t L8 SEEDS Wli PLANTS EMPORTED. 



13359 to 13556 Continued. 



13553. AtRIPLKX BRACTEOSA. 



Prom Phoenix, Ariz. Collected by Dr. D. Griffiths, October U5, L903. 

 (Agrost. L824. 



13554. A i Kii-i.i:\ bra< rEOSA. 



Prom Tucson, Ariz. Collected by Dr. D. Griffiths, October ll, L903. 



13555. Atkii'I i:\ 8RACTE08A. 



Prom San Rita Mountains, Arizona. Collected by Dr. D. Griffiths, October 

 10, 1903. Agrost. 1821 



13556. A.TRIPLE.X COXFERTIFOLLA. 



Collected b^ Dr. D. Griffiths, L903. From valley of the Little Colorado, 

 Arizona. Vgrost. 1828. 



13557. An;iru:\ BRACTEOSA. 



From Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona. Collected bv Dr. I ». Griffiths, May 

 23, L903. Agrost. L827. 



13558. Mi i ii otus si i ■ u \. 



From Algeria, October, 1903. (Agrost. 1161.) 



13559. Million - sp] 



From Shao-king, Chehkiang Province, China. Received February 12, L904. 

 ted bj Mr. Cyril E. Bomfield. 



" The < Jhinese mainly use it- heavy, rank growth for fertilizing the Boil pre- 

 vious to sowing rice." Agrost i 3< 



13560. Tri FOLIUM LONGii Mountain clover. 



Froril Wenache Mountains, Washington, at altitude of 5,000 feet. < Collected 

 by Mr. J. S. I otton, October, 1904. 



13561. Medicago 8ATIVA. Alfalfa. 

 oa A. LeCoq&Co., Darmstadt, Germany, March 28, L903. 



Turl 



13562. HORDEOM BCLBOSUM. 



R ceived .Tune 28, 1904. Agrost. 263. 



13563. I'a.mu'm maximum. Guinea grass. 

 From Barbados, W< si 1 1 1 < 1 i « - . 



13564. Medicago bativa. Alfalfa. 

 I rom Mollendo, Peru. Collected by Mr. Enrique Meier in L903. (Agrost. 



2168. 



13565. Andbopogon sokghum. Milo maize. 

 Purchased from Air. W. VV. Hutchens, Chillicothe, Tex., in the autumn of 



L904. Agrost. 2090. 



13566. Bouteloua CURTIPENDULA. Side oats. 



Received from Mr. .lames K. Metcalfe, Silver City, N. Mex., February26, 

 1904. Agrost. 1889.) 



13567. Olea europaea. Olive. 



From Tunis. North Africa. Received from Air. Louis Fidelle, thru Air. T. H. 

 Kearney, April 20, 1905. 



Chemkdi. '-This is an olive with very small fruit, very rich in oil, and a heavy 

 yielder, adapted to the driest, hottest region known in which olive culture flourishes, 

 the rainfall at Sfax, in southern Tunis, where it is the only variety grown extensively, 

 averaging about 10 inches yearly, and sometimes falling to 5 or 6 inches as the aver- 

 age for several successive years. Notwithstanding this small rainfall, the orchards 

 are never irrigated at Sfax except during the first two or three summers after plant- 



