UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 120 



Washington, D. C. W Issued August 1937 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANT EXPLO- 

 RATION AND INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, JULY 

 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1934 (Nos. 105933-106560) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 24 





INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This inventory, No. 120, is a record of the plant material received by the 

 Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction from July 1 to September 30, 

 1934 (nos. 105933-100560). 



Particular attention should be called to the introduction of seeds of 135 

 wheat crosses from Australia (nos. 106026-106053, 106146-106180. 106183-106188, 

 106192-108229, 106295-106310, 106315-106326), presented by the Director of Plant 

 Breeding, Sydney, New South Wales. These crosses, in which American vari- 

 eties appear frequently as one of the parents, were made chiefly at the Wagga 

 Experiment Farm, Bomen, and their introduction into this country is a con- 

 tribution to the plant materials available to Department specialists. 



Also worthy of special note, and from the same part of the world, are seeds 

 of an interesting lot of dry-land plants, including several native forage grasses 

 (nos. 106467-106482). These were collected in semiarid central Australia and 

 will be tested in the drier portions of the United States where the winters are 

 not too severe. A number of forage grasses from desert regions likewise are 

 included in a collection of miscellaneous seeds from South Africa (nos. 106073- 

 106100), presented by the McGregor Museum at Kimberley, Cape Colony. 



Tubers of 25 native Peruvian varieties of the potato (nos. 106390-106414) 

 were presented by the Estacion Experimental Agricola, La Molina, Lima. 

 Coming as these do from the general region where the potato is believed to 

 have had its origin, this lot of tubers will have especial interest for plant 

 breeders. 



The Director of the Station Experimentale de Kisozi, Ruanda-Urundi, Africa, 

 has sent in seeds (nos. 106452-106461) of native leguminous plants, suitable 

 for testing as cover crops in the southern United States. All of these, with 

 one exception, appear never before to have been introduced into this country. 



The botanical determinations have been made and the nomenclature deter- 

 mined by Paul Russell, who has had general supervision of this inventory. 



B. Y. Morrison, 

 Principal Horticulturist, in Charge. 



Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction, 

 Washington, D. C, April 2J h 1937. 

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