60 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42749 to 42758— Continued. 



42756. Rubus ranis Weihe and Nees. 



"A .shrub with subprostrate or low arching stems of dark purplish 

 color, armed with short decurved prickles, and furnished with nu- 

 merous stalked glands. Leaves large among brambles, and com- 

 posed of three or five leaflets. Leaflets whitish downy be- 

 neath, becoming greenish, the terminal one oval or obovate, with 

 a slenderly tapered point, doubly toothed. Flowers pink, borne on 

 a loose, wide panicle, the stalks downy and thickly furnished with 

 shortly stalked glands. Fruit small. Common in the south of 

 England and wild in the neighborhood of Kew. Distinguished by 

 its thickly glanded stems and inflorescence. Nearly allied to and 

 sometimes confused with it, but more widely spread northwards, 

 is Rubus echinatus." (IV. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in Die 

 British Isles, vol. 2, p. .$53.) 



42757. Real's wahlbergii Arrhen. 



A species said to be midway between Rubus lindenbergii and R. 

 cacsius. Native in parts of Germany. (For full technical descrip- 

 tion, see Asehcrson und Graebner, Synopsis der Mittel Europaischen 

 Flora, vol. G, pt. 1, p. 6-' f 6.) 



4275S. Avena ludoviciana Durieu. Poaceae. Oats. 



A form apparently closely allied to Avena sativa. 



42759 and 42760. 



From Rochester, N. Y. Presented by Mr. John Dunbar. Received May 

 17, 1916, seedlings of the following: 



42759. Corn us patjcinervts Hance. Cornacese. Cornel. 

 Shrub 1 to 3 meters tall, white flowers, black fruit. From western 



Hupeh and western Szechwan. (Adapted from Plantae Wilsonianae, 

 vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 577.) 



42760. Malvs GLAUCESCENS Rehder. Malacca?. Crab apple. 

 " The earliest of the American crab apples to flower, Malm glaucescens, 



is a native of New York and of Ontario and is a treelike shrub or small 

 tree distinguished from the other northern species by the pale lower 

 surface of the leaves and the hairy covering on the outer surface of 

 the calyx of the flower." (Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of Information, 

 new ser., vol. 1. 1915.) 



42761 to 42764. Cicer arietinum L. Fabaceae. Chick-pea. 



From Barcelona, Spain. Procured through Mr. Carl Bailey Hurst, Ameri- 

 can consul general. Received April 25, 191G. 



42761. "Variety Andaluz, superior." 



42762. " Variety Corrientc, 1\ Andaluz." 



427G3 " Variety Andalus, extra." 



42764. The packages were broken when received and the following 

 varieties were mixed: Type Alfamate-superior ; type Alf arnate-extra ; 

 variety Corriente-Andaluz. These are evidently place names only. 



