INVENTORY 



Note. — This inventory is a historical record of plant material introduced for 

 Department and other specialists. It is not to be considered as a list of plant 

 material for distribution. 



116966 to 116978. 



From Turkey. Seeds collected by H. L. 

 Westover and P. L. Wellman. Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. Received July 6, 1936. 



116966 and 116967. Althaea rosea (L.) 

 Cav. Malvaceae. Hollyhock. 



116966. No. 205. From the Konya ba- 

 zar, April 18, 1936. 



116967. No. 123. From the Ankara ba- 

 zar, April 15, 1936. 



116968. Antirrhinum sp. Scrophularia- 

 ceae. Snapdragon. 



No. 200. From the Konya bazar, April 

 18, 1936. 



116969. Cistus sp. Cistaceae. 



No. 460. Collected 25 km. northwest 

 of Mersin, April 23, 1936. 



116970. Clematis sp. Ranunculaceae. 



No. 324. From 70 km', northwest of 

 Adana, April 24. 1936. A wild plant. 



116971. Delphinium sp. Ranunculaceae. 



Larkspur. 



No. 206. From the Konya bazar, April 

 18, 1936. 



116972 to 116978. Helianthus annuus L. 

 Asteraceae. Common sunflower. 



Nos. 116972 to 116974 were from the 

 Ankara bazar, April 15, 1936. 



116972. No. 119. 



116973. No. 130. 



116974. No. 126. 



Katermerli. 

 Katmersiz. 



116966 to 116978— Continued. 



170. From Konya, April 



116975. No. 

 18, 1936. 



116976. No. 150. 

 1936. 



116977. No. 237. 

 26, 1936. 



From Afyon, April 17, 

 From Tarsus, April 



116978. No. 458. From Kayseri, May 7, 

 1936. 

 116979. Nerine flextjosa (Jacq.) Herb. 

 Amaryllidaceae. 



From the Union of South Africa. Seeds 

 purchased from the Winton Nurseries, 

 Bonnie Vale, Cape Province. Received 

 July 31, 1936. 



A South African bulbous perennial with 

 four to six bright-green linear leaves a foot 

 long and a scape 2 to 3 feet high, bearing 

 an umbel of 10 to 20 pale-pink flowers an 

 inch long. 



116980. Medicago sativa L. 



Fab'aceae. 

 Alfalfa. 



From Chile. Seeds purchased from Ray- 

 mond Du Belloy, Santiago. Received July 

 29, 1936. 



Native-grown Chilean alfalfa. 



116981. Dtjchesnea indica (Andrews) 

 Focke. Rosaceae. 



From Peru. Seeds collected by Raymond 

 Stadelman, Bureau of Plant Industry. Re- 

 ceived July 14, 1936. 



Collected May 21, 1936, at Huaras, An- 

 cash, at 3,000 m. altitude. 



1 It should be understood that the names of varieties of fruits, vegetables, cereals, and 

 other plants used in this inventory are those under which the material was received when 

 introduced by the Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction, and, further, that the 

 printing of such names here does not constitute their official publication and adoption in 

 this country. As the different varieties are studied, their entrance into the American 

 trade forecast, and the use of varietal names for them in American literature becomes 

 necessary, the foreign varietal designations appearing in this inventory will be subject to 

 change with a view to bringing the forms of the names into harmony with recognized 

 horticultural nomenclature. 



It is a well-known fact that botanical descriptions, both technical and economic, seldom 

 mention the seeds at all and rarely describe them in such a way as to make possible identi- 

 fication from the seeds alone. Many of the unusual plants listed in these inventories are 

 appearing in this country for the first time, and there are no seed samples or herbarium 

 specimens with ripe seeds with which the new arrivals may be compared. The only iden- 

 tification possible is to see that the samp'e received resembles seeds of other species of the 

 same genus or of related genera. The responsibility for the identification, therefore, must 

 necessarily often rest with the person sending the material. If there is any question 

 regarding the correctness of the identification of any plant received from this Division, 

 herbarium specimens of leaves and flowers should be sent in so that definite identification 

 can be made. 



