Abstract
Trifolium repens appeared in unusually large proportions in our lawn. What we understand as out of the ordinary was the appearance of several ripe fruits in our Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria majalis) plants. The percentage of bearing ones was quite small. Among the unusual objects were two fungi. One was a tiny agaric, Psathyrella disseminata Pers., and a puffball, Calvatia rubroflava (Cragin) Lloyd. The former was noticeable for its small size, the latter for its decided yellow or orange color. Both of these appeared in our garden and I have never observed them elsewhere. We made pictures of two Hollyhock plants that grew in what seemed to be ordinary garden soil. The taller of these was eleven feet, seven inches in height. What appeared to us as the most striking phenomenon of the year was a plant of Liatris punctata, a member of the great composite family, in which the carpellate number is definitely fixed at two. Nevertheless, the many flowers of the long spike each possessed a three parted stigma. Furthermore this was a wild specimen and had not been subjected to the influences of cultivation and domestication.
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