﻿APRIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1910. 
  79 
  

  

  28296 
  to 
  28303— 
  Continued. 
  

  

  28299. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Ninth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  28300. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Tenth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  28301. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Eleventh 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  28302. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Twelfth 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  28303. 
  Agrost. 
  No. 
  2113. 
  Thirteenth, 
  plant 
  in 
  row. 
  

  

  28304 
  and 
  28305. 
  Oryza 
  sativa 
  L. 
  Rice. 
  

  

  From 
  Anam, 
  French 
  Indo-China. 
  Procured 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Miller 
  Joblin, 
  vice 
  and 
  deputy 
  

   consul 
  in 
  charge, 
  Saigon, 
  Cochin 
  China, 
  from 
  the 
  chief 
  of 
  agricultural 
  service 
  

   in 
  Anam. 
  Received 
  June 
  20, 
  1910. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  28304. 
  Lua 
  Chum, 
  28305. 
  Luachiem. 
  

  

  28306 
  to 
  28324. 
  

  

  From 
  Russia. 
  Received 
  through 
  Prof. 
  N. 
  E. 
  Hansen, 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  

   Station, 
  Brookings, 
  S. 
  Dak., 
  May 
  20, 
  1910. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following; 
  notes 
  by 
  Professor 
  Hansen: 
  

  

  28306. 
  Agropyron 
  cristatum 
  (L.) 
  Beauv. 
  

  

  "(No. 
  262.) 
  This 
  is 
  considered 
  a 
  very 
  valuable 
  grass. 
  Native 
  of 
  the 
  driest 
  

   steppes 
  of 
  eastern 
  Russia 
  and 
  a 
  large 
  part 
  of 
  Siberia. 
  The 
  chemical 
  analysis 
  of 
  

   this 
  plant 
  has 
  attracted 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Russian 
  Government 
  agronomists, 
  

   indicating 
  a 
  higher 
  percentage 
  of 
  protein 
  than 
  alfalfa. 
  If 
  this 
  holds 
  true 
  under 
  

   cultivation 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  verv 
  valuable 
  addition 
  to 
  our 
  

   western 
  grasses. 
  Prof. 
  R. 
  W. 
  Williams, 
  of 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Agricultural 
  College 
  at 
  

   Moscow, 
  Russia, 
  is 
  improving 
  this 
  species 
  by 
  selection 
  from 
  individual 
  plants. 
  

   The 
  present 
  sample 
  is 
  selection 
  No. 
  1. 
  The 
  original 
  seed 
  was 
  gathered 
  from 
  

   wild 
  plants 
  growing 
  in 
  the 
  Turgai 
  Province, 
  the 
  dry 
  steppe 
  region 
  in 
  western 
  

   Asia 
  just 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  Sea 
  of 
  Aral. 
  This 
  seed 
  is 
  from 
  a 
  single 
  plant 
  selected 
  

   from 
  the 
  original 
  plant 
  raised 
  at 
  Moscow 
  from 
  this 
  wild 
  seed. 
  Hence, 
  the 
  

   second 
  generation 
  under 
  cultivation. 
  The 
  basis 
  of 
  selection 
  in 
  this 
  selection 
  

   No. 
  1 
  is 
  a 
  rather 
  long 
  and 
  narrow 
  inflorescence." 
  

  

  28307. 
  Agropyron 
  sibiricum 
  (Willd.) 
  Beauv. 
  

  

  "(No. 
  272.) 
  A 
  grass 
  native 
  of 
  the 
  dry 
  steppes 
  of 
  eastern 
  Eruopean 
  Russia 
  

   and 
  western 
  Siberia. 
  The 
  present 
  lot 
  is 
  selection 
  No. 
  1, 
  grown 
  from 
  a 
  single 
  

   plant, 
  by 
  Prof. 
  R. 
  W. 
  Williams, 
  of 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Agricultural 
  College, 
  Moscow, 
  

   Russia." 
  

  

  Distribution. 
  — 
  The 
  trans-Caucasian 
  provinces 
  of 
  southern 
  Russia 
  and 
  east- 
  

   ward 
  to 
  the 
  Altai 
  Mountains 
  in 
  Siberia. 
  

  

  28308. 
  Agropyron 
  sp. 
  

  

  "(No. 
  275.) 
  A 
  native 
  grass 
  collected 
  on 
  the 
  Russian 
  Pamir 
  plateau 
  near 
  the 
  

   border 
  of 
  India 
  in 
  a 
  six 
  months' 
  tour 
  in 
  1899 
  by 
  the 
  late 
  M. 
  I. 
  Toulinoff, 
  assistant 
  

   to 
  Professor 
  Williams 
  at 
  the 
  Imperial 
  Agricultural 
  College, 
  Moscow, 
  Russia. 
  

   The 
  present 
  sample 
  is 
  selection 
  No. 
  1, 
  by 
  Professor 
  Williams." 
  

  

  28309. 
  Trifolium 
  pratense 
  L. 
  Red 
  clover. 
  

   "(No. 
  280.) 
  The 
  native 
  red 
  clover 
  from 
  Uleaborg 
  Province, 
  Finland, 
  from 
  

  

  seed 
  cultivated 
  there 
  about 
  one 
  hundred 
  years. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  original 
  seed 
  from 
  

   the 
  peasants, 
  not 
  cleaned 
  or 
  selected. 
  Sample 
  obtained 
  from 
  Professor 
  

   Williams, 
  Moscow." 
  

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