AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 101 



If you can give information on this subject, you will not only 

 oblige me, but a great number besides myself who are engaged in 

 the same business. I am very respectfully yours, 



Nelson "W. Adams. 



description. 



This species of catchfly introduced from Europe, is closely related 

 to the Night Flowering Catchfly already described. It may be known 

 by the follownig description : 



Tall, two to four feet high, more or less clothed with hairs, 

 often reddish and viscid. Probably winter annual or biennial, 

 often over fifteen stems from a single root and dichotomously 

 branching toward the top where they bear the one-sided racemose 

 inflorescence. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, those at the base 

 of the flowers near the ends of the branches, small, reddish, three 

 nerved, scarious margined and about half the length of the flowers. 

 Flowers short, pediciled, or nearly sessile, about five-sixteenth 

 inches long ; calyx, cylindric in flowering, becoming ovoid in fruit, 

 the ten bright green nerves which run from the base to the tips of 

 the lobes strongly hirsute along the back and with no anastomosing 

 veiyis. Diameter of flowers one-half inch, petals white or roseate, 

 obovate, deeply bifid and bearing fit the base a two lobed scale 

 which with the others form a crown. 



The beautiful seed broadly kidney shaped, light brown, 1.33 

 mm. X 106 mm. Its surface densely covered with elevations 

 arranged concentric and radiate from the hilum. Those near the 

 hilum narrow, smaller, darker, smooth, bordered and unmarked. 

 Outward from the hilum the papillae become larger, more conical, 

 oblong, bordered by from 10 to 20 teeth and bearing at the summit 

 a round black dot. The teeth of the contiguous papilhe often 

 interlock. 



This species can be told from the other catchfly which we figure 

 by its numerous stalks from the same root, its greater height and 

 more slender growth, dichotomous racemose inflorescence, nearly 

 sessile flowers and the veins of the calyx, which do not have branches 

 running across from one to the other. 



treatment. 

 This plant is a winter annual or biennial. The seed sown in 

 1893 sprouted that year and the young plants lived over winter. and 

 after producing flowers and seed in 1894 died root and branch. 



