36 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



19532 to 19543. 



From Valuiki, Samara Government, Russia. Presented by Mr. Vasili S. 

 Bogdan, director, Kostichev Agricultural Experiment Station, through 

 Prof. M. Golenkin, director, Moscow Botanical Gardens, Moscow, Russia. 

 Received December 12, 1906. 



19532. Glyceria distans. 19539. Agropyron desertorum. 



19533. Festuca ovina. (No. 3.) 



19534. Medicago falcata. 19540. Agropyron desertorum. 



19535. Poa bulbosa vivipara. (No. 4.) 



19536. Agropyron cristatum. 19541. Agropyron desertorum. 



19537. Agropyron desertorum. (No. 5.) 



(No. 1.) 19542. Agropyron triticeum. 



19538. Agropyron desertorum. 19543. Agropyron repens. 

 (No. 2.) 



19544 to 19547. Phoenix dactyeifeba. Date. 



From Muscat. Arabia. Presented by the Hills Brothers Company, New 

 York, N. Y. Received December 1, 1906. 

 Date seeds for propagating seedling date orchards in the Southwest. 



19544. Burdi. 19546. Khanaisi. 



19545. Burnt. 19547. Naghal. 



19548 and 19549. Hordeum disttchum. Barley. 



From Wordsley, Stourbridge, England. Received through Edward Webb & 

 Sons, November 14, 1906. 



19458. Webb's Kinver Chevalier. 



19549. Webb's New Burton Malting. 



19550 to 19553. Lilium spp. Lily. 



From Shanghai, China. Presented by Rev. J. M. W. Farnham, D. D. Re- 

 ceived December 18, 1906. 



19550. (Bulbs.) 19551. (Seed.) 



" This lily grows 6 or 7 feet high and bears a beautiful cream-colored 

 flower resembling what I have heard called the Japan lily; ten or more 

 flowers in one head." (Farnham.) 



19552. (Bulb.) 19553. (Seed.) 



" This lily came up in the spring, looking somewhat like a very large 

 bean plant, with two leaves. It grew to be 3 J feet tall. The leaves, 

 thick and large, were not opposite. Long before it bloomed a bud ap- 

 peared, which gradually developed and finally opened, revealing 4 buds. 

 From being erect, they began to turn down after the manner of the Japan 

 lily ('?), and when horizontal they bloomed. Each flower had 5 petals 

 6 inches long; 5 stamens. The stalk was one-half inch in diameter. The 

 petals white, with a patch through the middle 2 inches long and three- 

 fourths inch wide, reddish brown or claret color. Some of the leaves, 

 including stem, were 10 inches long and 5 inches wide. The flowers were 

 fragrant and had this peculiarity — the 4 lower petals were like a tube 

 or box, the upper one resembling a cover or lid." (Farnham.) 



19554 to 19557. 



From Grensholmen, Norsholm, Sweden. Received from Baron J. Manner- 

 heim, December 14, 1906. 



Seed obtained for the purpose of testing at the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Sitka, Alaska. 



