30 Schively—Recent Observations on 
particularly good, I did not attach much importance to 
this fact. 
During the summer of 1898, I raised in the University 
greenhouses, plants from seeds of undoubted A. monoica (pur- 
ple flower), from A. Pitchert which had been sent me from 
Iowa, and also plants of the white-flowered type. These were 
grown in the same kind of soil, and under precisely the same 
conditions of temperature, moisture, etc. Unfortunately, the 
plants did not flower as abundantly as I should have liked, 
but the same results in regard to number of seeds in the vari- 
ous legumes were again noticed. 
The subterranean legumes of A. monoica and A. Pitcheri 
were large, thick, deep purple-pink in color, and varied froma 
half to three-quarters of an inch or sometimes an inch in 
length. No difference could be distinguished in the appear- 
ance of these legumes. 
Those produced by the Strafford variety were small, more 
spherical, none exceeded a half inch in length, and they were 
strikingly colorless. Here and there, a legume showed a 
pinkish hue ; but as a whole, the fruits presented a pure white 
appearance as the underground parts of the plants were 
exposed. 
It may be that we have here a new variety. I have noticed 
the following differences—but doubtless there are others. 
The Strafford form exhibits a want of dark purple hue in the 
stem, as well as in the flowers and legumes ; the aerial seeds 
too are much smaller than those produced from the purple 
flowers. The plant is less hairy, and possesses fewer axillary 
runners than the ordinary type. 
My intention is to plant the seeds, both subterranean and 
aerial, and ascertain whether these peculiarities persist. In 
the coming summer, the plants of the purple-flowered and the 
white forms will be carefully compared. 
