414, General Notes. 
generally came out very soon after germination. In onet 
rew four inches before coming out. Eight roots were sonearthe 
surface, still below it, that they were red for a foot or more, — : 
primary roots in the experiments had reached the length of t : 
to fourteen inches, and at that length they were always longer than 
the secondary roots, even if the primaries had run out of the 
ground. The roots apparently grew about as well outof the sand 
as in the sand. Mon 
about three-fourths of an inch below the surface. The soil 
gently patted down. By the side of these, in a similar manner, 
planted 92 kernels with the tips uppermost. The weather during. 
this experiment was clear for most of the time, excepting the 
previous to examining the corn. Of the 118 kernels planted 
obliquely upward, one secondary root each, very neat the sur 
where it died; one thrust up two secondaries, which died. 
the perpendicular. They certainly went more directly down 
did those tested in the sand in the cellar. Of the 92 kernels 
the tips up, nine sent primary roots out of the ground where t 
died. Thisis nearly 10 per cent, The growth of the kernel, how 
was maintained by the secondary roots. One kernel omy 
lot of corn thrust one secondary above the ground, where m 
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A SINGULAR HABIT OF PSORALEA ARGOPHYLLA P i 
extended trip in Dakota the past summer, this plant was 4 
companion. So abundant is it that it gives large arse" i 
prairie a silvery whiteness. In the latter part of August: 
starting on their journey are very different. In the g 
