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Finger and Toe in Root Crops. 
were gathered in the previous summer from wild plants. On 
being sown, both species came up well ; but as they advanced, 
many of the specimens showed a disposition to run to seed the 
Fig. 1. — FinRor and toe in cultiviited Wliitc Fig. 2.— Finger anil toe in <-ultivutoil 
Cdriut, one liaU" natural size. I'arsnij), one half na^ll•al size. 
first year ; and as seed from these would have been of no use in 
my after experiments, which were designed to enal)le me to note 
the effect of cultivation upon wild specimens, the plants in which 
the running disposition sliowed itself were hoed out. An exami- 
nation of the crop in the autumn showed, in the parsnips more 
jiarticularly, some interesting results, the most prominent of 
