in the normal position ; the minute lateral antennae
are on the posterior fourth of the body, one on each side.
The corona is oblique and the posterior half is nearly ven¬
tral, being prolonged into a very prominent chin-like process.
The ciliation consists of a marginal wreath with lateral, auricle¬
like tufts of longer cilia adapted for propulsion ; the apical area
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 383
is unciliated and the buccal plate evenly covered with short,
close-set cilia.
The mastax is very large and modified virgate in type. The
hypopharynx is very prominent, strong and transversely stri¬
ated. The fulcrum is long, stout and swollen in the middle
portion; it is longitudinally striated, the posterior end being
recurved and serrate. The rami are roughly triangular, in
ventral view, and without a basal apophysis. At the point of
articulation on the inner side of the right ramus, there is a
denticulate comb-like process having eight or ten teeth. There
are no other teeth on the inner margins of the rami. Each
uncus has a long, slender, sigmoidal tooth, clubbed at the tip.
The basal portions of the manubra are sub-orbicular and plate¬
like; the posterior portions, rod-like ending with the tips
strongly recurved and uncinate. A pair of slender, clavate
rods are embedded in the walls of the mastax below the pos¬
terior edge of the rami and assist in support during pumping
action.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are very small
and oval. There is a strong constriction between the clear in¬
testine and the stomach. The ovary and bladder are normal.
The foot glands are rather small and pyriform.
The ganglion is large and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
small; the contained bacteroids rendering it more or less
opaque to transmitted light. The duct could not be traced be¬
yond the sac, nor could subcerebral glands be found. The eye-
spot is large and situated on the posterior end of the ganglion.
Length of the body, 300/x ; length of right toe, 350/x ; length of
left toe, 250ja; length of trophi, 70/x.
Monommata hyalina is fairly common among aquatic plants
in permanent bodies of acid water (pH 6.4 — 6.8), on Mt.
Desert Island, Maine, and Atlantic County, New Jersey.
MONOMMATA GRANDIS Tessin
PI. 23, Figs. 4-7
Monommata grandis Tessin, Arch. Naturg. Mecklenburg, 1890, vol. 43,
p. 151, pi. 1, figs. 11, 12.
Monommata grandis Levander, Acta. Soc. Fauna et Flora Fennica,
1895, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 35.
Furcularia longiseta grandis Rousselet, Journ. Queckett Micr. Club,
1895, ser. 2, vol. 6, p. 124, pi. 7, fig. 3.
384 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Monommata longiseta grandis Stenroos, Acta. Soc. Fauna et Flora
Fennica, 1898, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 135.
Monommata longiseta grandis Voigt, Forschungsber. Biol. Stat. Plon,
1904, vol. 11, p. 56.
Monommata longiseta grandis Susswasserfauna Deutschlands, 1912,
pt. 14, p. 104.
Monommata longiseta grandis Weber and Montet, Cat. Invert. Suisse,
1918, pt. 11, p. 119.
Monommata orbis grandis Harring, Bull. 81, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1913,
p. 72.
Monommata grandis Harring and Myers, Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts,
Letters, vol. 21, 1924, p. 538, pi. 43, figs. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
The body of this species is elongate and fusiform; the in¬
tegument is slightly stiffened and the outline is fairly constant
in shape. There are two round, red, pigment spots in the posi¬
tion of the lateral antennae that are very characteristic, the
function of which is unknown. The foot is obscurely two-
jointed and the toes often attain the greatest length develop¬
ment of any species in the genus, although they may sometimes
be relatively short. The dorsal antenna is situated on a papil¬
lose prominence of medium size and the lateral antennae are
in the normal position.
The corona is oblique and the disposition of the cilia is nor¬
mal to the genus.
The mastax is intermediate between the virgate and forcipate
types. The fulcrum is about equal to the rami in length, very
broad at the base, tapering to a small, blunt posterior end.
The medial portions of the rami are extended laterally into two
pairs of very thin lamellae; the basal apophysis is large and
separated from the rami proper by a deep sinus ; the alulae are
large and at right angles to the fulcrum. The inner margins
of the rami are equipped with ventral and oral teeth. The ven¬
tral group consists of many, twenty-five or more, comb-like
denticules on each inner margin ; the oral group consists of two
pairs, each having four long, slightly curved, opposing teeth
joined to strong lamellar plates that have their origin on the
ventral sides of the rami. There are no dorsal teeth to the
rami. Each uncus has two teeth; the first, or ventral opposing
pair, are broad and lemellar, with the truncate tips divided into
five small, blunt, tooth-like projections; the dorsal pair are
slender and rod-like. The basal portion of the manubra is
broad and lamellar; the dorsal cell being rectangular and half
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 385
the length of the ventral cell; the median cell is rod-like and
decurved near the tip.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are elongate
and oblong with their longitudinal axis pointing dorso-ven-
trally. There is no constriction between the stomach and in¬
testine. The ovary is very long and the bladder is small. The
foot glands are small and pyriform. The toes vary in size with
the individual, being extremely long in some specimens and not
much longer than the body in others.
The ganglion is large and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
small and contains massed bacteroids. The duct is prominent
and continues without interruption to the outlets on the face of
the corona. There seem to be no subcerebral glands.
There are confluent salivary glands attached to the posterior
part of the mastax, each containing several nuclei.
The eyespot is slightly ventral, situated near the posterior
tip of the ganglion.
Length of the body, 190 — 240/x ; length of right toe,
210 — 400/>t; length of left toe, 150 — 300/x; length of trophi,
35/x.
Monommata grandis is common in permanent bodies of water
in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Florida and Maine. In fact, it may
be considered a cosmopolitan species, being found in both acid
and alkaline waters, wherever collections have been made. Its
nearest relative is Monommata maculata, from which it is
easily separated by the differences in the trophi, the extension
to the outlets to the face of the corona, of the retrocerebral
duct; the presence of confluent salivary glands and the two
round, red, areas in the position of the lateral antennae.
As this is evidently the animal described by Tessin, a new
name will have to be proposed for Monommata grandis, re¬
described by Harring and Myers in 1924. Therefore, that spe¬
cies is now renamed Monommata maculata, new species, Har¬
ring and Myers.
3IONOMaiATA EIVEDRA Myers, new species
PL 24, Figs. 1-3
The body of this species is elongate and cylindrical. The in¬
tegument is slightly stiffened and the shape is fairly constant.
The head is separated from the body by a distinct constriction
with several marked dorsal skin folds. There is a prominent
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tail overhanging the foot and there are several wrinkles at the
point where the body and tail meet. The foot is obscurely two-
jointed and the toes are normal to the genus.
The corona is oblique and the disposition of the cilia is the
same as in the other species of the genus.
The virgate mastax is very small and simple. The fulcrum
is somewhat sigmoidal, long, and slender, tapering gradually
towards the posterior end. The rami are triangular, in ven¬
tral view, without teeth or denticules; the dorsal portion of
each forms almost a right angle with the ventral portion and
the alulae are prominent and divergent. The manubra are re¬
duced to simple rods; there is a dorsal change of direction in
each, forming an obtuse angle, near the posterior end. The
bases of the manubra are produced into very fine rods that rest
on the rami near the middle. There are a pair of excessively
thin lamellar plates connecting the dorsal portion of the rami
with the posterior two-thirds of the manubra.
The oesophagus is long and the gastric glands are small and
oval in shape. The intestine is clear and slightly constricted
at the point of junction with the stomach. The ovary, bladder
and foot glands are normal.
The dorsal antenna is a small setigerous tuft and is not
papillose as in some of the other species of the genus. The
lateral antennae are normal.
The ganglion is large and saccate. There is no apparent
retrocerebral sac. The eyespot is large and dark, situated on
the posterior end of the ganglion ; it has a small globule of high
refractive index just in front of the pigment. There are no
subcerebral glands.
Length of the body, 150/x; length of right toe, 210/^; length of
left toe, 155/x; length of trophi, 25ju,.
Monommata enedra is rare, having been found only in the
acid waters of Aunt Bettie’s Pond, Mt. Desert Island, Maine,
and Lenapi Lake, Atlantic County, New Jersey (pH 6.4). It
is readily distinguished from the other species of the genus by
the absence of a retrocerebral sac; the very small and simple
mastax; the refractive globule in front of the eye-pigment, to¬
gether with the presence of a prominent tail.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V.
887
MONOMMATA AESCHYNA Myers, new species
PI. 24, Figs. 4-6
The body of this species is elongate and fusiform. The head
is separated from the trunk by a slight constriction accented by
several skin folds. The body falls away gradually, from a point
above the junction of the stomach with the intestine, to the
foot which is long and obscurely three-jointed. The toes are
normal to the genus. The dorsal antenna is a setigerous tuft
on a slight prominence and the lateral antennae are in the nor¬
mal position.
The corona is ventrally inclined and has the normal disposi¬
tion of cilia.
The mastax is virgate, small and simple. The fulcrum is
long and straight with the posterior end slightly recurved, and
expanded at the tip for the attachment of the muscles. The
rami are triangular, in ventral view, without teeth or denticula-
tions; the dorsal portion forms a right angle with the ventral
portion. The alulae are prominent and divergent. The basal
apophysis is large, acutely triangular, and separated from the
rami proper by a deep sinus. The manubra are reduced to
simple rods, the basal portions being slightly swollen and the
posterior portions strongly recurved. On the middle of the
dorsal side of each manubrum is a blunt, tooth-like, process
which may be the vestigal remnant of the dorsal cell. There is
one slender tooth in each uncus that rests on the rami at the
point where the anterior and posterior portions form right
angles.
The oesophagus is short and the gastric glands are small and
oval. The stomach and intestine are separated by a slight
constriction. The ovary, bladder and foot glands are normal.
The ganglion is rather small and saccate. The retrocerebral
sac is small, round, and ductless, containing densely clustered
bacteroids at the distal end. The eye is situated on the ventral
side of the ganglion, just forward of the posterior end.
Length of the body, 150/x; length of right toe, 165/^; length of
left toe, 145ju.; length of trophi, 25/x.
Monommata aeschyna is rare. It was collected in Cordoy
Creek, Atlantic County, N. J. (pH 6.0), and in ice ponds at
Mansett, Mt. Desert Island Maine (pH 6.4). In both cases,
this species was found in sphagnum from which it was released
by squeezing the water out of the moss into a watch glass.
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MONOMMATA DIAPHORA Myers, new species
PL 24, Figs. 7-9
The body of this species is very long and cylindrical; it has
a characteristic swelling just above the anterior portion of the
stomach that is constant in all individuals. The foot is stout
and obscurely two- jointed and the toes are, as usual, very long
and normal to the genus.
The dorsal antenna is a setigerous tuft on a slight prom¬
inence and the lateral antennae are in the normal position.
The corona is oblique and the ciliation is normal.
The mastax is virgate. The fulcrum is of moderate length
and diminishes gradually from the base to the posterior end.
There is no basal apophysis. The rami are triangular, in ven¬
tral view, without teeth or denticulations ; the dorsal portion
forms a right angle with the ventral portion, and the alulae
are prominent and divergent. The manubra are reduced to
simple rods and are attached to the rami by a pair of extremely
thin, lamellar plates, that represent the dorsal cells. On the
ventral side of each manubrum, at the point where a dorsal
change of direction occurs, there is a spur resembling a tooth.
There is one slender sigmoidal tooth in each uncus, resting on
each ramus near the middle of the anterior portion.
The oesophagus is short and the gastric glands very small
and round. The stomach and intestine are separated by a
slight constriction. The bladder is very small and the ovary
and foot glands are normal.
The ganglion is large and saccate. The retrocerebral sac
is crowded with bacteroids and has a broken duct with outlets
on the face of the corona. There are a large pair of confluent
salivary glands, with contained nuclei, attached to the posterior
portion of the mastax. The eye is on the ventral side of the
ganglion near the posterior end and there is a small refractive
globule just in front of the red pigment.
Length of the body, 225/.t; length of right toe, 260/x; length of
left toe, 225/x ; length of trophi, 25/x.
Monommata diaphora is fairly common in acid water of the
littoral region of ponds and lakes in Atlantic County, N. J. and
Mt. Desert Island, Maine, (pH 6.2 — 6.4). Superflcially, it re¬
sembles Monommata enedra, but is easily distinguished from it
by the presence of a retrocerebral sac with its broken duct;
Myers—The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 389
the confluent salivary glands; the absence of a prominent tail
and the differences in the trophi,
MONOMMATA APPENDICULATA Stciiroos
PL 25, Figs. 1-4
Monommata appendiculata Stenroos, Acta Soc. Fauna Flora Fennica,
vol. 17, no, 1, 1898, p. 135, pi. 1, figs. 33, 34.
The body of this species is stout and cylindrical. The in¬
tegument is slightly stiffened, finely striated throughout, in¬
cluding the head, making the general shape fairly constant.
There is a slight constriction between the head and the abdomen
marked by several obscure dorsal skin folds. There is a very
prominent tail overhanging the foot, with a well marked con¬
striction at the point where it joins the body. This caudal
projection is very characteristic and seems to be of slightly
stiffer cuticle than the remainder of the body, as it retains its
shape, even in fully contracted individuals.
The foot is indistinctly two- jointed and the toes are normal
in shape, although they are relatively shorter in length than in
most of the species of the genus.
The dorsal antenna is a setigerous tuft on a slight prom¬
inence and the lateral antennae are in the normal positions.
The corona is slightly oblique and the disposition of the cilia
is normal to the genus.
The mastax is very minute, for such a large animal, and is
of the virgate type. The fulcrum is long and, in lateral view,
tapers from the base to the posterior end, which is squarely
truncate. The rami are triangular in ventral view ; the dorsal
portions are gradually bent so that near the tips they are almost
at right angles to the ventral portions. The alulae are large
and divergent. The basal apophysis is acute and acicular.
The unci each have two teeth, appearing as one in lateral view.
The anterior pair are slender and rest on the ventral portions
of the rami near their base; the posterior pair are very thin
and rod-like, resting on the dorsal portions of the rami near the
tips. These teeth are actually the bounding edges of the two
very thin, lamellar plates, the dorsal edges of which rest on the
lateral edges of the rami. The manubra are short and stout,
the basal portions, sub-square and lamellar ; the posterior por¬
tions rod-like and slightly decurved at the ends.
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The oesophagus is long. The gastric glands are small and
oval. There is a slight constriction between the stomach and
the intestine. The bladder is small as are the foot glands. The
ovary is normal.
The ganglion is large and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
large, containing a few scattered bacteroids. The retrocerebral
duct is rudimentary. The eyespot is large and situated on the
posterior end of the ganglion.
Length of the body, 225 — length of right toe,
235 — 250/x; length of left toe, 165 — length of trophi,
25/^.
Monommata appendiculata was collected in Faun Pond,
Witch Hole, Toad Hole and the Barcelona, Mt. Desert Island,
Maine; also, from Bargaintown, Atlantic County, N. J., all
bodies of permanent acid water with an average pH value of
6.6.
In the Synopsis of the Rotifera, Harring gives Monommata
appendiculata as a synonym for Monommata orbis grandis Tes¬
sin, and in the Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, Harring and Myers
give it as a synonym for Monommata grandis Tessin. The
figure and description of Stenroos are correct, as far as they go,
and the species is a perfectly valid one.
Monommata appendiculata may be recognized at once by its
color. The internal organs as well as the integument are al¬
ways, as far as known, of a yellowish orange tint. This, to¬
gether with the stiff posterior appendage (so-called tail) and
the large, clear retrocerebral sac, together with the minute
trophi, are enough to separate it from any other species of the
genus.
MONOMMATA ASTIA Myers, new species
PI. 25, Figs. 5-7
The body of this small species is very long, slender and cylin¬
drical ; it is slightly swollen over the lumbar region from where
it falls rapidly away to the foot. The integument is slightly
stiffened and the body shape is fairly constant.
The head segment is long and narrow and is separated from
the abdomen by a well marked constriction. The foot is ob¬
scurely two- jointed and the toes are, relatively, the shortest of
any species in the genus.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V, 391
The dorsal antenna is a minute setigerous tuft and the lateral
antennae are in the normal position.
The corona is squarely truncate for half its depth, then falls
away abruptly to almost prone, giving the whole a snout-like
appearance. The ciliation is normal to the genus.
The mastax is virgate and very simple. The fulcrum is a
long, slender, sigmoidal rod. The rami are lyrate in ventral
view and approximately at right angles to the fulcrum for their
entire length. Each uncus is an excessively thin, lamellar
plate, the boundaries of which give the impression of very
slender linear teeth. The manubra are reduced to a pair of
simple rods, each with a slight thickening near the middle of
the ventral side. This is a very primitive pumping apparatus
and probably the simplest form of the virgate type of mastax.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are very small
and oblong oval. There is no constriction between the stomach
and the intestine. The ovary, bladder and foot glands are
normal to the genus.
The ganglion is long and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
small, black and crowded with bacteroids. The eyespot is
small, round and situated at the posterior end of the ganglion.
Length of the body, 120/a ; length of right toe, 80/a ; length of
left toe, 65/a ; length of trophi, 15/a.
Monommata astia is common in permanent bodies of acid
water; pH range from 6.0 to 7.0. It is the smallest species in
the genus, very slow and sluggish in movement. The walls of
the stomach are generally crowded with symbiotic zoochlorella
and, altogether, the species is so characteristic that it is not
easily confused with any other.
MONOMMATA CAECA Myers, new species
PL 25, Figs. 8-10
The body of this species is slender and cylindrical. The in¬
tegument is flexible and the outline varies according to the state
of contraction of the individual.
The head segment is relatively short and is separated from
the abdomen by several dorsal folds. The abdomen is slightly
gibbous dorsally and falls away rapidly from the lumbar region
to the foot. The foot is short and obscurely two-jointed. The
toes are long and the shape is normal to the genus.
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The dorsal antenna is a small setigerous tuft on a slight
prominence; the lateral antennae are in the normal position.
The corona is oblique and the ciliation is normal to the genus.
The mastax is virgate. The fulcrum is long and slender, in
lateral view, tapering abruptly from the base to the posterior
tip. The rami are triangular, in ventral view, and the dorsal
portions are bent almost at right angles to the ventral portions.
The alulae are divergent, with their bases at right angles to the
fulcrum. The unci have two linear teeth which meet at their
bases; the ventral pair rest on the rami near the middle; and
the dorsal pair rest on the rami near the tips. The area in¬
closed by the dorsal and ventral teeth of the unci and the lateral
edges of the rami are excessively thin lamellar supporting
plates. The central cell of each manubrum is shaped like a sig¬
moidal rod and the basal portion is pyriform. At the posterior
end of the dorsal cells of the manubra there are small project¬
ing lobes ; the ventral cells are reduced.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are oval and
elongate. There is no constriction between the stomach and in¬
testine. The bladder is very small as are also the foot glands.
The ovary is normal.
The ganglion is moderately large and saccate. The retro-
cerebral sac is large, round and clear, while the duct can be
traced for some distance forward. There is no eyespot.
Length of the body, 170/x; length of right toe, 210/x; length
of left toe, 170;li; length of trophi, 25/x.
Monommata caeca is rare. It was collected at Bargaintown,
Atlantic County, N. J. (pH 6.4), and in a creek that is the
outlet of a pond situated in a depression on the top of a hill,
called The Bowl, Mt. Desert Island, Maine (pH 6.4).
This species cannot be easily confused with any other of the
genus, as it is the only one without an eyespot.
3IONOMMAT'A CAUDATA 3Iyers, new species
PI. 26, Figs. 1-3
The body of this species is elongate and fusiform. The in¬
tegument is flexible and the shape of the body varies with the
state of contraction of the individual.
The head segment is separated from the abdomen by a slight
constriction. The posterior part of the abdomen falls away
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 393
suddenly to the base of a well marked, bifid caudal projection.
The integument is covered with striations that curve dorsally
and meet above the tail. The foot is obscurely three-jointed
and the toes are normal to the genus.
The dorsal antenna is situated well forward, the small
setigerous tuft projects from a minute prominence; the lateral
antennae are in the normal position.
The corona is oblique and the disposition of the ciliation is
normal to the genus.
The mastax is virgate. In lateral view, the fulcrum tapers
suddenly from a wide base to a long, rod-like, posterior portion.
The rami are lyrate, in ventral view, and have two obtuse,
angular projections on the inner sides at the point where the
ventral teeth of the unci rest. The basal apophysis is long,
acute and acicular. The unci each have one apparent linear
tooth ; they are, in reality, the ventral boundaries of thin lamel¬
lar plates resting on the lateral edges of the rami and acting
as supports during pumping action. The dorsal boundaries of
these plates are marked by linear strengthening rods connect¬
ing the dorsal cells of the manubra with the tips of the rami.
The manubra are sub-square and lamellar, ending in slightly
recurved portions. Near the middle of the central cells of each
is a decurved lobe-like projection.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are round and
minute. There is no constriction between the stomach and the
intestine. The bladder, as is usually the case in the genus, is
small. The ovary and foot glands are normal.
The ganglion is moderately large and saccate. The retro-
cerebral sac is small and black with densely packed bacteroids.
The eye is small and situated at the posterior end of the
ganglion.
Length of the body, 180/^; length of right toe, 210/a; length
of left toe, 180/a ; length of trophi, 22/a.
Monommata caudata is rare, the only location where it has
been found being Aunt Bettie's Pond, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
(pH 6.2). As it is the only species in the genus with a bifid
tail and the characteristic longitudinal striations, all meeting
on the dorsal side, it can hardly be confused with any other.
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M0N03IMATA ACTICES Myers, new species
PL 26, Figs. 4-7
The body of this species is slender and cylindrical, falling
away gradually from the neck to the foot. The head segment
is long and set off from the abdomen by several strong, dorsal
projections and skin folds. The integument is covered with
faint longitudinal striations, as are most of the other species of
the genus, omitted in the figures for the sake of clarity unless
very strongly marked. There are a pair of large, round, areas
in the position of the lateral antennae, one on each side of the
abdomen ; they may be either deep red or clear. If clear, and
their presence is unsuspected, they may be made visible as
yellov/ish spots by intravitam staining with brunswick brown.
The foot is obscurely two-jointed and the toes are normal to the
genus.
The dorsal antenna is situated on a papillose prominence and
is in the form of a small tubule from which emerges a setigerous
tuft of cilia. It is interesting to note that the tubule may be
entirely retracted within the integument of the head and its
presence unsuspected. The lateral antennae are in the position
of the lumbar spots.
The corona is oblique and the ciliation is normal to the genus.
The mastax is minute, virgate and very simple. The fulcrum
is long and rod-like, gradually decreasing in lateral view, from
the base for about one-third its length. The rami are very
slender and lyrate, in ventral view. The alulae are rod-like
and divergent. The rami are bent abruptly downward near
the middle to an angle of about one hundred degrees. The unci
each have two short linear teeth; the ventral pair rest on the
rami near the posterior parts of the dorsal portions ; the dorsal
pair rest on the rami near the middle of the dorsal portions.
There are a pair of thin, lamellar supporting plates bounded
by the dorsal teeth of the unci and very fine, linear strengthen¬
ing rods connecting the tips of the rami with the dorsal sides of
the manubra.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are moderately
large and round. There is no constriction between the stomach
and the intestine. The foot glands and bladder are small and
the ovary is normal.
The ganglion is large and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V. 395
small and contains numerous bacteroids clustered on the ven¬
tral side. There are remnants of a retrocerebral duct that can
be traced to the outlets on the corona by intravitam staining
with brilliant cresylblau, or brunswick brown. (When there
is any doubt about the presence of a retrocerebral sac and
ducts, all rotifers should be subjected to intravitam staining,
as these organs are often invisible without it) . There is a sug¬
gestion of confluent salivary glands and the eyespot is at the
posterior end of the ganglion.
Length of the body, 195/x; length of right toe, 210ft; length
of left toe, 150ft; length of trophi, 22ft.
Monommata actices is not uncommon in permanent bodies of
acid water in Atlantic County, N. J. and on Mt. Desert Island,
Maine (pH 6.4 — 6.8) . The presence of the revertile, tubular,
dorsal antenna, situated on a prominent papilla, and the red,
or clear, lumbar areas, together with the fact that the stomach
is generally crowded with green symbiotic zoochlorella, enable
this species to be easily determined when seen.
MONOMMATA PHOXA Myers, new species
PL 26, Figs. 8-10
The body of this species is long and cylindrical; its shape
varies with the state of contraction of the individual, as the
integument is quite flexible.
The head segment is moderately long and separated from
the abdomen by a slight constriction with several dorsal skin
folds. The foot is obscurely two- jointed and the toes are nor¬
mal to the genus.
The dorsal antenna is a minute, setigerous tuft, emerging
from a small prominence ; the lateral antennae are in the usual
position and normal to the genus.
The corona is oblique and the ciliation is normal.
The mastax is virgate. The fulcrum is very long, expanded
and serrate at the posterior end for the attachment of the hypo-
pharynx. The rami are bent at nearly right angles near the
middle and are lyrate, in ventral view. The alulae are large,
triangular, and at right angles to the fulcrum. Each uncus
has a cluster of five or six linear teeth arising from a common
base and resting on the ventral portions of the rami near their
points of junction with the fulcrum. There are a pair of linear
rods running from the tips of the rami, appearing to be con-
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tinuations of the bases of the two clusters of teeth referred to
above. These rods mark the limits of two very thin, lamellar,
supporting plates that rest on the lateral sides of the rami.
The basal portions of the manubra are rectangular; the dorsal
cells are large and each has a decurved lobe-like projection at
the posterior angle. The posterior ends of the middle cells
are expanded and slightly decurved. There are no ventral cells.
The oesophagus is short. The gastric glands are very small
and round. There is a well marked constriction between the
stomach and the intestine. The bladder and foot glands are
small and the ovary is normal.
The ganglion is small and saccate. The retrocerebral sac is
small and contains clustered bacteroids ; the duct may be traced
for some distance forward. The eye is small and situated on
the ventral side of the ganglion near the posterior end.
Length of the body, 150/x; length of right toe, 190/^; length
of left toe, 14:0 fjL ; length of trophi, 35ft.
Monommata phoxa is evidently rare. It was collected in
an acid pond (pH 4.4) near English Creek, Atlantic County,
N. J. The characters are rather negative and the trophi should
be examined in order to determine the species.
For the benefit of those interested in what has been done
with the rotifers, this occasion is taken to add the following
abstracts and comments, quoting freely from the various
authorities.
AFFINITIES
There are very few groups in the animal kingdom with which
the rotifers have not at some time or other been supposed to be
related, and it is hardly worth while to go into the views of
the pioneers on this subject. Ehrenberg was the first to sep¬
arate the rotifers definitely from the Protozoa ; what was left of
the old confusion fell to the ground on the advent of the cell-
theory. However, it has been proposed that the rotifers and
the Gastrotricha may help us bridge the gap between the Proto¬
zoa and the Metazoa by the simplicity of their organization and
the syncytial character of their tissue, admitting that most of
the special characteristics of the rotifers are regressive rather
than primitive, in view of their evident relationships with other
groups of specialized worms. It is not probable that a large
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 397
group of highly specialized organisms can be derived from a
lower group, already specialized in quite a diiferent direction,
and we cannot derive the Metazoa from the higher Infusoria, as
the multiplication of the nuclei and the differentiation were
contemporaneous.
Arthropod relationships have been postulated for the rotifers
repeatedly by homologizing the hard pieces of the mastax with
the oral armature of the insects and in the existence of a post-
anal segment in the early development of the blastopore. Hud¬
son attempted to discover affinities between Pedalion and the
nauplius-larva. The morphological significance of Pedalion has
been much exaggerated ; its appendages are not articulated and
two of them are unpaired, fundamentally different from the
Arthropoda. It is true that this is not absolute proof, because
the ancestral forms, before acquiring metameric and articulated
appendages, must have had something simpler ; the real reason
is that the rotifers and especially Pedalion, are too highly spe¬
cialized to have become the ancestors of another large group,
which would have had to lose the special characteristics and
acquire others in their place. Affinities with the Nematoda
through Gastrotricha-Kinorhyncha-Chaetognatha are hardly
less problematic.
Coming now to the problem of postulating affinities between
rotifers and various metazoan larvae, which has been examined
and usually adopted by most authors who have studied this
problem, the theory which makes the rotifer equivalent to the
trochophore of the Annelida and related groups suffers from a
serious fundamental objection. How far is it legitimate to
compare a larva with an adult; how far is the parallelism of
ontogeny and phylogeny supported by facts sufficient to sustain
such an hypothesis? There are two questions involved in the
trochophore theory as it is usually presented. First : Does the
trochophore of to-day actually repeat the forms of an annelid
ancestor? Second: Is the rotifer really comparable to the
trochophore? Affirming the first will involve the colonial the¬
ory of metemerism, but regardless of accepting or rejecting
this, it would be possible to affirm the second. According to
the first statement the rotifer must be a direct descendant of
the trochophore ancestor of the Nephridiates, if not in truth
the real ancestor itself. In the second case it is simply an
annelid larva which by neoteny must have acquired genital
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glands and become an independent organism. In order to de¬
cide, we will have to review the organization of the rotifers
and compare it with the trochophore and the adult forms of
related groups.
First, we must dispose of a point of some importance in this
comparison : Is the adult annelid simply a trochophore which
has become elongated and segmented, or is it a different animal
formed by budding from the trochophore, something like a
medusa. The pluteus-larva does not metamorphose into a sea-
urchin or the trochophore into an annelid; in these cases one
individual only is present, forming transitory organs, absorbing
them again and developing others, and we find all the inter¬
mediates between this metagenetic and the perfectly straight
development, if such really exists.
A comparison of the general form of rotifers and the trocho¬
phore is without interest as it is extremely variable in both
groups. And we must realize that no significance whatever is
to be attached to the famous genus Trochosphaera, usually
considered as proving the above theory: its spherical form is
just as rare among annelids as among rotifers, and is simply a
secondary adaptation like everything else in its organization.
As to the discussion of homologies of the different organs of the
annelids, rotifers and the trochophore, they must be consid¬
ered without any foundation in reality. Only one point is
worthy of notice: the presence of a post-anal section adapted
to fixation, the so-called foot, in nearly all rotifers. It is not
difficult to follow its gradual development, but nevertheless it
is an important difference between rotifers and drochophores,
because it is quite evident that the few genera without foot
have lost it by adaptation to special conditions, especially to a
pelagic life.
There is another question of much greater importance; that
of the coelome, and also of the nephridia, which is bound up
with it. We know that in the Platodes the space between the
ectoderm and endoderm is filled with parenchyma, derived
mainly from the ectoderm, and from which the muscular fibres
are differentiated. In the trochophore we find a similar paren¬
chyma distributed in what remains of the segmentation cavity,
the blastocoele, and from this the larval muscles originate. But
in the adult the coelomic sacs, formed from the mesoderm,
which have furnished the endoderm near the lower extremity.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 399
invade the blastocoele, push back the primitive mesenchyme and
form the coelomic cavity, lined with epithelium, its walls fur¬
nishing the muscalature of the body and digestive tube. In the
molluscs this parenchyma furnishes only the pericardium, the
kidneys and the glands. This ectomesoblast and coelomesoblast
are quite distinct, as they succeed each other in the same
animal.
If we now apply this to rotifers, we find a vast body cavity,
which might be taken for a coelome; it is, however, without
trace of epithelium and contains as mesoderm only a few scat¬
tered cells of unknown origin, and the muscles, which originate
from the ectoderm ; it is thus an ectomesoblast, comparable with
the parenchyma of the Turbeliaria, from which it differs only
in its tenuity, leaving the blastocoele cavity all but empty.
But the ovary of the rotifers is derived from the endoderm, and
they are therefore in the ectomesoblastic stage of the Platodes,
more primitive than the molluscs or the adult annelid.
The nervous system of the rotifers is insufficiently known to
be of any use in this comparison. The supposed suboesopha-
geal ganglion is in no sense an independent nerve center, but a
few cells imbedded in the walls of the mastax; it is not even
certain that they are nerve cells, but it may be a mastax gang¬
lion and certainly has nothing to do with the suboesophageal
ganglion of the Annelida.
More important, because absolutely limited to the rotifers
and the Gastrotricha are the sensory tentacles, typically in two
pairs, but reduced to three among the majority of the rotifers
by fusion of the upper pair. They are never present in the
trochophore and are obviously the product of a long course of
evolution.
In the digestive tract the only important organ in our review
is the mastax. Although this is evidently homologous with the
stomodeal formations in related groups, maxillary bulb and
radula, it cannot be derived from either or vice versa; their
origin must be sought in the triradiate pharynx of the Tur¬
beliaria.
The ciliation must be admitted as of importance in the study
of the phylogeny of the rotifers. It is the only argument for
a relationship between the rotifers and the trochophore. But
a study of the animals shows the greatest variation in both
groups, and also that the rotifers and the larval forms men-
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tioned are the only Artiozoa moving by swimming with the aid
of vibratile cilia and if external causes react upon the ciliation,
it is not surprising that the same causes should have produced
similar effects on unrelated animals and that, starting from
uniformly ciliated ancestors, the various trochophores as well
as the various rotifers have developed without ever having had
any common ancestor possessing their general characters.
Many of the characters reviewed are common to the rotifers
and the trochophore. But all that are larval characteristics
(mesenchyme and nephridial) in the annelids and molluscs and
on which the homologisation has been founded, are adult char¬
acteristics among the Platodes and the Turbellaria, for instance,
and there is no reason whatever in favor of any one relationship
rather than some other. We have considered the only remain¬
ing characteristic, the ciliation, which is not found in adult
animals other than the rotifers and the Gastrotricha. If the
colonial theory is ruled out, there remains only the neoteny
hypothesis: possible, but absolutely unproven and unprovable.
There is nothing to show that the ancestors of the rotifers ever
were metameric or possessed a coelome, and there is no indi¬
cation that any group in the animal kingdom originated in this
way.
Many views have been advanced as to the affinities of the
rotifers, especially as regards their relationships to higher
forms; these opinions will not, however, be fully considered
here, but merely indicated, attention being directed first to the
relationships in which rotifers stand to organisms lower in the
scale. In this connection the excretory system becomes of no
little importance on account of its resemblance to that of the
Turbellaria, a resemblance which is further emphasized by the
nervous system, consisting of a simple brain from which the
posteriorly-directed nerve-cords arise; by the combined ovary
and vitellarium, and by the absence of a blood vascular system.
Here, however, the resemblance ceases, and the presence of an
anal opening to the digestive tube marks the rotifers as stand¬
ing on a higher level than the Turbellaria. It seems probable,
however, that the similarities do indicate the ancestry, and that
the Rotifera have been derived from the Turbellarian type.
Another possibility which has been suggested is to the effect
that they are derived from the trochophore larvae of the An¬
nelida. The principal argument for this view is found in the
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V. 401
arrangement of the trochal cilia, which, in the occurrence in
many cases of both preoral and postoral bands, certainly re¬
sembles not a little that of the trochophore larva. It must be
remembered, however, that the similarity in the arrangement
of the cilia is not quite perfect, and that it may be without
phylogenetic significance, having been acquired independently
in the rotifers and in the trochophore larva ; and furthermore,
it is noticeable that in one important character at least, a
marked difference is found, the nervous ganglion lying in the
rotifers behind instead of before the preoral band of cilia.
The most that can be said at the present is that the rotifers
show closer structural affinities to the Turbellaria than to any
other group, and that it is probable that they represent the
culmination of a line of development originating in that group ;
and furthermore, that it is possible that they represent the
ancestral annelid form indicated by the trochophore larva.
In contradistinction to almost all other great divisions of the
animal kingdom which are bound to fresh water, the fresh
water seems to be the real home of the rotifers, the element in
which the group originated. What characterizes the fresh
water fauna is that it is an emigrant fauna, either derived
from the sea or from the land ; a fauna of emigrants, the home
of which was originally to be found everywhere, not only in
the element in which it now lives : the fresh water itself. Ow¬
ing to the peculiar conservatory power of the fresh water
with regard to all types of animals which, from the oldest
epochs of the earth to our own day, escape into it, the fresh
water fauna is a relict fauna, to which the oldest prehistoric
oceans as well as our present ones have provided and still pro¬
vide their contingents. We are not for a moment in doubt that
the developmental centers of the Bryozoa, Sponges, Crustacea,
Coelenterates, Insects, Molluscs and Fishes have never lain in
the fresh water; what occurs of these great divisions in the
fresh water is only to be regarded as remnants, separated from
the main stock, often in the dawn of the earth. As far as we
have been able to see, the Rotifera is the only division of fresh¬
water organisms which can not be regarded from this point of
view. It seems as if their developmental center has really
been in the fresh waters; they are almost lacking in the sea,
and apart from the very aberrant Seisonacea, they never de¬
velop special forms there. That the land rotifers, the moss
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fauna of the trees and rocks, are derived from fresh water,
needs no further explanation. Owing to this view, which is
permissible, especially with regard to animals about whose
phylogeny paleontology gives no answer at all, we are disin¬
clined to see near relationship with marine animals.
This view is further strengthened by the following fact. If
we survey the other fresh-water organisms of marine deriva¬
tion, it is easy to show that the members of these different
phyla, the Sponges, the Bryozoa, the Coelenterates, the Crusta¬
cea and the Fishes, are a remarkably casual medley of organ¬
isms, whose affinities are often much nearer to marine organ¬
isms than to fresh water organisms of the same phyla, with
which they live side by side. At the present time they fre¬
quently show no affinities at all with organisms from the pres¬
ent geological epoch, whereas their affinities with extinct
marine animals are to be regarded as established facts. How¬
ever different the rotifers may be, this view does not apply ; the
very fact that so many of the families may be arranged in de¬
velopmental lines with their extreme stages finishing as plank¬
ton organisms and their origin traced back to creeping organ¬
isms, gives support to the idea that they have a common source.
That all these developmental lines actually did originate in
fresh water and not in the sea, is in our opinion obvious, be¬
cause they have, during their development, adapted themselves
biologically to the rules which many other fresh-water organ¬
isms have been forced to follow, if this element was to be their
home ; one thinks especially of the reproduction, the heterogony,
the importance of the resting eggs in the life history of the
rotifers, all phenomena which the rotifers share with so many
other fresh water organisms and which occur but rarely or not
at all in the marine forms.
If this supposition of the fresh water as the original home
of the rotifers is correct, and if it is also true that the creeping,
slowly swimming bottom and littoral forms are the most primi¬
tive, then the Turbellaria appear to be the freshwater group to
which the rotifers are most closely related. This view is based
especially upon the structure of the excretory organs, alike in
both groups, and the corona. It is at all events not weakened
by a consideration of the biology of the animals, especially the
reproduction of the fresh water Turbellaria, where we find the
same phenomena governing the rotifers, such as heterogony.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin. V.
403
parthenogenesis, resting eggs and the absence of the larval
stage.
The great majority of the rotifers live in fresh water, a
much smaller number lives in brackish water and the smallest
number of all is purely marine.
EMBRYOLOGY
The development of the rotifers is very imperfectly known.
Early attempts to elucidate the subject failed, largely on ac¬
count of the imperfections of available technique and the con¬
clusions drawn were misleading. All authors agree that the
parthenogenetic egg passed through only a single maturation
division, without any reduction of the chromosome number and
with the formation of a single polar body.
The development of Asplanchna ebbesbornii has been studied,
as has also that of Asplanchna priodonta, which throws some
light on the subject. It seems that there is no trace of gas-
trulation, epibolic or any other kind. What has been univer¬
sally interpreted as endoderm is simply the germ-cells of the
genital organs, which eventually wander into the interior.
The blastoderm is at a very early age divisible into definite
germinal areas or cell-complexes, which gradually develop into
the various organs of the body. If any proof of the absence
of gastrulation were needed, it is furnished by the development
of the stomach. This begins on the dorsal side, and when the
ventral cell layer of the stomach is fully formed, the dorsal
wall is still a part of the blastoderm on the dorsal surface,
without any covering cell layer or integument.
The embryology of the rotifers is thus a very simple and
primitive process, with each organ developing from a definite
cell complex of the blastoderm. Cell divisions proceed rapidly
until all organs possess their full component of cells; then it
ends, definitely and forever; the body of each rotifer has a
constant number of cells. It is constant for the same species ;
whether all rotifers have the same number of cells, regardless
of species, is unknown. Nine hundred and eighty-six have been
counted in Hydatina senta and an estimate of 900 for As¬
planchna priodonta. This cell-constancy must not be supposed
to bring in its train any form-rigidity; Stephanoceros, for in¬
stance, is able to regenerate the arms of the corona, even all
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five at a time, if necessary, and thus does not show any greater
rigidity than other organisms without cell-constancy. The
free-swimming young of Apsilus vorax has exactly the same
number of cells in the same place as the fixed adult animal;
the “metamorphosis’" is only an instance of cell differentiation.
ROTIFERA-GASTROTRICHA ^
The majority of textbooks in use today still refer the rotifers
to the phylum Trochelminthes, which is supposed to include the
rotifers, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha, Archiannelida, Histriob-
dellia and Dinophilus. No one familiar with any of these
groups now considers them closely related and there is no
justification for maintaining this phylum any longer. The
consensus of opinion among students of the rotifers is that they
are closely related to the Turbellaria. A vast amount of in¬
formation has been brought forward on the Gastrotricha in the
last few years and some 30 marine species have been discovered
where previously only three were known. The fresh water
Gastrotricha are so much alike and so simple in their mor¬
phology that they do not give any clue to their relationship;
the marine order Macrodasyoidea, on the other hand, are much
more complex and also much more varied, and it is quite evi¬
dent that they are closely related to the Nematoda; the fresh
water order Chaetonotoidea is shown to be a highly specialized,
and in many respects a somewhat degenerate group. The Gas¬
trotricha are also related to the Arachiannelida and thus, dis¬
tantly through this group to the Annelida.
OOGENESIS
In all rotifers with distinct sexes, two kinds of eggs are
formed by distinct categories of females. One kind of egg is
absolutely parthenogenetic and always produces a female. The
other kind is faculatively or incidentally parthenogenetic; if
this egg remains unfertilized it develops into a male, if fertil¬
ized it becomes a resting egg, which eventually develops into a
female.
The faculatively parthenogenetic egg possesses a normal
oogenesis, similar to all normal metazoan eggs ; a synaptic pro-
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V, 405
phase is formed very early; there is a pseudoreduction of the
chromosome number, followed by normal maturation divisions.
The haploid chromosome number is 8 in Asplanchna priodonta.
This egg is fertilizable in its early development; if fertilized
it develops into a large, thick-shelled resting egg. The nuclear
changes and maturation divisions do not differ materially from
the unfertilized male egg.
The oogenesis of the absolutely parthenogenetic egg is
atypical. The nucleus remains inactive until shortly before
the maturation division, when it moves to the periphery of the
egg, passes rapidly through a somatic prophase; this is fol¬
lowed by a single maturation division, which is a somatic
mitosis. The egg thus remains diploid and is notable for the
loss of the reduction division and the total absence of a synaptic
prophase, which is an absolutely necessary preliminary to a re¬
duction division.
The sexual process is a succession of nuclear changes, pass¬
ing from diploidy through haploidy and again to diploidy, a
regular sequence through synaptic prophase, reduction divi¬
sions and nuclear coalescence. This process we will call mixis,
without limiting it by minor details or including any theories
of inheritance. With this definition the normal egg-cells and
spermatozoa are mictic cells, and the faculative parthenogenetic
eggs of rotifers are faculatively mictic cells. The absolutely
parthenogenetic rotifer egg is characterized by being unfer-
tilizable, the loss of the reduction division and the synaptic
prophase.
This form of the sexual process may be called amixis and
the resulting eggs are thus amictic. Probably all metazoan
parthenogenetic, diploid eggs belong here. As these eggs are
developed in different animals in the species of Asplanchna, it
is better to call these mictic and amictic females rather than
male-producing or female-producing females, sexual females,
etc.
The single nuclear spindle of the amictic egg is atypic in
form. The achromatic figure is a semi-ellipse or truncate cone,
with its base on the egg membrane. The centrosome appears
in the center of the egg-plasma, away from the nucleus, at the
beginning of the prophase ; it is evident that this does not pass
through any division. This unusual behavior of the cen¬
trosome is probably accounted for by the nature of the amictic
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egg. In it the maturation division has become a meaningless
rudimentary process, but the centrosome has acquired a new
function; in the mictic egg the centrosome disappears; in the
amictic egg the centrosome passes to the new generation, be¬
coming active in the first segmentation division.
DESICCATION
The ability of certain rotifers, tardigrades and nematodes to
withstand periods of desiccation has been known for over two
hundred years.
Various explanations and theories have been advanced from
time to time since then attempting to explain the phenomenon
and the question intermittently discussed without adding any¬
thing substantial to what was already known. Not until Dr.
Hickernell, then a graduate student at Princeton University,
took up the work in 1914, was any real light shed on the puzzle.
He attacked it from a cytological standpoint and obtained re-
m.arkable results. In the living animal the nucleus of the in¬
dividual cell shows a central, densely stained karyosome sur¬
rounded by a clear space, and around this a fairly thin nuclear
membrane. The nucleus of the dried animal virtually loses its
affinity for stains ; the karyosome disappears and what remains
of the chromatin has collected on the nuclear wall. These
changes are most easily seen in the large cells of the ovary, but
are found in all the cells of the body. When the dried rotifer
is again moistened, the exact reverse of this phenomenon takes
place; the chromatin gradually leaves the nuclear wall and
gathers in the center. The purpose of all this is to keep the
chromatin in the position where it will most effectively carry
out the breaking-down of complex food materials in the cyto¬
plasm, with consequent release of the metabolic water during
the process. Thus the dried rotifer is able to use its stored up
food reserves at an exceedingly slow rate, so slow that animals
have been kept for twenty-seven years in the dried state and
revived upon moistening.
It thus seems that the desiccation problem is solved and the
solution is as beautiful as it is simple.
Myers — The Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin, V,
407
DURATION OF LIFE
Actual information on the attainable age of the rotifers is
obviously limited to laboratory conditions and this again is de¬
pendent on the skill of the experimenter in approaching natural
conditions, especially in providing the proper food. The sessile
rotifers and the Bdelloids apparently live much longer than the
free swimming Ploima. Thus Mr. Bryce maintained several
specimens of Macrotrachela multispinosa alive 4 months from
the date the moss containing them was mailed from Washing¬
ton, and Cori kept Cupelophagus vorax in the laboratory for 6
weeks. Spemann finds for Rotaria rotatoria a maximum of 11
weeks and an average of 5 weeks. On the other hand, the “lab¬
oratory rotifer”, Epiphanes senta, belonging to the Ploima,
lives on an average of about 2 weeks; Miss Noyes obtained for
Proales decipiens an average of 6 to 7 days, and Lehmensick
3 weeks for Euchlanis triquetra. As to how long the animals
would live under natural conditions would be useless to guess;
we do not know whether any rotifer ever lived long enough to
die of old age; the probability is that the vast majority, if not
all, meet an untimely death, as they serve as food for nearly all
small aquatic animals.
No considerable contribution to the morphology of the roti¬
fers has been made in the last twenty years.
The most important result of the anatomical investigations is
the demonstration of cell-constancy for Epiphanes senta by
Martini and for Asplanchna priodonta by Nachtwey who has
studied also the embryology of the species. He found there is
no gastrulation ; what has been interpreted as such is the in¬
vagination of the largest cell of quadrant D in the 4-cell stage,
the only macromere in the embryo, which is the origin of the
entire genital system. Mastax and oesophagus are developed
from an antero-ventral invagination, the balance of the digest¬
ive tract from a dorsal invagination. It is evident that the
rotifer development stands alone and that it is incorrect to speak
of either endoderm or mesoderm.
The cytology of reproduction has been studied by Storch and
Tauson. There are only two kinds of female rotifers, fertil-
izable and non-fertilizable ; for the first, as stated previously,
Storch has proposed the name mictic, for the second, amictic.
408 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
Sex determination has been studied by Luntz and is shown
to be dependent on a change of diet.
Seasonal and local variations have been studied by many
authors and explained in almost as many ways. At times di¬
rectly opposite conclusions have been drawn from studies of the
same animal. It has never been established that the same line
may develop the extreme forms generally considered as belong¬
ing to a single species ; in the least doubtful cases the line may
contain, 2, at times 3, forms ‘‘of repose'' passing more or less
readily from one to another, without necessarily passing
through intermediate stages ; a change of diet is certainly to be
reckoned among the causative factors of this transformation;
the adaptive nature of variation in rotifers has not been dem¬
onstrated.
Evidently the rotifers are an isolated group, even more so
than was formerly supposed.
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de la France et de la Belgique. Paris. Pp. 52-155. 1928.
410 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters,
Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Explanation of Plates
PLATE 10
Euchlanis dilatata, acid water form with long lorica, dorsal.
Euchlanis dilatata, acid water form with long lorica, ventral.
Euchlanis dilatata, acid water form with long lorica, lateral.
PLATE 11
Fig. 1. Euchlanis dilatata, normal form, lateral.
Fig. 2. Euchlanis dilatata, lorica, ventral.
Fig. 3. Euchlanis dilatata, lorica, rear.
Fig. 4. Euchlanis dilatata, form with deep dorsal plate, rear.
Fig. 5. Euchlanis dilatata, lorica, lateral.
Fig. 6. Euchlanis dilatata, lorica, cross-section.
Fig. 7. Euchlanis dilatata, lorica, triradiate form, rear.
Fig. S. Euchlanis dilatata, trophi, frontal.
PLATE 12
Fig. 1. Euchlanis parva, lateral.
Fig. 2. Euchlanis parva, lorica, ventral.
Fig. 3. Euchlanis parva, cross-section.
Fig. 4. Euchlanis parva, trophi, frontal.
Fig. 6. Euchlanis parva, posterior notch.
Fig. 6. Euchlanis parva, section at A, fig. 5.
Fig. 7. Euchlanis oropha, lorica, ventral.
Fig. 8. Euchlanis oropha, lorica, cross-section.
Fig. 9. Euchlanis oropha, trophi, frontal.
Fig. 10. Euchlanis oropha, toe, lateral.
Fig. 11. Euchlanis, lateral antenna.
Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
PLATE 13
triquetra, lateral.
triquetra, lorica, ventral.
triquetra, lorica, rear.
triquetra, lorica, cross-section.
triquetra, trophi, frontal.
PLATE 14
phryne, dorsal.
pellucida, lorica, dorsal.
pellucida, lorica, cross-section.
pellucida, variety, lorica, cross-section.
pellucida, trophi, frontal.
pellucida, toes, dorsal.
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Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.
Fig. 7.
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Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Fig. 5.
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Fig. 6.
Fig. 7.
Fig. 8.
Fig. 9.
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PLATE 15
Euchlanis phryne, lorica, ventral.
Euchlanis phryne, lorica, cross-section.
Euchlanis phryne, trophi, frontal.
Euchlanis phryne, trophi, lateral.
Dapidia pyriformis, lorica, ventral.
Dapidia pyriformis, lorica, front.
Dapidia pyriformis, trophi, frontal.
PLATE 16
Euchlanis alata,
Euchlanis alata,
Euchlanis alata,
Euchlanis alata,
Euchlanis alata,
Jersey.
dorsal.
lorica, ventral.
lorica, form without “wings”.
lorica, cross-section. Specimen from Maine.
lorica, cross-section. Specimen from New
PLATE 17
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
Euchlanis
alata, lorica, lateral oblique, “winged” form.
alata, lorica, posterior oblique, “winged” form.
alata, trophi, frontal.
alata, trophi, lateral.
alata, toe, lateral.
callysta, lateral.
callysta, lorica, ventral.
callysta, trophi, frontal.
callysta, lorica, cross-section.
PLATE 18
Euchlanis lyra, lateral.
Euchlanis lyra, lorica, ventral. Specimen from Epping For¬
est, England.
Euchlanis lyra, lorica, ventral. Specimen from Donavesh-
ingen, Baden.
Euchlanis lyra, lorica, cross-section.
Euchlanis lyra, trophi, frontal.
PLATE 19
Euchlanis proxima, lateral.
Euchlanis proxima, lorica, ventral.
Euchlanis proxima, trophi, frontal.
Euchlanis proxima, lorica, cross-section.
Euchlanis meneta, lateral.
Euchlanis meneta, lorica, dorsal.
Euchlanis meneta, cross-section, normal form; dotted line, tri-
radiate form.
Euchlanis meneta, trophi, frontal.
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PLATE 20
Dapidia calpidia, dorsal.
Dapidia calpidia, lorica, cross section.
Dapidia calpidia, lorica, cross-section, triradiate form.
Dapidia calpidia, lorica, cross-section, deep dorsal plate.
Dapidia calpidia, trophi, frontal.
Dapidia calpidia, trophi, lateral.
Dapidia calpidia, lorica, ventral. Specimen from Starvation
Lake, Wisconsin.
Dapidia calpidia, lorica, cross-section. Specimen from Starva¬
tion Lake, Wisconsin.
PLATE 21
Dapidia deflexa, dorsal.
Dapidia deflexa, lorica, ventral.
Dapidia deflexa, lorica, cross-section.
Dapidia deflexa, toe, lateral.
Dapidia deflexa, trophi, frontal.
PLATE 22
Tripleuchlanis plicata, dorsal.
Tripleuchlanis plicata, lateral.
Tripleuchlanis plicata, lorica, cross-section.
Tripleuchlanis plicata, trophi, dorsal.
Dipeuchlanis propatula, lorica, dorsal.
Dipeuchlanis propatula, lorica, cross-section.
Dipeuchlanis propatula, trophi, frontal.
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
Monommata
PLATE 23
hyalina, lateral.
hyalina, trophi, oblique frontal.
hyalina, trophi, lateral.
grandis, lateral.
grandis, trophi, oblique frontal.
grandis, trophi, lateral.
grandis, trophi, dorsal.
PLATE 24
enedra, lateral.
enedra, trophi, oblique frontal.
enedra, trophi, lateral.
aeschyna, lateral.
aeschyna, trophi, ventral.
aeschyna, trophi, lateral.
diaphora, lateral.
diaphora, trophi, lateral.
diaphora, trophi, ventral.
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PLATE 25
Fig. 1. Monommata appendiculata, lateral.
Fig. 2. Monommata appendiculata, trophi, ventral.
Fig. 3. Monommata appendiculata, trophi, lateral.
Fig. 4. Monommata appendiculata, posterior end body, dorsal.
Fig. 5. Monommata astia, lateral.
Fig. 6. Monommata astia, trophi, frontal.
Fig. 7. Monommata astia. trophi, lateral.
Fig. 8. Monommata caeca, lateral.
Fig. 9. Monommata caeca, trophi, lateral.
Fig. 10. Monommata caeca, trophi, ventral.
PLATE 26
Fig. 1. Monommata caudata, lateral.
Fig. 2. Monommata caudata, trophi, frontal oblique.
Fig. 3. Monommata caeca, trophi, lateral.
Fig. 4. Monommata actices, lateral.
Fig. 5. Monommata actices, trophi, ventral.
Fig. 6. Monommata actices, trophi, lateral.
Fig. 7. Monommata actices, dorsal antenna.
Fig. 8. Monommata phoxa, lateral.
Fig. 9. Monommata phoxa, trophi, ventral.
Fig. 10. Monommata phoxa, trophi, lateral.
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