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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



81761 to 81786— Continued. 



81769. No. 1465. Selection No. 502. 

 A Chinese variety from Manchuria, 

 with small glossy black seeds and 

 purple flowers. 



81770. No. 1468. Selection No. 503. 

 A Chinese variety from Manchuria 

 with small glossy brown seeds and 

 purple flowers. 



81771. No, 1467. Selection 504. A 

 Chinese variety from Manchuria 

 with small glossy brown seeds and 

 purple flowers. 



81772. No. 146S. Selection 505. A 

 Chinese variety from Manchuria 

 with small dull-black seeds and 



white flowers. 



81773, No. 14S4. From a farmer's field 

 near Kawazoe. October 12. 1929. 

 Shirosawa ^ white podi. An early 

 yellow-seeded variety said to have been 

 grown in this section for many years. 



81774, No. 14S5. From a farmer's field 

 near Kawazoe. October 12. 1929. 

 An early, gray, pubescent variety said 

 to be native and grown in this section 

 for many years. The seeds are straw 

 yellow with a brown hiium. 



81775, No. 1486. From the Akita Pre- 

 fecture Horse Breeding Station, near 

 Wada. October 12. 1929. A mixture 

 of yellow-seeded varieties used for 

 horse feed. 



81776 to 817S6. From the Hokushu Ex- 

 periment Station. Kotoni. October 7. 

 1929. 



81776, No. 149 v Akazava ired podi. 

 Station No. VI. 275 B." Seeds straw 

 yellow with a dark-brown hilum. 



81777. No. 1499. Kurozaya (black 

 podi. 



8177S, No. 1500. Chit8ei Jcura dairyu 

 (middle season). Tokachi Branch 

 Station No. 3. Seeds medium sized 

 and black. 



81779. No. 1507. Kenashi tlaizu. A 



yellow-seeded variety developed by 

 the station. It is resistant to the 



pod borer moth, one of the worst in- 

 sect pests in Hokushu. 



81780. No. 150S. Tsurunoho (young 

 crane). Large yellow seeds with a 

 pale hilum. 



81781. No. 1509. Oyachi ichigo (Oya- 

 chi No. 1). A selection from Oya- 

 chi. one of the high-yielding varie- 

 ties. The yellow seeds are medium 

 sized with a deep-brown hilum. 



81782. No. 1510. Oyachi. The Oya- 

 chi is quite generally grown in Ho- 

 kushu and is a heavy yielding strain. 

 but is very subject to attack by the 

 pod borer' moth. The yellow, me- 

 dium-sized seeds have a brown 

 hilum. 



81783. No. 1511. Gin claim ^silver 

 soybean). Station No. Y. 35 B. 



Yellow, medium-sized seeds with a 

 light-brown hilum. 



S17S4. No. 1512. Shiro shoyu (small 

 white » . Yellow, medium-small seeds 



with a light-brown hilum. 



81785, No. 1513. : o*o (mid- 



dle season smooth). Yellow, 



small seeds with a brown hilum. It 

 is quite resistant to y the 



pod borer moth. 



81761 to 81786 — Continued. 



81786. No. 1514. Euro daizu (black 

 soybean). Small round black seeds 

 with green cotyledons. 



81787 to 81807. 



From Japan. Seeds collected by P. H. 

 Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural 

 explorers, Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 Received in October and November, 1929. 



81787. Stewartia pseudo-camellia Max- 

 im. Theaceae. Japanese stewartia. 



No. 1414. From the Botanic Garden, 

 Hokushu Imperial University, Sapporo, 

 October 2. 1929. A handsome freer na- 

 tive to Japan. 50 feet high, with erect 

 branches and red bark. The thickish 

 obovate-lanceolate leaves are bright 

 green, and the large white flowers are 

 borne in summer. 



For previous introduction see No. 

 77S66. 



81788. Trifolium pratexse L. Faba- 

 eeae. Red clover. 



No. 1457. From a field near Kawazoe, 

 Akita Prefecture, October 12, 1929. 



81789. Teifolium repexs L. Fabaceae. 

 White clover. 



No. 1379. From plants growing in 

 waste places near the seashore in the 

 vicinity of Shiraoi. an Ainu village. 

 southern Hokushu. September 29, 1929'. 

 A variety with large white flowers. 



81790 to 81793. Tsiticum aestivum L. 

 \T. vulpare Till. I . Poaceae. 



Common wheat. 



From the Hokushu Experiment Station, 

 Kotoni, October 7, 1929. 



81790, No. 1526. Sapporo haru Jcomu- 

 gi ichigo. (Sapporo spring No. 1.) 

 A spring wheat developed by the 

 Kotoni station. 



81791, No. 1527. Sapporo haru komu- 

 gi- jugo (Sapporo spring No. 10). 



81792, No. 152S. Marching Xo. S. A 

 fail wheat developed by the Kotoni 

 station. 



81793, No. 1529. Akagcnca- AJ;o Ichigo 

 jkin red No. 1). 



A fall variety developed by the 

 Kotoni station. 



81794 to 81797. Yaccixium spp. Yaccini- 

 aceae. 



81794 and 81795. Yaccixium ciliaium 

 Thunb. 



81794. No. 1419. From the Botanic 

 Garden. Hokushu Imperial Uni- 

 versity. Sapporo, October 2. 1929. 

 An upright branching deciduous 

 shrub up to 15 feet high, with 

 pubescent branchlets and ovate 

 ciliolate-margined leaves, 2 to 4 

 inches long, which turn bright 

 crimson in the autumn. The nod- 

 ding bell-shaped reddish flowers 

 are in short racemes and are fol- 

 lowed by edible black berries a 

 quarter of an inch in diameter. 

 Native to Japan and Chosen. 



81795. No. 1452. From Chiaki Park, 

 Akita. October 11. 1929. A shrub 

 about 12 feet high with racemes 



■r blac ' - 



same variety as that ob- 

 tained from the Botanic Garden at 

 Sapporo [No. S1794], but the va- 



