A strange and curious little story, about the moonlight mating of flowers.

Today's story is "Vallisneria Madness", by Ralph Milne Farley. It appeared in the May 1937 issue of Weird Tales on pages 612 to 616.

Ralph Milne Farley was the pen name of the science fiction writing collaboration between Roger Sherman Hoar, state senator and assistant Attorney General for Massachusetts, and his daughter Caroline Prescott Hoar.

Vallisneria is a genus of submerged freshwater aquatic plant, commonly called eelgrass, tape grass or vallis, that spreads by runners and sometimes forms tall underwater meadows. It is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. Single female flowers grow to the water surface on very long stalks. Male flowers grow on short stalks, become detached, and float to the surface.

Roger Sherman Hoar (April 8, 1887, Waltham, Massachusetts – October 10, 1963) was an American state senator and assistant Attorney General for the state of Massachusetts. He wrote and published science fiction under his own name, and from 1932 in collaboration with his daughter, Caroline Prescott Hoar, under the pseudonym of Ralph Milne Farley.

He was a great-great-grandson of Founding Father Roger Sherman.

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