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251956 to 251974. Urginea maritima (L.) Baker Liliaceae. 



Sea-onion. 



From Portugal, Spain and Greece. Bulbs collected by H. S. Gentry, agricultural 

 explorer, New Crops Research Branch, Crops Research Division, Beltsville, 

 Md. Received Oct. 15, 1958. 



251956. Col. No. 16894. 'Cebola Alberan'. Northeast of Evora, Portugal. 

 Elevation 500 meters. Cluster of white squill with soft succulent bulbs, 

 weighing to 2.5 kilos each. 



251957. Col. No. 16895. 'Cebola Alberan'. Thirty-eight km. northeast of 

 Evora. Elevation 500 meters. 



251958. Col. No. 16916. Santiago, 140 km. southeast of Lisbon, Portugal. 

 White bulbs. 



251959. Col. No. 16917. Oeiras, Portugal. 



251960. Col. No. 16918. Oeiras, Portugal. Small white squill, but some bulbs 

 tinged with lavender. 



251961. Col. No. 16931. 'Cebola Borda'. Near Cullera, Spain. White squil) 

 forming small clusters of bulbs of good size, one to two kilos each. 



251962. Col. No. 16987. 'Cebola Borda'. Sierra Despenaperos, Spain. Eleva- 

 tion 1,000 meters. Cold resistant. 



251963. Col. No. 16988. Sierra Despenaperos, Spain. Elevation 1,000 meters. 

 White squill, leaves close, erect. 



251964. Col. No. 16996. Messara, Crete. Elevation 230 meters. Bulbs red- 

 dish, single and in clumps ; leaves dry. 



251965. Col. No. 16997. Messara, Crete. Elevation 230 meters. Bulbs red- 

 dish, single and clustered. 



251966. Col. No. 16998. Messara, Crete. Elevation 230 meters. Bulbs red- 

 dish, clustered. 



251967. Col. No. 17006. Canyon, Potamous Amari, Crete. Elevation 600 

 meters. Bulbs large, vigorous, single, cespitose, reddish. 



251968. Col. No. 17011. Karoti, Rethymnon, Crete. Elevation 160 meters. 

 Bulbs white and reddish, large, in clusters. 



251969. Col. No. 17019. Clay soil, 25 km. southeast of Iraklion, Crete. Ele- 

 vation 300 meters. Bulbs single, reddish. 



251970. Col. No. 17027. Saint Nicolas. Bulbs small, dry, white, single. 



251971. Col. No. 17119. ( No field note. ) 



251972. Col. No. 17120. Northwest of Menidhion between Arta and Arginion, 

 Greece. Bulbs red. 



251973. Col. No. 17121. One km. north of Menidhion between Arta and 

 Arginion, Greece. Bulbs red. 



251974. Col. No. 17338. Korcula Island, Greece. 



251975 to 252005. 



From Turkey and Afghanistan. Seeds collected by P. F. Knowles, collaborator, 

 New Crops Research Branch, Crops Research Division, Beltsville, Md. 

 Received Oct. 15, 1958. 



From Turkey, unless otherwise noted. 



251975. Chbysopogon gbyixus (L.) Trin. Poaceae. 



Col. No. K1939. Twenty miles west of Istanbul. Plant to 36 inches high. 



251976. Bromus scoparius L. Poaceae. 



Col. No. K760. Twenty miles west of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Plants to 

 eight inches high. 



