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combinations may be arranged. The number may be in- 

 creased by the occasional use of additional characteristics. 

 Leighty (1914, pp. 13-14) has, in fact, made 13 subdivi- 

 sions to include only the wheat varieties of the humid area 

 of the United States or that portion of this country east 

 of about the 96th meridian. The color of chaff and kernel 

 is usually red or white or some shade of these colors, 

 approaching brown or yellow, though there are instances 

 of a definite chestnut brown chaff, a few cases of violet 

 kernel, and a few black chaff varieties. 



44. Subdivisions of common wheats in the United 

 States and Canada. The principal varieties of common 

 wheat now in cultivation in the United States and Canada, 

 arranged in their subdivisions, are about as follows : 



1. Awnless, glabrous white or yellow chaff, white or amber kernels. 



Australian White, Defiance, Dicklow, Early Ontario, Palouse 

 Bluestem. 



2. Awnless, glabrous white or yellow chaff, red kernels. 



Hard Spring Fife, Marquis, Minn. No. 163. 



Soft Winter Extra Early Oakley, Fultz, Fultzo-Mediter- 

 ranean, Hickman, Leap Prolific, Lofthouse, Ontario 

 Wonder, Prosperity, Purple Straw, Southern Bluestem, 

 Zimmerman. 



3. Awnless, glabrous red or brown chaff, white or amber kernels. 



Soft Winter American Banner, Early Windsor, Dawson 

 Golden Chaff, Gold Coin, Koffoid. 



4. Awnless, glabrous red or brown chaff, red kernels. 



Soft or Semi-hard Winter Beechwood Hybrid, China, 

 Currell Prolific, Early Red Clawson, Early Ripe, Har- 

 vest King, Michigan Amber, Poole, Red Wave, Rochester 

 Red. 



5. Awnless, pubescent white or yellow chaff, red kernels. 



Hard Spring Minn. No. 169, Velvet Bluestem. 

 Soft Winter Crail Fife, Jones Winter Fife, Mealy. 



6. Awnless, pubescent red chaff, white or yellow kernels, 



Sonora, 



