DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. Frontispiece. Seeds of all varieties of soy beans in natiiral sizes and colors. 

 Black-seeded group: 1. — Buckshot. 2. — Nuttall. 3. — Kingston. 4. — Ebony. 

 5. — Flat King. 6. — Riceland; one seed washed, one with bloom. 6a. — A larger 

 undetermined soy bean from Italy. Brown-seeded group: 7. — Ogemaw. 8. — Eda, 

 showing different shades of color. 9. — Baird and Brownie (the two left-hand 

 seeds. Baird; the right-hand seed, Brownie). Mottled-seeded group: 10. — Meyer. 

 11. — Hankow; one seed washed, one with bloom, one in dorsal view. Green- 

 seeded gi-oup: 12. — Samarow. 13. — Guelph. 14. — Yosho; one lateral view, one 

 ventral view showing hiluni. 15. — Haberlandt; one lateral view, one ventral 

 view showing hilum. 16. — Tokyo; one lateral view, one ventral view showing 

 hilum. Yellow-seeded group: 17. — Ito San. 18. — Manhattan. 19. — Butterball. 

 20.— Amherst. 21.— Hollybrook. ' 22.— Mammoth. 



Plate II. Seeds and pods of the black-seeded gi-oup. Seeds of different sizes in lat- 

 eral and ventral (or hilum) view, and pods in lateral view: Buckshot, Nuttall, 

 Kingston, Ebony, Flat King, Riceland, and a larger undetermined soy bean from 

 Italy. 



Plate III. Seeds and pods of the brown-seeded and mottled-seeded groups. Seeds 

 of different sizes in lateral and ventral (or hilum) view, and pods in lateral view: 

 Ogemaw, Eda, Baird and Brownie (the four right-hand seeds and the upper pod, 

 Brownie; the four left-hand seeds and the lower pod, Baird), Meyer, Hankow. 



Plate IV. Seeds and pods of the green-seeded and greenish-yellow-seeded groups. 

 Seeds of different sizes in lateral and ventral (or hilum) view, and pods in lateral 

 view: Samarow, Guelph, Yosho, Haberlandt, Tokyo. 



Plate V. Seeds and pods of the yellow-seeded group. Seeds of different sizes in lat- 

 eral and ventral (or hilum) view, and pods in lateral view: Ito San, Manhattan, 

 Butterball, Amherst, Hollybrook, Mammoth. 



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