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did not publish the descriptions of any varieties at that time. The 

 application of the terminology was partly illustrated by plates ac- 

 companying the article. 



Williams, in 1905 (204), listed and partly described about 60 

 varieties of wheat which were under experiment at the Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at that time. 



Hume, Center, and Hegnauer, in 1908 (122) , briefly classified the 

 wheat varieties grown in experiments in Illinois, and gave the history 

 and partial descriptions of some of the Russian and American 

 varieties. 



Scherffius and Woosley, in 1908 (171), published illustrations of 

 36 varieties of wheat grown by the Kentucky Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Noll, in 1913 (149), presented a tabular description of varieties 

 grown by the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Leighty, in 1914 (138), gave a list of the leading varieties of wheat 

 grown in the eastern half of the United States, arranging them in 

 classified groups by kernel and spike characters. 



Schafer and Gaines, in 1915 (170), recorded brief descriptions of 

 the principal wheat varieties of Washington, together with their 

 histories. 



Nelson and Osborn, in 1915 (148), gave a brief tabular description 

 of the wheat varieties grown at the Arkansas Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station during the period from 1908 to 1914. 



Reisner, 2 in 1915, compiled much valuable information on the 

 description and history of New York varieties. 



Ball and Clark, in 1915 (39), presented keys to the groups of hard 

 red spring wheat and the durum wheats grown in the United States 

 and described and gave the histories of the more important varieties. 



Carleton, in 1916 (61), listed the leading wheat varieties of the 

 world, including American varieties. They were grouped into the 

 botanical groups used by Koernicke and Werner. No attempt was 

 made to disting-uish between the closely related agricultural varieties. 



Stanton, in 1916 (185), grouped a large collection of wheat vari- 

 eties grown in experiments in Maryland and Virginia, in accordance 

 with some of the most obvious taxonomic characters. 



Jones, in 1916 (129) , presented a brief key to the groups of common 

 spring and durum wheats grown in experiments in Wyoming. 



Ball and Clark, in 1918 (1$), published a key to the groups and 

 varieties of durum wheat grown in the United States. 



Grantham, in 1918 (99) , listed a large number of varieties which 

 were being grown at the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station 



2 Reisner, John H. Wheat in New York. 1915. Unpublished thesis, Cornell Univer- 

 sity. The writers wish to here acknowledge the use of this manuscript, credit being due 

 to both the author and the Farm-Crops Department of Cornell University. 



