Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn From: arsmith@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Alan Smith) Subject: [Green] Report of Elanor Underhill Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1993 16:16:46 GMT Pursuant to a request of the twenty-seventh ultimo by Professor Kanes Bowwin, Myself and my partner, Hubert Mansig, joined the group led by the above professor Bowwin to investigate the new Forest at Kron Park. This is the first of the reports by the investigators, and will deal with the anatomy, physiology, and related topics of the organisms found. Flora: Samples were taken of the major floral species, which did not have precise matches to known botany, but some definite similarities. The major species are described here (for a more complete list, see appendix A) Kron Tree (Krondii arbor) This large deciduous tree has oval-shaped leaves of up to four inches in length and three in girth, it grows to 100' and has a two- by-one branching pattern (two side branches with a one main branch in the middle) it is a large, lush, fruitbearing tree which does not tend to aggregate. There is considerable variation in this species, especially in the fruits, where more than one variety has been seen on the same tree. Germination tests on the various fruits, though, have shown that they all produce Krondii arbor. The other major mystery surrounding this tree is that the core samples show an age of up to several hundred years, while the established age of the tree is a few weeks. Kron Bush (Krondii dumetum) This bush grows up to six feet in height, and more or less the same in girth. It is normally found in linear aggregates most closely resembling hedgerows or as solitary bushes. Examinations of the aggregate bushes sometimes do and sometimes do not show root linkage. (Root linkage is a common sign of offshoot reproduction) the bushes tend to be deciduous, woody, and berrybearing, though, like the Krondii arbor, dumetum will not necissarily bear the same berry all the time. Grass This is indistinguishable from grasses found elsewhere, save the phenomenon of finding blades from two different species on the same plant. Flower-plants Several flowerbearing and suspected flowerbearing plants were found and given names, they are largely unremarkable except for their uniqueness. A given species of plant will only produce one type of flower, though. Lower plants: Several species of liverworts, mosses, and fungi were found in appropriate places, without physiological oddity. Cellular level characteristics: All plant species showed the regular cell pattern of wall, membrane, chloroplasts, and nucleus, and came out normal in all the staining tests. Fauna: In the fauna only species common to Generica before the coming of the forest were found. These did not differ signifcantly from the ex-park fauna except that some individuals cells had cell walls, a trait not normally found in animal cells.