38 SEEDS A.ND PLANTS [MPORTED. 



25641— Continued. 



in meat and fish dishes. Foreigners in China grate them and serve them boiled as 

 a winter vegetable, in which state they resemble sweel corn very much in looks and 

 taste. 



"The plants need a hot summer to mature and are grown on a muck or clayey soil 

 with several inches of standing water on top, very much in the same manner as 

 wet-land rice.'* | Prank N. Meyer.) 



Distribution.— A native of China, and extensively cultivated there for its tubers. 



25642 to 25645. Vicia faba L. Horse bean. 



From Malaga, Spain. Presented by Mr. Charles M. Caughy, American consul. 

 Received June 17. 1909. 

 Seeds of the following: 



25642. Morada. 25644. Mazagana. 



25643. Cochinera (pig). 25645. Tarragona. 



"These beans are soaked for 12 hours and planted in land which isthoroughly 

 irrigated. No further attention is paid to them until the stalk- arc aboul '-! feet high. 

 They all occupy about the same time in ripeningand in parts of the district then' 

 are 3 plantings a year, \iz. September, December, and March. 



■■ It is impossible to say anything as to their ability to resist frost, as that is uol 

 experienced here. 



••The stalks are fed to stock without any preparation whatsoever except to cut 

 them in short lengths, and have Buch little value that they are given to those who 

 are willing to take them away." [Caughy.) 



25646 to 25648. 



From Vachow. China. Procured by Mr. 11. .). Openshaw. Received June L6, 

 1909. 

 The following seeds: 



25646 and 25647. Phaseolub vulgaris I.. 



25646. Mottled red. 25647. I'.lack. 



25648. Dolichos lablab L. Bonavist bean. 



Black. 



25649 to 25658. Glycine hispida (Moench) Maxim. Soy bean. 

 From Newchwang, China. Presented by Mr. Fred. D. Fisher, American con- 

 sul. Keceived June 18, 1909. 

 The following seeds. Quoted notes by Mr. Fisher; descriptions of varieties by Mr. 

 C. V. Piper. 



25649 to 25651. "Pai-mei (white eyebrow), from the white sear on the 

 saddle or point of attachment to the pod." These three numbers consist 

 wholly, or mostly, of Ito San. 



25649. (Locality unknown. ) 



25650. From Mukden. 



25651. From Kwangning. 



25652. " Chin-huang (golden yellow), from the golden color and more 

 rounded shape of the bean." Subglobose yellow seeds with brown hilum. 



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