fuses to stay longer. Three-seeded mercury, wild lettuce, clear- 

 weed, poke, small-flowered crowfoot, five-finger, and loosestrife 

 have each appeared once, and the last alone was allowed to 

 remain. It succumbed to the drought of 1929. A dozen or more 

 plants of honewort came up at the edge of the rhododendrons 

 in 1929. A tiny plant of bladder fern settled in a crevice in an 

 oak tree, a foot above the ground, in 1827. It leads a precarious 

 existence there but came through last summer's drought alive. 

 Merchantia probably arrived during the wet summer of 1928. 

 Last summer several small patches sent up reproductive 

 branches growing close to the shade of my boundary fence. 



All of these are growing, or trying to grow, under shrubs or 

 trees and in the beds. Out in the lawn conditions are much less 

 favorable for woodland plants, yet several have shosen to try it. 

 Festiica octoflora mingles with the bluegrass in several places. 

 Star grass and avens have each appeared once. A few plants of 

 blue-eyed grass and spring beauty bloom every spring. The 

 sensitive fern has burrowed under my fence from a patch at the 

 side of the street. Car ex laxiflora is pretty well established in a 

 shady corner and does not seem to mind the lawn mower. 

 Robin's plantain is almost a weed, so that I dig out some scores 

 of the basal rosettes every summer. Yarrow has been seen once 

 or twice. My prize possession in this class, however, is Selaginel- 

 la apiis, of which at least a dozen plants grow on a moist shaded 

 slope. They probably arrived in 1928, since they were well 

 established in 1929. 



Our third class includes cultivated plants that come up 

 spontaneously about the place. Seedlings of snowberry, Japan- 

 ese barberry, and horse chestnut are common, and come from 

 parent plants on the ground. A blackberry vine appears each 

 year, though I have been trying to kill it since 1922. Wild 

 plants of cosmos bloom nearly every year among my iris. Seed- 

 ling locusts are abundant, coming from a parent tree just over 

 my line fence. Single plants have been noted of snow on the 

 mountain, Japanese honeysuckle, raspberry, and apple. A large 

 gaura came in with some pansies and flowered in my window 

 box. Two seedlings of trumpet creeper germinated together in 

 1929 and are now trying to climb up my fence. 



Finally, and most remarkable of all: 



A certain small bed of lily of the valley offered nothing un- 



