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killed by a cow, and the other was dead. At this time I still had 

 hopes of obtaining a race of five-leaved red clover, but when I 

 returned to Oregon and examined these plants on June 20 all 

 such hopes vanished, for a neighbor's cow had completely ruined 

 them, cropping off all the stalks down to the ground. None of 

 the plants revived after this last injury. 



Records for the leaf production of this mutant were kept, and 

 from them I have obtained the following: On May 11, 1914, a 

 count was made of all the leaves produced up to date. There 

 had been produced 6 trimerous, 7 tetramerous and 17 pentam- 

 erous Leaves; : *<> in all. over 56 per cent, pentamerous. We no- 

 tice, however, a slight decline in the percentage of pentamerous 

 leaves produced, since the plant was found. This decline, early 

 noticed, continued throughout the summer, and on August 23, 

 when I made my last leaf counts. I obtained the following record 

 of leaf production top this mutant clover plant: 



