UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 124 



Washington, D. C. ▼ Issued January, 1940 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANT EX- 

 PLORATION AND INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 

 JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1935 (Nos. 111858 to 112306) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory : 3 



Index of common and scientific names 21 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This inventory, No. 124, records the plant material (Nos. 111858 to 

 112306) received by the Division of Plant Exploration and Intro- 

 duction during the period from July 1 to September 30, 1935. 



In order to assist Department pathologists who are attempting to 

 develop disease-resistant tobacco varieties for the United States, W. A. 

 Archer spent several months traveling through Mexico, collecting 

 seeds of all available types of cultivated tobacco from many widely 

 separated sections in that country. 



A special collection of desert shrubs and perennials (Nos. 112043 

 to 112051) from the Repetek Sand Desert Station, sent in as the 

 result of the agricultural explorations of H. L. Westover and C. R. 

 Enlow, are for testing by specialists in the Soil Conservation Serv- 

 ice of this Department. 



Mrs. Ynes Mexia, 1 to whom the Department has been indebted for a 

 number of rare plants from eastern Ecuador, was still carrying on 

 botanical explorations in that country during the autumn of 1935. 

 Included in four shipments of seeds sent in by Mrs. Mexia were two 

 lots of local alfalfa varieties (Medicago sativa, Nos. 111968 and 

 112216) and several rare ornamentals. 



Ten shipments of peanut varieties, introduced from Brazil, Uru- 

 guay, and the Union of South Africa, and representing local strains 

 developed in those countries, are intended for the use of plant breeders 

 who are attempting to develop better oil-producing varieties. 



From Auckland, New Zealand, H. R. Wright sent in to the Depart- 

 ment plants of 13 fruit varieties, including new local forms of peach, 



iDied July 11, 1938. 

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