40 [ASSEMBLY ~ 
Wild carrot seed collected from plants in the adjoining field pro- 
duced in every case annual plants. 
Cauliflower in several cases flowered, but the season was not suffi- 
ciently long to produce seed. 
Miscellaneous. 
Potato. A potato grafted on the tomato produced tubers above 
ground just above the graft. 
The wild potato, Solanum tuberosum, var. boreale, the seed from 
Arizona, and gathered and presented by J. G. Lemmon, of Oakland, Cal., 
yielded no tubers larger than those planted. The tubers were borne 
very diffusely, and were of the size of small hazelnuts. 
The flowers in the majority of varieties are sterile in consequence of 
a lack of pollen. ‘The Chicago market variety, the flowers of which 
produced no pollen, fertilized with pollen from the Tyrian Purple, 
yielded fruit in eleven cases out of twelve. 
Salsify. About Geneva the Salsify is found as an escape along the 
roadsides. 
Cow pea. Upon the land occupied by the cow pea last year cow 
peas were found as weeds. 
Sorghum. Sorghum also appeared as a weed upon ground occupied 
by sorghum last year. 
Monstrosities. 
Corn. On October 3 we received from EH. H. Libby, Rochester, N. 
Y., a plant of Stowell’s Evergreen Sweet corn, but twelve and one- 
half inches tall, well formed, of a vigorous green, leafy, and bearing 
three ears, two of which were well kernelled. These two ears were 
hermaphrodite, the ovule and stamens within the same glume. The 
tassel was normal, but had not yet bloomed. 
We harvested one ear of New England twelve-rowed, very perfect, 
eight inches long, then one and one-fourth inches, of tassel from the 
extremity, and at the end of the tassel another well-formed ear three 
inches long. 
Maize. 
In 1882 we received a small package of seed of the pod corn from 
Professor W. J. Beal, of Lansing, Mich. This seed was all podded, 
and when freed from its husks was all of uniform type, a yellow dent. 
Planted in the Station garden it furnished us with a number of ears, 
some fastigiate, others heavily husked, others lightly husked, and 
some free from husks. Some of the unhusked ears were red kernelled, 
the only mixture being kernels of red sweet; others had white, yellow 
and ordinary amber sweet kernels. During the growth we noticed 
that wherever a plant was bearing the typal form of husked grain. the 
tassels were heavy, branchy, and usually bore more or less podded 
kernels. 
The fastigiate ears were those in which instead of husked kernels, 
‘numerous husked ears were borne, arranged parallel with each other 
from the base. In many cases the fastigiate kind and the typal kind 
occurred ‘in the same ear, but these fastigiate ears were too late to 
furnish crop. In the normal type, many ears were very broad at the 
