348 PLANT INVENTORY NO. 166 



253842 to 253870. 



From the Near East. Seeds collected by P. F. Knowles, collaborator, New Crops 

 Research Branch, Crops Research Division, Beltsville, Maryland. Received 

 November 21, 1958. 



253842 to 253848. Carthamtts flavescens Willd. Asteraceae. 



253842. Col. No. K1168. Aleppo road, 21.5 km. from Damascus, Syria. 



253843. Col. No. K1171. Thirty-six km. north of Damascus, Aleppo road. 

 Syria. 



253844. Col. No. K1172. Fifty-nine km. north of Damascus, Aleppo road, 

 Syria. 



253845. Col. No. K1175. Eight km. south of Hama, Damascus-Aleppo road, 

 Syria. 



253846. Col. No. K1176. Thirty km. north of Hama, Damascus-Aleppo road, 

 Syria. 



253847. Col. No. K1179. One hundred km. south of Aleppo, Syria. 



253848. Col. No. K1180. Fifty km. south of Aleppo, Syria. 

 253849 to 253861. Carthamus glatjcus Bieb. 



253849. Col. No. K1092. Twelve km. from Amman, Jerusalem road, Jordan. 

 Plants to 8 dm. high. 



253850. Col. No. K1130. Ninety-three km. from Amman, Amman-Nablus 

 road, Jordan. 



253851. Col. No. K1181. Forty km. south of Aleoppo, Syria. Flowers dark 

 purple. 



253852. Col. No. K1185. Forty km. east of Mosul, Erbil road, Iraq. Flowers 

 light purple. 



253853. Col. No. K1193. South side of River Zab, Mosul-Erbil road, Iraq. 

 Flowers almost white. 



253854. Col. No. K1205, Fifty-four km. north of Mosul, Iraq. 



253855. Col. No. K1206. Fifty-seven km. north of Mosul, Iraq. 



253856. Col. No. K1213. Eighty-eight km. north of Mosul, Iraq. 



253857. Col. No. K1262. TWo km. southeast of Deltawa, Iraq. 



253858. Col. No. K1280. Twenty km. east of Kirkuk, Iraq. 



253859. Col. No. K1282. Twenty-seven km. east of Kirkuk, Iraq. 



253860. Col. No. K1295. About 15 km. west of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. 



253861. Col. No. K1306. Fifty-six km. southeast of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. 

 253862 to 253866. Carthamus lanatus L. 



253862. Col. No. K1195. One hundred twenty-four km. from Mosul, Salahu- 

 din road, Iraq. 



253863. Col. No. K1285. Sixty km. east of Kirkuk, Iraq. Plants to nine 

 dm. high. 



253864. Col. No. K1293. Seventy-three km. east of Kirkuk, Iraq. 



253865. Col. No. K1305. Fifty-six km. southeast of Sulaimaniya, Iraq. 



253866. Col. No. K1758. North of Kabul, Shairpur area, Afghanistan. 

 253867 to 253870. Carthamus nitidus Boiss. 



253867. Col. No. K1126. Ninety -nine km. from Amman, Jerusalem- Jericho 

 road, Jordan. 



253868. Col. No. K1169. Twenty-six km. from Damascus, Damascus-Aleppo 

 highway, Syria. 



253869. Col. No. K1127. Ninety-one km. from Amman, Jerusalem-Jericho 

 road, Jordan. 



253870. Col. No. K1167. Twenty-one km. from Damascus, Damascus-Aleppo 

 road, Syria. 



