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That seems very odd, since the bulblets are 

 plainly the seed. They may be improper from 

 a methodical botanist's point of classification, 

 but they produce the next generation of plants. 

 The plant is here to stay, an "ugly duckling" 

 in a well-ordered family perhaps, but all the 

 more interesting from its peculiarity. It should 

 be described in works on botany, so that others, 

 when they find it as I did, may not have so much 

 difficulty in placing it. 



So the Dioscorea bulbifera, acclimated to 

 the northern part of the United States, knocks 

 for admission to Britton and Brown's "Illus- 

 trated Flora of the Northern United States and 

 Canada." 



1900. 



THE SEPTAEIA. 



About eleven miles north of Columbus, Ohio, 

 the level country gives place to hills and forms 

 a tract of such surpassing beauty, so rich in 

 geological and botanical specimens, as to cause 

 the wish that the Government would set it apart 

 as a park to perpetuate to future generations 

 a sample of the original loveliness of creation. 

 A short distance from the little town of 

 Flint the meadow sweeps down to a tiny stream, 

 known in the neighborhood as "the Branch," 



