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28296 to 28303— Continued. 



28299. Agrost. No. 2113. Ninth plant in row. 



28300. Agrost. No. 2113. Tenth plant in row. 



28301. Agrost. No. 2113. Eleventh plant in row. 



28302. Agrost. No. 2113. Twelfth plant in row. 



28303. Agrost. No. 2113. Thirteenth plant in row. 



28304 and 28305. Oryza sativa L. Rice. 



From Anam, French Indo-China. Procured by Mr. Miller Joblin, vice and deputy 

 consul in charge, Saigon, Cochin China, from the chief of agricultural service 

 in Anam. Received June 20, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



28304. Lua Chum. 28305. Luachiem, 



28306 to 28324. 



From Russia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Brookings, S. Dak., May 20, 1910. 



Seeds of the following; notes by Professor Hansen: 



28306. Agropyron cristatum (L.) Beauv. 



"(No. 262.) This is considered a very valuable grass. Native of the driest 

 steppes of eastern Russia and a large part of Siberia. The chemical analysis of 

 this plant has attracted the attention of the Russian Government agronomists, 

 indicating a higher percentage of protein than alfalfa. If this holds true under 

 cultivation in the United States, it may be a verv valuable addition to our 

 western grasses. Prof. R. W. Williams, of the Imperial Agricultural College at 

 Moscow, Russia, is improving this species by selection from individual plants. 

 The present sample is selection No. 1. The original seed was gathered from 

 wild plants growing in the Turgai Province, the dry steppe region in western 

 Asia just north of the Sea of Aral. This seed is from a single plant selected 

 from the original plant raised at Moscow from this wild seed. Hence, the 

 second generation under cultivation. The basis of selection in this selection 

 No. 1 is a rather long and narrow inflorescence." 



28307. Agropyron sibiricum (Willd.) Beauv. 



"(No. 272.) A grass native of the dry steppes of eastern Eruopean Russia 

 and western Siberia. The present lot is selection No. 1, grown from a single 

 plant, by Prof. R. W. Williams, of the Imperial Agricultural College, Moscow, 

 Russia." 



Distribution. — The trans-Caucasian provinces of southern Russia and east- 

 ward to the Altai Mountains in Siberia. 



28308. Agropyron sp. 



"(No. 275.) A native grass collected on the Russian Pamir plateau near the 

 border of India in a six months' tour in 1899 by the late M. I. Toulinoff, assistant 

 to Professor Williams at the Imperial Agricultural College, Moscow, Russia. 

 The present sample is selection No. 1, by Professor Williams." 



28309. Trifolium pratense L. Red clover. 



"(No. 280.) The native red clover from Uleaborg Province, Finland, from 

 seed cultivated there about one hundred years. This is the original seed from 

 the peasants, not cleaned or selected. Sample obtained from Professor 

 Williams, Moscow." 

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