DESCRIPTIONS OK THE VARIETIES. 19 



The Baird variety is readily distiiif^uished from the Urownie hy its slightly larger 

 and iiior(> flattened deep brown seeds. The poils also are ilistinclly larger and more 

 flattened, three-eighths to one-half inch or more in width, IJ to If inches in length, 

 apparently remaining nearly yellow at maturity. 



The c-haracters of the plant have not been recorded, Init it is probably coarser and 

 less branched, though earlier, than that of the Brownie variety. From the Ogemaw 

 and Eda varieties it is separated by its smaller pods and much smaller seeds. It 

 is probably much like them in habit, but longer branched and later. 



As this variety was separated from the Brownie after Ihc. plates were prepared, its 

 name does not appear on Plate 111. It is, how.-ver, represented by the two left-hand 

 seeds in No. 9 on Plate I and by the four left-hand seeds and the lower pod attributed to 

 the Brownie Variety on Plate 111, as nott^l in the description of the plates. 



The variety is named for Rev. W. M. Baird, a missionary, who secured the seed in 

 Korea. 



BROWNIE. 



This is a well-branched, bushy variely, wiih very small pods and seeds. It is not 

 known commercially, but only through the original imporlalion from Korea. 



The stems are medium in size, one-fourth to three-eighths incli in diameter at base, 

 bearing 3 to G branches, the lowermost 15 to 20 inches long, the upper gradually 

 shorter, all ascending or spreading, giving tf) the plant a bushy, wide-spreading habit. 

 Leaves of medium size and medium to liglit green in color.* Pods borne quite abun- 

 dantly, 3 to 6 to the cluster, very small, nearly cylindrical, three-fourths inch to j; 

 inches long, three-sixteenths to five-sixteenths inch wide, 2 or occa^iionally 3 seeded, 

 remaining greenish yellow until nearly ripe, then becoming somewhat reddish. The 

 seeds are all round or spherical, 4 to 6^ mm. in diameter, the normal color a light 

 brown, resembling the seeds of some forms of the gram {Phaseolus mungo). 



From one hundred and eight to one hundred and twenty-five or more days are 

 rcciuired to bring this variety to maturity, the average b.-ing about one hundred and 

 Ijftei-n to one hundred and twenty days. The longer pericxls seem to be accompanied 

 by a considerably taller growth, and it seems likely that with careful selection this 

 variety can be developed into a very valuable hay plant. The few yields of seed 

 • recorded are all small, usually less than 5 bushels to the acre. 



The name is derived from the color and small size of the seeds. 



Numbers and sources of lots grovm. — Agi-ost. No. 1542, S. P. I. No. 6414; S. P. I. 

 No. 6414, fi-om Ping-yang, Korea; S. P. I. No. 9417, grown from S. P. I. No. 6414; 

 S. P. I. No. 17256, grown from Agrost. No. 1542-1. 



Mottled-Seeded Group, 



HANKOW. 



The description and notes already given f(jr the Riceland apply e<iually we'll to the 

 Hankow variely, except for the color of the seeds. Both were obtained in China at 

 the same time and place and were noted as being grown in the same way for the same 

 purpose. In all the tests made they have behaved exactly alike. The seeds are of 

 medium size, rather narrowly elliptical, 4 to 5^ mm. wide by 6 to 8 mm. long. 5 to 6^ 

 mm. being a common size. The ground color is light to medium brown and the mot- 

 tling is black. The black is present usually as a more or less sharply defined patch 

 or saddle of varying size and elliptical shai^e on either side of the "eye, " or hilum. 

 In addition, there are usually one or two narrow or broader eccentric lines or stripes of 

 black outside the patch and parallel to its edge, thus forming a broken ellipse near the 

 margin of the flattened seed. The two sides of a bean are frequently unlike In their 

 markings. 



