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ee AN EAN PLANTS OF EPIPHEGUS. 
(WITH ONE FIGURE) 
Hivnis need of Lpiphegus virginiana in late October, 1900, I 
sought a piece of beech woods in Holbrook, Massachusetts, where I 
found the plant growing abundantly in rich, deep humus. It was past 
the flowering time of this species in the main, but the warm season 
_ that year was unusually protracted, and numerous short shoots were 
being produced from the swollen stem bases, upon which I found | 
__ flowers and fruit in all stages of development. The flowers borne de . 
these late branches are very small. They are all cleistogamous and 
invariably give rise to capsules filled with fertile seed. 
: Occasionally these secondary shoots were observed to be flowering : 
ce Somewhat be below the surface of the ground. This fact led to further 
exploration, and on turning up the moldI oe 
many shoots that for one reason or another - 
never escaped from the soil. ‘They —_ ye 
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eof life, Gal ccrceus ae G. Pees The An . 
North oe Biasasehesese: 
NOTES OF TRAVEL. VIII. 
_ AMERICAN AUTUMN ‘FOLIAGE IN EUROPE. 
