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1058. Triticum vulgare. Wheat. 



Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. 



1059. Onobrychis onobrychis. Sainfoin. 



From Akmolinsk, Siberia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. 

 (1 package.) 



Wild in Siberia. 



1060. Apocynum venetum. 



From the Experiment Station at Valujka, near Rovnaya, Samara Province, 

 Russia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (1 package.) 



A fiber plant. 



1061. Agropyron. Wheat grass. 



From the Experiment Station at Valujka, near Rovnaya, Samara Province, 

 Russia. Received through Prof. N". E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (1 package.) 



Grows wild in Valujka. 



1062. Panicularia. Manna grass. 



From the Experiment Station at Valujka, near Rovnaya, Samara Province, 

 Russia. Received through Prof. N". E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (1 package.) 



Only grass on Avet saline soil at that locality. 



1063. JVIelilotus officinalis. Yellow melilot. 



From the Experiment Station at Valujka, near Rovnaya, Samara Province, 

 Russia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. 



Wild at Valujka, flowers yellow, good on saline soils; used for cheese flavor; very 

 woody, strongly aromatic, resembling Trigonella caerulea. 



1064. Medicago lupulina. Black medic. 



From the Experiment Station at Valujka, near Rovnaya, Samara Province, 

 Russia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (I package.) 



Ai found wild. 



1065. Lotus corniculatus. Bird's-foot trefoil. 



From the Valujka Experiment Station, Samara Province, Russia. Received 

 through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (1 package. ) 



"Variety tenuifolia." Growing on saline soils. 



1066. Cicer arietinum. Chick pea. 



From the Agricultural school at Urals k, on the Ural River, Russia. Received 

 through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. 



"Schaferbse" (sheep pea). Originally from Turkestan. Used for fodder. 



1067. Lagenaria vulgaris ( ?). Bottle gourd. 



From Asia. Received through Prof. N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (2 packages.) 



From a Cossack captain with the Preczevalsky expedition in Asia, requested by 

 Yaroslav Memetz to collect seeds. 



1068. Helianthus. Sunflower. 



From Kief Agricultural Exposition, September, 1897. Received through Prof. 

 N. E. Hansen, May 24, 1898. (2 packages.) 



