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though now is its showy stalk of ripened akenes[achenes].  The flowers would
most likely be passed by unnoticed.  As I came across the fields
and was not very far from Marshall Av. I passed a fine specimen of
English Hawthorn-Crataegus oxyacantha.  Reaching Marshall Av. I
proceeded at once to Brooklyn, I went to my favorite little ravine.

After collecting the plants I needed, mainly Arisaema triphyllum
of which I found two different kind some green, not fertilized
and some brownish which are fertilized, I went to the spot
where I had marked several plants of Podophyllum peltatum
last year.  These plants had been mutiliated in various ways, all
with the idea of inducing the sub-axillary bud to grow.  The first plant
dug up and examined was the one in which the end of the rhizome had been cut off
and all buds removed except the sub-axillary.  In this case I had succeeded
in making this bud grow.  It grew directly upright, thus [sketch of horizontal L shape] and at the
tip the bud for this year's grow was formed; from it, this terminal bud,
a sterile shoot was sent up.  Around the base of it, roots were
sent into the ground.  Already buds which will continue the growth
next year may be seen forming around this swollen portion.  The next plant
dug up, had sent up a fertile shoot.  In this case, I had left, two
year's of underground growth, but had also removed all buds except the
        