60 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [yanuant | 
the steward. The plant had no well developed underground tubers, 1 
but the stem above ground had developed on it upwards of fi) well 
formed tubers, varying in size from a half inch to two inches in diame: 
ter. Nor were they confined to the portion of the stem near the : 
ground, but extended up the stem almost to the top. It is true th 
stem was not erect, but it was not more prostrate than others about 
it. The tubers were located in the axils of the normal leaves : 
some instances there was only one tuber in the axil of the leaf, in others: 
“eye” of the underground potato. In one or two instances, howev 
a branch was developed which, in turn, had three or four leaves. A 
cut shows one of these stems with its leaves, Z marking the no : 
leaf, Z the tuber in its axil, Z’ the leaf on the tuber. The stem to 
right shows the secondary stem from the tuber, marked S$’. 
the ordinary tubers. 
Copies of the accompanying photograph were sent to 
botanists, who regarded this as an unusual occurrence, though . 
had seen something like it before. After dismissing the subject 
+ nearly two years, I again came across the photographs, and ded 
the matter was of sufficient interest to be placed upon record.— " 
Dopson, Baton Rouge, La. 
