CLASSIFICATION OF AMERICAN WHEAT VARIETIES. 115 



Distribution— Grown in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. The distribution is shown in 

 Figure 44. 



Synonyms. — Bluestem, Lebanon Valley, Mortgage Lifter, and Pennsylvania 

 Bluesteni. Bluestem and Pennsylvania Bluestem are names widely used for 

 China in the States where it is grown. A. H. Hoffman, seedsman, of Landis- 

 ville, Pa., has distributed the variety in that State under the name Pennsylvania 

 Bluestem. 



Lebanon Valley is the name under which a sample of China was obtained 

 from R. Chester Ross, of Honey Brook, Pa., who stated that the variety 

 " Originated in Lebanon Valley, Pa." 



Mortgage Lifter is the name under which a sample of China was obtained 

 from the Cornell University station in 1912. 



WHEEDLING. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, late, midtall to tall; stem purple, strong; 

 spike awnless, oblong-fusiform, middense, erect; glumes glabrous, light brown, 

 midlong to long, midwide; shoulders wanting to 

 narrow, oblique; beaks wide, obtuse, 0.5 to 1 mm. 

 long; apical awns few, 3 to 15 mm. long; kernels 

 red, midlong, soft, ovate; germ midsized; crease 

 midwide, middeep; cheeks angular; brush small, 

 midlong. 



Wheedling differs from China in being shorter 

 and in having a more erect spike and narrower FlG 44._outiine map of a 

 shoulders. portion of the eastern 



History.— " This variety was originated about United States, showing 



18 years ago (1890) by Louis Wheedling, of In- th , e * *tribution of China 



;. J ,.. T ' ■ . . ' „ . . if. , . wheat in 1919. Esti- 



diana. Mr. Wheedling, while walking in his wheat mated area, 63,900 acres, 



field, noticed some heads slightly different from 



the surrounding ones. These he selected, and from them came the variety that 

 bears his name" (122, p. 90). 



Distribution. — Grown in Cass, Clinton, Elkhart, Marshall, and St. Joseph 

 Counties, Ind. 



RED MAY. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, early, midtall to tall; stem purple, mid- 

 strong; spike awnless, usually oblong, middense, erect to inclined; glumes 

 glabrous, brown, short to midlong, wide ; shoulders wide, usually square ; beaks 

 narrow, triangular, 0.5 mm. long; apical awns few, 3 to 12 mm. long; kernels 

 red, usually short, soft, ovate ; germ midsized ; crease midwide to wide, middeep 

 to deep ; cheeks usually angular ; brush usually small, midlong. 



Red May differs from Poole and China in being earlier and in having a 

 broader and more oblong spike and wider glumes with squarer shoulders. The 

 glumes and shoulders of Red May also are wider than those of Wheedling. 

 Spikes, glumes, and kernels of Red May wheat are shown in Plate XXIX, B. 



History. — The Red May is believed to be identical with or descended from 

 the Red or Yellow Lammas. Several writers have suggested the identity. 

 Tracy (195, p. 396) mentions Yellow Lammas as being a synonym of Red May. 

 The Lammas was mentioned by Koernicke and Werner (1SS, p. 253 and 290) 

 as being a very old English wheat grown previous even to 1699. Both the Red 

 and Yellow Lammas were grown in Virginia many years before the Revolu- 

 tionary War. A White May wheat of a later period, according to Cabell (56, 



