44 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37153. ScHizoNOTUS sorbifolius (L.) Lindl. 

 (Spiraea sorbi folia L.) 



From Peking. China. Collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer. Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer for the Departmenl of Agriculture. Received February 17, 1914. 



"(No. 1046. December 1, 1913.) A variety of the ordinary Sorbus-leaved 

 Spiraea, which is very impartial to adverse conditions. See description of No. 

 1086a [S. P. I. No. 36700] for further details." (Meyer.) 



"A shrub 3 to 6 feel high, which suckers freely; stems erect, very pithy, 

 varying from nearly smooth i" downy. Leaves 8 to 12 inches long, composed 

 of 13 to 25 leaflets, which are lanceolate, 2 to 3$ inches long, one-half to 1 

 inch wide; sharply and conspicuously double toothed, tireen on both sides; 

 usually quite smooth above and the same beneath. Flowers one-third of an 

 inch across, white, produced during July and August in a stiff, erect raceme 

 6 to 10 inches high; flower stalks downy and glandular; ovaries smooth or 

 nearly so. 



"Native of northern Asia from the Ural Mountains to Japan; introduced in 

 1750. It is distinguished from its near allies Spiraea Undleyana and 8. aitehi- 

 soni by its comparatively dwarf, stiff habit, and narrower, stiffer flower 

 panicles, (irown in rich soil it makes a handsome shrub." (ir. J. Bean, Trees 

 mid Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. '<)■>. under spiraea sorbifolia.) 



Cuttings. 



37154 to 37167. 



From Tulun, Russia. Presented by Mr. Victor Pissareff, Tulun Experiment 

 Field. Received February 11, 1014. 



Quoted notes by Mr. Pissareff. 



37154. Triticum aestivum L. "Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Yill.) 



" Common summer wheat of the country. Province Irkutsk, latitude 

 52° 16' ; Malta country, 1013." 



37155. Secale cekeale L. Rye. 

 "Native summer rye. Province of Yakutsk, latitude 62° V N." 



37156. Hordeum vulgare L. Barley. 

 " Summer barley. Province of Yakutsk, latitude 62° 1' N." 



37157. Triticum aestivum L. Wheat. 



(Triticum vulgare Yill.) 

 "Summer wheat from native wheat. Somewhal frozen, 1013." 



37158. Triticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Yill.) 



"Summer wheat Amerikanka. Province Yakutsk, latitude 02° 1' N." 



37159. Teiticum durum i»<-sf. Wheat. 

 "Summer macaroni wheat. Atbasar Agricultural School, Province of 



Akmolinsk, crop of 1012." 



37160. Triticum aestivum I>. Wheat. 

 ( Triticum vulgare Yill.) 



" Winter wheat Sandomyrka, Province of Tomsk. Siberia." 



37161. Trifolium pbatense L. Red clover. 

 "Wild red clover collected at Tulun Experiment Field, Province of 



Irkutsk, 1913." 



