﻿60 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42749 to 42758— Continued. 



42756. Rubus bums VTeihe and Nees. 



"A shrub with subprostrate or low arching stems of dark purplish 

 color, armed with short decurved prickles, and furnished with nu- 

 merous stalked glands. Leaves large among brambles, and com- 

 posed of three or five leaflets. Leaflets whitish downy be- 

 neath, becoming greenish, the terminal one oval or rate with 

 a slenderly tapered point, doubly toothed. Flowers pink, borne on 

 a loose, wide panicle, the stalks downy and thickly furnished 

 shortly stalked glands. Fruit small. Common in the south of 

 England and wild in the neighborhood of Kew. Distinguished by 

 its thickly glanded stems and inflorescence. Nearly allied to and 

 sometimes confused with it, but more widely spread nortlr- 

 is Rubus echinatus." (TV. ./. Bean. Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the 

 British Isles, vol. 2. p. Jf53.) 



42757. Rubus wahlbebgii Arrhen. 



A species said to be midway between Rubus lindenbergii and R. 

 caesius. Native in parts of Germany. (For full technical descrip- 

 tion, see Ascherson und Graebner, Synopsis dcr llittel Eutxtpaischen 

 Flora, vol. 6, pt. 1, p. 6^6.) 



42758. Avexa ludoviciaxa Durieu. Poacea?. Oats. 

 A form apparently closely allied to Arena sativa. 



42759 and 42760. 



From Rochester, N. Y. Presented by Mr. John Dunbar. Received May 

 17, 1916, seedlings of the following: 



42759. Cobxus paucinebvis Hance. Cornaeea?. Cornel. 

 Shrub 1 to 3 meters tall, white flowers, black fruit. From western 



Hupeh and western Szechwan. (Adapted from Plantae 'Wilsoiiianae, 

 vol. 2, pt. 3, p. 577.) 



42760. Malus glaucescexs Rehder. Malacea?. Crab apple. 

 " The earliest of the American crab apples to flower, Malus glauer 



is a native of New York and of Ontario and is a treelike shrub or small 

 tree distinguished from the other northern species by the pale lower 

 surface of the leaves and the hairy covering on the outer surface :i 

 the calyx of the flower." (Arnold Arboretum, Bulletin of Information^ 

 new sei\, vol. 1, 1915.) 



42761 to 42764. Cicer arietdojm L. Fabacea?. Chick-pea. 



From Barcelona, Spain. Procured through Mr. Carl Bailey Hurst, Ameri- 

 can consul general. Received April 25, 1916. 



42761. " Variety Andaluz; superior." 



42762. " Variety Corriente, l a , Andaluz." 



42763 " Variety Andaluz, extra." 



42764. The packages were broken when received and the following 

 varieties were mixed : Type Alfarnate-superior ; type Alfarnate-exrra ; 

 variety Corriente- Andaluz. These are evidently place names only. 



