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allied, if nut ideutical, varieties. Mr. Wray recognizes tliem as his 

 original Neeazfinii and its "sports." 



Plate 5 was received from Western Missouri under the name of 

 *' White Mammoth." Mr. Wray recognized it as his En-ya-ma. 



This name does not appear in liis list already given, but it will be re- 

 membered that he is rejtorted to have introduced sixteen varieties, aud 

 only fifteen are mentioned in his list. Besides this, " White Mam- 

 moth" is the most characteristic of all tlie varieties grown in this 

 country, and can not possibly be confounded with any other. The 

 seed is almost as white as rice, and the glumes are quite black. 



It is especially interesting, also, that this was one of the two varie- 

 ties of which Mr. Wray sent specimens of his old seed, and both speci- 

 mens received from him were at once recognized as the identical ones 

 which he declared them to be from the plates, viz. : Liberian (Koom- 

 ha-na) and White Mammoth (En-ya-ma). 



Plate 7 was grown as Oom-see-a-na, and such ^Ir. Wray declares it 

 to be. 



Plate 8 was grown from seed received from Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, 

 of South Carolina, and by him called " Black Top." Mr. Wray thinks 

 it the original " Chinese Sorgo." 



Plate 9 Mr. Wray pronounces an Oom-see a-na sport. It is "Link's 

 Hybrid," which Mr. Link, of Greeneville, Tenn., found in a field of 

 " Honduras " sorghum. 



Plate 10 is from seed which has come under the names Hondui'as, 

 Mastodon, Honey Top, Texas Cane, Honey Cane, and Sprangle Top. 

 Mr. Wray is positive that it is his old Vim-bis-chu-a-pa. 



Plate 11 is the Early Amber. jNIr. Wray's Boom-vwa-na. 



Plates 12 and 13, Goose Xeck aud White Liberian, respectively, he 

 also recognizes as among those varieties he imported. The great im- 

 portance of this matter will be discussed in another place, but it is re- 

 markable that these varieties should have so persistently retained their 

 characteristics during over 30 years of continuous cultivation. 



Hi/bridization of Sorghum. 



The letter froni ]Mr. Wray, and these reports from Natal, have much 

 value, since they throw moie light upon a matter of very great prac- 

 tical importance, and fully confirm the experience of the last five 

 years at the Department of Agriculture at Washington. 



jNIr. Wray writes, that he is " astonished at the very remarkable con- 

 stancy maintained by the several varieties" which he had introduced 

 a third of a century before. It certainly is remarkable that Mr. 



