78 SEEDS A.ND PLANTS [MPOBTED. 



27201 to 27288 Continued. 



27269 to 27287- Continued. 



27282 to 27284. North Dakota Grimm. Grown from P. L. II. No. 

 3235, which is identical with S. P. I. No. 13358. The first plant 



yielded \)\ grams of seed; the second II", grains; the third 14 grams. 



(See No. J7201.) 



27285. Commercial sand lucern. Grown from an individual plant of 

 No. 21217, from Darmstadt, Germany, which yielded 18£ grams of 



ed. (See No. 27216.) 



27286. Origin of parent seed unknown. One plant yielded 4 grams 

 of seed. 



27287. Origin of parent seed unknown. One plant yielded 5 \ grams 

 of seed. 



Note. — The two preceding numbers are believed to be transplanted 

 plants of Peruvian alfalfa No. 9303, which survived an earlier experiment. 



27288. Medicago sativa varia (Mart.) Urb. Sand lucern. 



Grown from cuttings of No. 20571 (see No. 27260). Nineteen plants yielded 

 1\ pounds of seed. Average per plant 21 grams. 



27289 to 27296. 



From Bremen, Germany. Presented by Dr. Geo. Bitter, director, Botanical 

 Garden. Received March 4, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



27289. Agropyron semicostatum Nees. 



Distribution. — Slopes of the Himalayas at an elevation of 6,000 to 12,000 

 feet, between Kashmir and Sikkim, India, and extending to Afghanistan 

 and Turkestan. 



27290. Eleusine tristachya Lam. 



Distribution. — In the vicinity of Montevideo, Uruguay, and in Argentina, 

 South America; introduced in the Azores, and in Spain and Italy. 



27291. Melilotus suaveolens Ledeb. 



27292. Melilotus wolgica Poir. 



Distribution. — The southern part of Russia in the valley of the Volga River 

 and the vicinity of the Caspian Sea. 



27293. Phleum japonicum Franch. & Sav. 



Distribution. — Along sandy shores in the vicinity of Yokosuka, Japan. 



27294. Trigonella calliceras Fisch. 



Distribution. — The provinces around the Caspian Sea and in the Caucasus 

 Mountains, southeastern Russia. 



27295. Trigonella cretica Boiss. 



See No. 27148 for distribution of this species. 



27296. Trigonella gladiata Stev. 



Distribution. — The countries bordering on the Mediterranean from Spain and 

 France through Dalmatia and Greece eastward to Asia Minor, and in northern 

 Africa. 



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