64 BULLETIN 10'74, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, midseason, midtall ; stem white, strong; 

 spike awnless, broadly fusiform, middense, inclined ; glumes glabrous, yellow- 

 ish white, midlong, midwide ; shoulders wide, usually square ; beaks wide, acute, 

 curved, 1 to 1.5 mm. long ; apical awns many, 2 to 10 mm. long, occurring nearly 

 throughout the spike, and distinctly incurved ; kernels white, short to midlong. 

 soft, ovate, slightly humped ; germ usually small ; crease midwide, deep ; cheeks 

 rounded ; brush midsized, midlong to long. 



This variety is distinct in having incurved apical awns occurring nearly 

 throughout the entire length of the spike. Spikes of Rink wheat are shown in 

 Plate IV, Figure 4, and Plate V, Figure 2. 



History. — The origin of Rink wheat is undetermined. It was reported to 

 have been grown in Washington County, Oreg., since 1909. 



Distribution. — Grown in Benton, Polk, Washington, and Yamhill Counties, 

 Oreg. 



BUNYIP. 



Description. — Plant spring habit, early, midtall ; stem white, strong ; spike 

 awnless, oblong, dense, erect; glumes glabrous, yellowish white (brown striped), 

 midlong, midwide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; beaks narrow to 

 midwide, acute, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 12 mm. long; kernels 

 white, midlong, soft to semihard, ovate ; germ midsized ; crease midwide, mid- 

 deep ; cheeks angular ; brush midlong, midsized to large. 



The glumes of this variety are distinctly brown striped, which sometimes 

 gives the appearance of a brown-glumed variety. 



History. — Bunyip is an Australian variety originated by William Farrer, the 

 well-known plant breeder of New South Wales, Australia. Its origin has been 

 recorded as follows : 



It is a crossbred, produced as the result of mating two other crossbreds, 

 Rymer and Maffra, together. Rymer, the mother plant, was produced as the 

 result of crossing Purplestraw on to Improved Fife, the latter being a Mani- 

 toba variety. Maffra was the product of King's Jubilee, mated with an 

 unnamed crossbred (Blount's Lambrigg X Hornblende). Its pedigree is, there- 

 fore, as follows : 



Blount's Lambrigg X Hornblende. 





An unnamed 



crossbred 



1 



X 



King's 

 Jubilee 



1 



Improved Fife X ' Purplestraw. 



Maffra. 





Rymer. 



X 







Bunyip. 



The cross was made in 1897 and named in 1901 (188, p. 189). 



Bunyip was first introduced into the United States (S. P. I. No. 38345) in 

 May, 1914, by the United States Department of Agriculture (197). In 1915 a 

 sample of the variety was included in the Australian exhibit at the Panama- 

 Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco, Calif. A part of this seed 

 was obtained, together with that of several other varieties, by the Sperry Flour 



