INVENTOEY 



3401. SOLANUM. 



From Costa Rica. Received through Mr. C. Werckle, 1899. 



"A more or less trailing, annual species, very fertile; fruit about the size of small 

 Chickasaw plums, green, with dark brown stripes (from black green to violet brown) ; 

 in racemes of from 4 to 8; drops when ripe and keeps for weeks; gets soft; skin semi- 

 transparent. Not edible when raw; makes very good pies that remind one of 

 gooseberry. ' ' ( Werckle. ) 



3402. Phcenix dactylifera. Date. 



From Algeria. Received through Mr. W. T. Swingle, June, 1899. Presented 

 by Dr. Trabut. 



Tinnoud de Touat. 1 Distributed. 



3403. Triticum durum. Wheat. 



From Chili. Received through Messrs. Lathrop and Fairchild, June, 1899. 



Trigo Candeal. " Macaroni wheat, This durum wheat is rather commonly grown 

 in Chili and Argentina. It is chiefly valuable for the production of macaroni. It 

 has long, compact, bearded heads and yellowish- white hard grains. It will prob- 

 ably be resistant to drought and orange-leaf rust. Adapted for growing in dry, hot, 

 districts such as west Texas and the drier portions of Colorado, Kansas, and Okla- 

 homa. South of the thirty-fifth parallel it should be grown as a winter wheat, sown 

 October 15 to November 15; north of this line it will probably not stand the winter, 

 and should be sown February 15 to March 1." ( Carleton. ) Distributed. 



3404. Triticum vulgare. Wheat. 



From Chili. Received through Messrs. Lathrop and Fairchild, 1899. 



Trigo Blanco. Soft wheat. (For the Pacific coast. ) 



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3405. Ceratonia siliqua. Carob bean. 



From Algeria. Received through Mr. W. T. Swingle, April, 1899. 



Young carob seedlings, for use as stocks on which to graft improved varieties. 

 (See No. 3112, Inventory No. 7.) 



3406. Paliurus aculeatus. Christ's-thorn. 



From Algeria, Received through Mr. W. T. Swingle, April, 1899. 



"A half hardy, thorny, deciduous shrub or small tree, growing from 15 to 30 feet 

 high, native of southern Europe and western Asia. It belongs to the buck-thorn 

 family (RJtamnacex), and bears curious buckler-shaped fruits. From its resem- 

 blance to a hat, the French call the plant porte-chapeaux. Christ's-thorn is abundant 

 in southern France in dry situations. It is particularly abundant in calcareous soils. 

 It is reproduced by suckers." (Swingle. ) "It grows about the same height as the 

 common thorn on rocky, sterile places. In many parts of Italy hedges are formed 

 of this plant," (Loudon.) Distributed. 



1 The varietal name where known is italicized. 



