Plant Inventory No. 134 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 Washington, D. C. November 1949 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANT EX- 

 PLORATION AND INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 1 

 JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1938 (Nos. 126494 to 128322) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement ,- . S - 1 



Inventory 2 



Index of common and scientific names 74 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This inventory, No. 134, is a record of the plant material (Nos. 

 126494 to 128322) received by the Division of Plant Exploration and 

 Introduction during the period from January 1 to March 31, 1938. 



The extended comments on the agricultural explorations of H. L. 

 Blood in South America and Walter Koelz in Afghanistan and India, 

 included in the introduction to Inventory No. 133, may well apply to 

 this inventory also ; for a large proportion of the plant materials re- 

 ceived during this period is the result of the continuing activity of the 

 two agricultural explorers mentioned, and the nature of the material 

 received was very largely the same. 



With the special object of furnishing working material for corn 

 breeders in the semiarid Southwest, four lots of locally developed 

 varieties were introduced from Peru and Bolivia (Zea mays; Nos. 

 127717-127724, 127762-127770, 127892-127898, and 127901-127904). 



This inventory has been prepared under the supervision of Paul 

 Russell, who has checked or identified the incoming seed materials and 

 has verified the botanical nomenclature and descriptive notes. 



C. O. Erlanson, 



Principal Horticulturist, in Charge, 

 Division of Plant Exploration and 

 Introduction, Plant Industry Sta- 

 tion, Beltsville, Md. 



1 Now Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, Agricul- 

 tural Research Administration, United States Department of Agriculture. 



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