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three forms, male, female and monoecious. Several hundred 

 seeds from plant No. 3 were sown in Fargo, North Dakota, in the 

 spring of 1919. Owing to a protracted drought only four plants 

 survived. 



In their general habit of growth these plants were like the 

 females of my earlier observations — the flowers were clustered 



in the axils of the leaves, either sessile or on more or less elon- 

 gated peduncles. In another paper (Mss.) I have described in 

 detail the various floral arrangements that appeared on these 

 plants. Female flower buds are conical. The male buds are 

 smaller than the female buds and they are spherical. The her- 

 maphrodite flower buds are like the female buds though some- 

 times smaller. Just prior to the opening of the hermaphrodite 



