180 BULLETIN 1074, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Distribution. — Coppei was reported in 1919 from Columbia and Whitman 

 Counties, Wash. 



WILBUR (EARLY WILBUR). 



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

 awnless, oblong, dense, erect; glumes pubescent, brown, short, midwide; apical 

 awns many, 1 to 3 cm. long ; kernels white, midsized, soft. 



History — The origin of Early Wilbur was recorded by Hunter (125) in 1909 

 to be as follows : 



Some 10 or 12 years ago Mr. W. J. Mariner, of Blalock, Oreg., was at Wilbur, 

 W T ash., where he found the farmers growing Jenkin's Club. He was pleased 

 with the wheat and shipped a carload home for seed. In growing the Jenkins 

 he noticed stools of another variety growing here and there that were earlier 

 and filled better than the Jenkins. Seed of this early variety was gathered and 

 grown separately until 2,500 bushels were on hand, when it was sold at $1 per 

 bushel for seed. Each year the plat was carefully looked over and individual 

 plants not true to type were discarded. Because of its earliness and because 

 the wheat was found in seed that came from Wilbur, Wash., Mr. Mariner called 

 it Early Wilbur. Considerable, of this wheat is now grown in Sherman and 

 Gilliam Counties, in Oregon, as well as other localities. 



Distribution. — Reported in 1919 from Gilliam, Jefferson, and Sherman Coun- 

 ties, Oreg. 



MAYVIEW. 



Description, — Plant spring habit, late, midtall; stem usually white, some- 

 times faintly purple on lower internodes; spike awned, elliptical to clavate, 

 dense, erect ; glumes glabrous, brown, midlong, wide ; shoulders midwide, usu- 

 ally rounded; beaks wide, incurved, 1 to 4 mm. long; awns 2 to 5 cm. long; 

 kernels red, short, soft, ovate, humped, curved; germ small; crease midwide, 

 shallow; cheeks usually angular; brush small, short. 



This variety is distinguished by the awned spikes. (PI. LIIL, B.) 



History. — This wheat was found growing in the summer of 1917 in the vi- 

 cinity of May View, Wash., by Prof. E. F. Gaines, of the Washington Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, who named the variety Mayview. It originated 

 from a selection of an admixture in a field of Fortyfold in 1911 or 1912. Sev- 

 eral thousand bushels were said to have been grown around May View, Wash., 

 by 1915. Its culture has since been largely discontinued on account of its 

 awns. 



Distribution. — Mayview was not reported in the survey of 1919, but samples 

 of the variety have been received for identification from Garfield County, 

 Wash., Adams County, Oreg., and Fergus County, Mont. 



POULARD WHEAT. 



The poulard wheats usually are tall, with broad leaves. The culms 

 are thick, usually solid, but sometimes pithy. The spikes are long 

 and occasionally compound or branched. The spikelets are com- 

 pactly arranged on the spike and the glumes are short and sharply 

 keeled. The kernels are thick, humped, and mostly hard, but usu- 

 ally become very starchy (yellow berry). 



The poulards are most closely related to the durums. The glumes 

 and kernels usually are shorter and the kernels thicker in the dorso- 



