UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 103 



Washington, D. C. T Issued March, 1932 



PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED BY THE DIVISION OF FOREIGN 

 PLANT INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, APRIL 1 

 TO JUNE 30, 1930 (Nos. 86756-88432) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 49 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



This present inventory of plant material received between April 1 and June 

 30, 1930 (Nos. 86756-88432), is preeminently a forage-crop and cereal inventory, 



The agricultural explorers, P. H. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, were in the Orient 

 during this period and sent in 1,188 introductions, including over 500 strains 

 of soybeans. They found that millet (Chaetochloa italica, Nos. 87645-87702) 

 and Japanese millet (Echinochloa crusgalli edulis, Nos. 87703-87718) are much 

 used by the Chinese, as well as buckwheat, hemp, rye, and barley. Wheat 

 and corn are also important crops in China, but oats are not much grown. 

 Samples of all these cereals have been sent in. Peas, cowpeas, and all kinds of 

 beans are used for food in northern China as rice is used in Japan. Three 

 Lespedezas (Nos. 88315-8831T) are useful both as forage and as ornamentals. 

 Native varieties of cotton tGossypium hirsutum, Nos. 87736 and 87737, and 

 O. nanking, Nos. 87738-87742) were collected by them in Chosen. 



For the help of specialists ! , who are working to improve rice (Oryza sativa) 

 in this country there were received through F. A. McClure 13 strains (Nos. 

 87124-87137) from C. H. Heh, head of the Department of Agronomy, College of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, Nanking, China, and 22 strains (Nos. 8740&-87430) 

 from Koo Kwai Fan, in charge of farm crops, Lingnan University, Canton, 

 China; also two strains (Nos. 87478 and 87479) from Rev. William Harris, 

 The Prince Royal's College, Chiengmai, Siam, and 11 strains (Nos. 88331-88342) 

 from S. G. Sharngapani, Economic Botanist of the Government of Bengal, 

 Dacca, Bengal, India, also 145 strains (Nos. 87107-87113, 87201-87280, 87845- 

 87905) sent in by the department explorers, Messrs. Dorsett and Morse. 



H. L. Westover during this time was traveling through Europe in search of 

 alfalfas and sent in 21 strains (Medicaffo satira, Nos. 86767-86776, 86786 and 

 86787, 87390-87392, 87483-87488), besides seeds of melons, wheat, and corn. 



H. N. Vinall sent from Porto Rico and Cuba cover and forage crops (Nos. 

 87462-87465, 88185-88188) to be tested in this country. 



For the use of department specialists working to improve the potato (Solatium 

 tuberosum), tubers were received from Ayr, Scotland (Nos. 87470-87473, 87481 

 and 87482), from the Plant Breeding Station, Moscow, Union of Socialistic 

 Soviet Republics (Nos. 88189-88193), and from Peru (Nos. 86777-86781). 

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