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But in light sandy soil as in my garden
in Columbus it will flourish but for a
few years. The tubers are very large & uncommonly
tenacious of life. They will remain
for years in the ground when badly
injured before sprouting.

It may be well to observe that the petals
are not uniformly connivent, when the
flower is fully expanded, it is exactly
of the shape of a bowl, but pluck
[off?] a stem & in a few minutes they close
as you see in the dry specimens.

Can they be the same species found by Dr.
Baldwin at St. Marys [?]? He says it
grows in the piney woods. Now this will
not live long in the pine-woods here.
The leaves grow very much after it is out
of flower. They become generally [?] larger.
this is true I believe of several species. I
observed it distinctly in No. 1. of this
packet._ The leaves on the second & third
[crops?] of stems are always smaller than
those of the first. Its regular time of
flowering is May & June. The older the
root the more flower stems it puts up. The
first time a seedling flowers it has but one
stem, but in a few years it will produce
a dozen & have tubers enough all connected
to fill a peck measure
        