140 AUTUMN NOTES IN IOWA 



^^ weeds," can be made for November. This year 

 the following- plants have been found in bloom 

 sometime during the month : ^^ 



Aster, Dense-flowered. Aster multiflorus. 



Catnip. 



Clover, Red. Trifolium pratense. 



Clover, White. T. repens. (?) 



Dandelions. 



Knotweed. Polygonum ; species not determined. 



Shepherd's Purse. 



Soapwort. Saponaria officinalis. 



Sow-thistle, Spiny. Sonchus asper. 



Sweet Clover, White. 



Wild Peppergrass. Lepidium virginicum. 



Wood-sorrel, Yellow. Oxalis corniculata stric- 

 ta. (?) 



Proverbial w^eather lore says that if flowers 

 bloom in November the winter will be severe. We 

 do not believe that will hold true of this locality. 



This is the season when local papers in many 

 parts of the corn-belt relate the mighty deeds of 

 the cornhuskers. In 1902, Iowa papers gave these 

 records among others: Eighty-five bushels in 

 nine and a half hours — by a woman ; and, wonder 

 of wonders, two hundred and ten bushels in ten 

 hours, by a man who claimed the Avorld champion- 

 ship. So far the records this year do not seem 

 very unusual. From Oklahoma, one hundred and 



See Appendix, Note 22, 



