24 y MIDLAND NATURALIST. 
Lanius ludovicianus Loggerhead Shrike, S. R. 
Setophaga ruticilla American Redstart, S. R. 
Actitis macularia Spotted Sandpipper, S. R. 
Zonotrichia leucophrys White-crowned Sparrow, S. V. 
Totanus flavipes Vellow-legs, S. R. 
(To be Continued.) 
Teratological Notes. 
I. AN ABNORMAL SPECIMEN OF TARAXACUM. 
A. M. KIRSCH 
In the spring of 1895 there appeared on the lawn in front of 
the University of Notre Dame some peculiar specimens of common 
Dandelion, (Taraxacum officinale, Weber.), one of the most 
remarkable of them is still kept in the herbarium of the Botanical 
Department. A photograph of this plant was taken at the time 
of collecting and a copy of this is here reproduced. The plants, 
about 35 to 40 in number, came up from a particularly well 
manured plot some twenty-five feet square and were found 
in patches of three or four plants not far from a large clump of 
shrubs of Philadelphus coronarius, Linn, 1753, on the extreme 
northeastern corner of the University Quadrangle. They were so 
conspicuous by their size and proportions that they attracted 
immediate attention. 
Every one of the thirty-five or forty plants was more or less 
abnormal by the growing together of from three to ten scapes 
topped by the same number of perfect sessile heads. The one here 
illustrated was, however, particularly remarkable in this respect as 
it consisted of a cluster of from sixteen to eighteen heads sessile 
on the top of a large hollow scape nearly one and one half inches 
in diameter formed by the coalescing of the individual scapes of 
the separate heads. The compound hollow scape was fluted 
tomentose-pubescent all along its length of about five inches. 
heads being about three inches in diameter. Each head had its 
own separate involucres. The large Scape arose from the center 
of the rosette of leaves, ordinary in outline, size, and general 
appearance. From the base and surrounding the large scape 
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