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NOTES ON THE AGRICULTURE, BOTANY 



rior cauda praedita. Cauda 10 

 microns longa. Membrana gra- 

 nulata. Chlorophoris discoideis, 

 5-5.5 microns latis, pyrenoidibus 

 null-'s. Stigmate rubro. Granu- 

 lis paramylaceis numerosis, dis- 

 coideis." 



T. Schanislandii Lemm. 

 T. piscatoris (Fischer) Stokes 

 var. granulata nov. var. 

 Diagnosis — "Testa abrupta 

 ovali aut subglobosa, 29.7-30 

 microns longa, 16.2-18 microns 

 lata. Membrana brunnea, regu- 

 lariter, granulata. Collare recto, 

 5.7 microns lato. Chlorophoris 

 numerosis, discoideis." 

 T. ovalis Daday. 



T. ovalis Daday var. chinensis 



nov. var. 

 Diagnosis — " Testa ovalis, 

 brunnea, 28 microns longa, 16 

 microns lata. Poro flagelli recto, 

 5.6 microns latus, vails circum- 

 dato. Parte posteriore granula 

 praedita." 

 T. Silvatica Swir. 

 T. hispida (Perty) Stein var. 



rugosus nov. var. 



Diagnosis — " Testa ovali, 

 brunnea, 20 microns longa, 16 

 microns lata. Porus flagelli col- 

 lare nullus. Membrana aspera. 

 Chlorophoris discoideis." 

 T. chinensis Skvortzow. 



IV. — On the Study of the Manchurian Wheat. 



"Who does not know that Manchuria is the richest wheat 

 country in China? At the present time in the Northern part 

 of it the culture of this cereal takes more than two millions 

 of acres and the total yield every year comes to 20 millions 

 of piculs. The sowing of wheat yearly increases as well as 

 the export to the Eussian Far East. Manchuria grows in 

 commercial importance from year to year. 



The local wheat is composed not only of one botanical 

 form, but contains a combination of different kinds and 

 varieties. The botanical composition of the Manchurian 

 wheat is very irregular and the following list will show 

 this : — 



Smooth wheat. {Triticum vulgar e Vill). 



1. — White bearded wheat. (T. vulgar i e var. erythros- 

 permum Keke.) There are bearded white spikes, with reddish 

 grain, the weight of which is more than the grains of white 

 unbearded wheat. 



2. — White unbearded wheat. (T. vulgare var. lutescens 

 Al.). The form without beards with white spikes and red 

 grains. These grains are better than the grains of the white 

 bearded wheat. 



3. — Red bearded wheat. (T. vulgare var. ferrugineum. 

 Al.). The spikes are bearded, with reddish grains. The 

 second and the third forms are not very different from each 

 other and their grains are of the same quality as the white 

 bearded wheat. 



4. — T. vulgare var. coesium Al. This variety has gray- 

 blue bearded spikes. 



5. — Red unbearded wheat. The spikes are red without 

 beards and have reddish grains. 



