INVENTORY. 



36937 and 36938. Linum usitatissimum L. Flax. 



From Matania el Saff, Egypt. Presented by Mr. Alfred Bircher, Middle 

 Egypt Botanic Station. Received January 3, 1914. 

 Secured from two different dealers in flaxseed and therefore given distinct 

 numbers as representing perhaps two distinct varities. For the use of the 

 Office of Cereal Investigations in its work on flax. 



36939 and 36940. 



From Kalat, Baluchistan. Presented by Capt. S. Williams, assistant politi- 

 cal agent, Mastung, Kalat, Baluchistan, India. Received January 3, 1914. 



36939. Hordeum vulgare L. Barley. 

 "Barley grown in this State." (Williams.) 



36940. Triticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



"Wheat grown in this State." {Williams.) 



36941. Solakum tuberosum L. Potato. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Senor J. M. Vargas Vergara, De- 

 partment of Agriculture. Received January 3, 1914. 

 "Papa gruesa, a variety of tuquerrena, selected at random, which will show 

 you the development the tubers reach here, these presumably not being the 

 largest." (Vargas Vergara.) 



36942 to 36954. 



From Brazil. Collected by Messrs. P. H. Dorsett, A. D. Shamel, and Wilson 

 Popenoe, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Received January 8, 1914. 



Quoted notes by Messrs. Dorsett, Shamel, and Popenoe. 

 36942. Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck. Sweet orange. 



"(No. 42. Bahia, Brazil. December 13, 1913.) Navel orange bud 

 sticks from select tree No. 6, Dr. Fortunato da Silva's place, Cabulla. 

 Circumference of trunk, 21$ inches ; height of tree, 14 feet ; spread of 

 tree, 17 feet; habit of growth, spreading. Tree 12 feet from coffee 

 bushes. Two main branches, forking 19 inches above ground ; foliage 

 dense, dark green ; leaves elliptical, medium size, petiole medium size ; 

 no thorns. Fruits, June crop, 296; December crop, 14. No variations of 

 fruit noticed. Fruits borne all through the tree and of yellowish brown 

 color for the ripe ones. Navel small to medium size, mostly rudimentary. 

 Brown and cottony scale, lichens, and several fungi on the tree. Very 

 little mottle-leaf and very little gum disease. No plant parasites. Tree 

 about 14 years old. Few dead branches. For trial in California for 

 improved navel types." 



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