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38408 to 38414— Continued. 



the base ordinarily wedge shaped but sometimes rounded, quite 

 smooth ; stalk one-fourth to five-eighths of an inch long, more or less 

 furnished with bristles. Flowers unisexual, the sexes on different 

 plants. Males yellowish in erect glandular racemes. Fruit roundish 

 oval, about as big as a red currant, smooth, scarlet red. Native of 

 Siberia, Manchuria, etc. ; introduced in 1781. This shrub, which has 

 no particular merit, resembles R. alpinum in the plants being 1-sexed, 

 but differs in having prickles and in the markedly wedge-shaped 

 leaves. In having spines and flowers in racemes, it unites the char- 

 acters of the currants and gooseberries, but its affinities are with 

 the former." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 2, p. 401.) 

 Introduced for breeding purposes. 

 S8413. Rhododendron daukicum L. Ericaceae. 

 Seed from the Provinces of Transbaikalia and Irkutsk. 

 " This rhododendron is a native of Dahuria, Mandshuria, and Sachalin, 

 and, coming from a cold region, a spell of mild weather in midwinter 

 causes it to begin to open its flowers very early in this country [Eng- 

 land] ; therefore they often fall a prey to frost before they can expand. 

 Nevertheless, it is a good kind of plant, for in those seasons when it does 

 escape injury it adds a brilliant touch of color to the garden at a very 

 dull season. There are several forms of the plant, some having deciduous 

 leaves, and in other cases the leaves are evergreen or subevergreen." 

 (The Garden, January 11, WIS, p. 18.) 



"A deciduous or semievergreen shrub up to 6 feet in height ; young 

 shoots scaly and downy. Leaves oval, rounded at the apex, tapering or 

 rounded at the base, half an inch to 1$ inches long, one-fourth to five- 

 eighths of an inch wide, dark glossy green and slightly scaly above, paler 

 and scaly beneath. Flowers bright rosy purple, 1 to 1§ inches across, 

 produced during January and February singly from each one of a cluster 

 of scaly buds at the end of the previous summer's growth, where there 

 are usually but one or two flowers open at a time. Corolla flat, saucer 

 shaped; calyx lobes five, short." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 m the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 852.) 



38414. Larix kurieensis Mayr. Pinacese. Larch. 



Seed from the Provinces of Primorskaya and Sakhalin. 

 See S. P. I. No. 35171 for previous introduction and description. 



38415. Lotus tetragonolobus L. Fabacese. 



From Paris, France. Presented by Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co. Received 

 June 9, 1914. 

 Distribution. — The countries bordering on the Mediterranean from Spain 

 through Italy and the Balkan peninsula to the Transcaucasian Provinces of 

 southeastern Russia, and in northern Africa. 



38416 to 38427. 



From Novospasskoe, Russia. Presented by Mr. A. Woeikoff, director, Bu- 

 reau d'Acclimatation. Received May 16-18, 1914. 



38416 to 38418. Amygdaeus persica L. Amygdalaccae. Peach. 



(Primus persica Stokes.) 



