JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1936 



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113897. Phleum pratense L. Poaceae. 



Timothy. 



From Scotland. Seeds presented by William 

 Kobb. Director of Research, Scottish So- 

 ciety for Research in Plant Breeding, 

 Craigs House, Corstorphine. Received 

 Maich 3, 1936. 



Diploid timothy. 



113898 to 113901. Malus' sylvestris 

 Mill. Malaceae. Apple. 



From the Union of South Africa. Plants 

 purchased from H. E. V. Pickstone & Son, 

 Groot Drakenstein, Cape of Good Hope. 

 Received July 30, 1934. Numbered in 

 March 1936. 



113898. Ohinemuri. 



113899. RoJcewood. 



113900. Wemmer's Hoek. 



113901. William Anderson. 



113902. Vitis vinieera L. Vitaceae. 



European grape. 



From Japan. Cuttings presented by Rev. 

 A. P. Hassell, the Japan Mission of the 

 Presbyterian Church of the United States, 

 Tokushima. Received March 7, 1936. 



Okayama grape (Campbell Early). 



113903. Brunfelsia Americana L. So- 

 lanaceae. Franciscan nightshade. 



From Trinidad, British West Indies. Seeds 

 presented by the curator, Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Port-of-Spain. Received Febru- 

 ary 28, 1936. 



A tropical American plant of dwarf habit, 

 with slender branches and elliptic-ovate, 

 glabrous leaves. The pure white, solitary 

 flowers, shading to pure-yellow with age, are 

 in axillary or terminal panicles and are very 

 fragrant. 



For previous introduction see 97903. 



113904. Crotalaria sp. Fabaceae. 



From Africa. Seeds presented by R. Ander- 

 son, Yapata Estate, Kitale, Kenya Colony. 

 Received February 29, 1936. 



113905 to 113910. 



From Norway. Seeds presented by the Di- 

 rector. Botanic Garden, Oslo. Received 

 March 3, 1936. 



113905. Allium mdltibulbosdm Jacq. 

 Liliaceae. Onion. 



An onion closely resembling Allium ni- 

 grum, but differing in the numerous spheri- 

 cal bulblets, its broader and shorter leaves, 

 and in certain floral characters. The flow- 

 ers, entirely white or with a reddish cen- 

 tral stripe in the petals, are in a dense 

 globular cluster. Native to meadows in 

 central Europe. 



Foe previous introduction see 95357. 



113906 to 113908. Festuca spp. Poaceae. 



Fescue. 



113906. Festuca ovina L. Sheep fescue. 



113907. Festuca panciciana (Hack.) 

 Richt. 



A perennial grass, native to Europe. 



113905 to 113910— Continued. 



113908. Festuca spectabilis Jan. 



A grass native to the mountainous 

 regions of central Europe. 



For previous introduction see 25211. 



113909. Iris polakii Stapf. Iridaceae. 



An Iranian iris of the Pumila group 

 with narrow linear leaves and a one-flow- 

 ered stem up to 4 inches high, with a 

 large violet-veined lilac flower. 



113910. Iris tridentata Pursh. Iridaceae. 



A slender Apogon iris with rather firm, 

 narrow-linear leaves over a foot long and 

 a one- to three-flowered stalk about 2 feet 

 high. The fragrant flowers are bright 

 lilac. Native to the southeastern United 

 States. 



113911 and 113912. 



From the Soviet Union. Seeds presented by 

 the Director, Government Botanical Gar- 

 den, Nikita, Yalta, Crimea. Received: 

 March 4, 1936. 



113911. Iris ensata Thunb. Iridaceae. 



Russian iris, 



For 1 previous introduction see 110131. 



113912. Lallemantia iberica (Bieb.)> 

 Fisch. and Mey. Menthaceae. 



A blue-flowered herbaceous perennial, 

 native t'o semiarid regions in Asia Minor 

 and Syria, whose seeds yield an oil said 

 to be a high-grade drying oil. 



For previous introduction see 99344. 



113913 to 113941. Triticum aestivtjm L. 

 Poaceae. Common wheat* 



From Australia. Seeds presented by the 

 plant breeder at the Cowra Experiment 

 Farm, through H. Wenholz, Director of 

 Plant Breeding, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Sydney, New South Wales. Re- 

 ceived March 3, 1936. 



113913. Apollo. C. 4661. 



113914. Carraoin. C. 4991. 



113915. Caliph. C. 2708. 



113916. Currawa. C. 9220. 



113917. Dart's Imperial. C. 339. 



113918. Flora. C. 3995. 



113919. Florence. C. 8808. 



113920. Florida. C. 3998. 



113921. Florida X Warren. C. 8977. 



113922. Ghurka. C. 9234. 



113923. Heine's Kolben. C. 5137. 



113924. Jindera, C. 3994. 



113925. Kenya X Baringa. 668-5-Ei-2-C 4 . 



113926. Kenya X Florence. Gi-1-Ex-l-Cs. 



113927. Kenya X Gular. G-22-1-N2-Q. 



113928. Kenya X Gular. G 22 -2-Ni-C 3 . 



113929. Kenya X Gular. 0-34-2-Er-l-C^ 



113930. Kenya X Gular. G-22-2-N 3 -C 4 . 



113931. Kenya X Gular. 0-41-4^-2^. 



113932. Kenya X Gular. G-6-2-Ex-2-C 4 . 



113933. Klein 38 M. A. C. 9656. 



