countries have been distributed directly by the Division or through the 

 Section of Seed and Plant Introduction. 



Table I. — Number of packages and varieties of grass and forage plant seeds distributed to 

 experimenters, and number and kinds of reports of experiments received. 



Number of trial packages dis- 

 tributed to experimenters. 



Variety. 



Fiscal year- 



1896-97. 



African millet (Eleusine corocana) ... 



Agropyron acutimi 



Agropyrt)n das\stach yum 



Agropyron dasystachyum subvillosum 



Agropyron rigidum 



Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) 



Alkali -iaccaton (Panieum bulbosum) 



Alpine timothy (Phleum alpinum) 



Alsike clover (Trifolium hybridum) 



American lyme grass (Elymus ameri- 



eanus) 



American reed bent (Calamagrostisameri- 



cana) 



Andropogon annulatus 



Andropogon laniger 



Andropogon pertusus 



Andropogon saccharoides 



Andropogon schcenanthus 



Andrtipi igon seoparius 



Andropogon squarrosa 



Androsace occidentalis 



Annual saltbush (Atriplex holocarpa) 



Apluda cri.stata 



Atriplex angulata 



Australian saltbush (Atriplex semibacca- 



tum) 



Bearded wheat grass (Agropyron cani- 



num) 



Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylon) 



" Best all round grass " 



Bladder saltbush (Atriplex vesicaria) 



Black grama (Hilaria mutica) 



Blue jointgrass (Calamagrostis canaden- 

 sis) 



Blue grama (Boutelouaoligostaehya) 



Bowie grass (Panieum effusum) 



Big blue stem (Andropogon provincialis) 



Bouteloua mixture 



Broad-leafed spike grass (Uniola latifo- 



lia) 



Brown's lyme grass (Elymus innovatus) . . 



Bromus maximus 



Bromus pumpellianus 



Buffalo grass (Bulbilis dactyloides) 



Buffalo bunch grass (Festuea scabrella) . . 



Bunch red top (Poa buckleyana) 



Bunch spear grass (Poa arida) 



Bunch wheat grass (Agropyron divergens) 



Bur clover (Medicago maculata) 



Bunshy blue stem (Andropogon nutans) . 

 Button grass (Dactyloctenium austra- 



liense) ." 



Canadian blue grass (Poa compressa) 



Canadian lyme grass (Elymus canadensis) 



Calamagrostis sylvatica 



Calamagrostis sp. 



50 



.... 



1897-98. 



1898-99. 



366 

 1 



22 

 2 



13 



"i' 



1 



51 



Cane (Arundinaria macrosperma) . 



Capnoides aureum 



Carex douglasii 



Cenchrus biflorus 



Cheetochloa glauca , 



Chsetochloa verticillata 



Chick pea (Cicer aretinum) 



Chichorium intybus 



Chloris barbata 



1 

 12 



2 

 2 

 1 

 2 



i 



159 

 2 



o 



26 



"3' 



3 



13 

 9 

 3 



16 

 3 

 5 

 5 



3 



1 



11 



11 



29 



3 



3 



4 



20 



1 



3 

 3 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 575 

 3 



4 

 3 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 5 

 2 

 29 

 1 

 3 



18 



14 



22 



3 



5 



7 



1 

 70 



3 

 11 



5 



1 

 2 

 1 



11 

 1 



13 

 1 



11 



30 

 3 



3 

 11 

 22 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



Number and kind of 



reports received from 



experimenters. 



99 



94 



18 



o 



148 



10 



"i 

 '14 



