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PLANT MATERIAL INTRODUCED 



92290 to 92302— Continued. 



leaflets, are green on both sides. The 

 white flowers are in small clusters, 

 and the fruit, composed of a few large 

 carpels, is covered with a blue-white 

 bloom when ripe. It is common 

 thoroughout Europe and northern Asia, 

 but is of no value for gardens. 



For previous introduction see 42639. 



92294. RUBUS CHAMAEMOEUS L. 



The cloudberry is of circumpolar 

 distribution, and the edible yellowish 

 fruits are much prized by the natives 

 of the subarctic regions. The plant is 

 creeping in habit and is frequently 

 found in peat bogs. 



For previous introduction see 55370. 



92295. Rubus glanddlosus Bellardi. 



A name for which a description is 

 not available. 



For previous introduction see 78324. 



3. Rubus idaeus L. 



European raspberry. 



The plant is a strong, upright 

 grower, everbearing in habit. The 

 fruit is large, red, and of excellent 

 quality. 



For previous introduction see 58806. 



92297. Rubus illecebbosus Focke. 



Strawberry raspberry. 



A dwarf prickly undershrub 2 to 4 

 feet high with pinnate leaves made up 

 of five to seven oblong-lanceolate dou- 

 bly serrate leaflets and small clusters 

 of large white flowers nearly 2 inches 

 across, followed by large scarlet fruits. 

 It is native to Japan. 



Rubus parviflorus Nutt. (R. 



nutkanus Mocc. ). . 



"White-flowering raspberry. 



An upright shrub 6 to 8 feet high, 

 with reniform 3-lobed to 5-lobed leaves 

 4 to 8 inches across, dense corymbs of 

 small white flowers one-fourth inch 

 wide, and red fruits more than half an 

 inch in diameter. It is native to west- 

 ern North America. 



. Rubus odoratus L. 



Flowering raspberry. 



An upright shrub up to 10 feet high, 

 with cordate leaves 4 to 12 inches 

 broad having five triangular lobes and 

 many-flowered panicles of purple fra- 

 grant flowers 2 inches across. The 

 flat red fruits are less than an inch 

 across. It is native to the eastern 

 United States. 



92300. Rubus phoenicolasius Maxim. 



Wineberry. 



For previous introduction and de- 

 scription see 91832. 



92301. Rubus saxatilis L. Dewberry. 



A dewberry producing large bright- 

 red fruits of good quality. 



For previous introduction see 68824. 



92302. Rubus xanthocarpus Bur. and 

 Franch. 



A climber, 1 to 4 feet long, sparsely 

 prickly or unarmed, which dies to the 

 ground every year. The edible fruit is 

 composed of many golden drupes. It is 

 cultivated for the fruit in Lithuania. 

 Native to central and northwestern 

 China. 



For previous introduction sep 53540. 



92303. ACTINIDIA CHINENSIS X ARGUTA. 



Dilleniaceae. 



Plants growing at the United States Plant 

 Field Station, Glenn Dale, Md. Num- 

 bered in November, 1930. 



Unfruited plants from a cross made by 

 David Fairchild in the hope of combining 

 all the better characters of each parent. 



92304 and 92305. Ficus caeica L. 

 Moraceae. Common fig. 



From France. Plants purchased from Vil- 

 morin-Andrieux & Co., Paris. Received 

 March 3, 1930. Numbered in March, 

 1931. 



92304. Blanche d' 'Argenteuil. 



92305. Dauphine. 



92306 to 92313. 



From the Union of Soviet Socialist Re- 

 publics. Seeds presented by the director 

 of the subtropical section of the Institute 

 of Applied Botany and New Cultures, 

 Sukhum, Abkhasia Republic, through A. 

 Kol, Chief, Bureau of Introduction, Len- 

 ingrad. Received March 30, 1931. 



to 92308. Canna spp. Cannaceae. 



92306. Canna angustifolia L. 



No. 41000. A canna with red flow- 

 ers, native to Brazil. 



92307. Canna edulis Ker. Edible canna, 



No. 6832. 



For previous introduction and de- 

 scription see 92248. 



92308. Canna indica L. 



No. 41009. A low slender-stemmed 

 tropical American canna, 3 to 5 feet 

 high, with green oblong leaves about 1 

 foot long and simple lax racemes of 

 small flowers. The latter bave pale- 

 green narrow petals, a reddish-yellow 

 lip, and bright-red upper staminodia. 



For previous introduction see 66714. 



92309. Corylus colurna L. Betulaceae. 



Turkish hazel. 



No. 19768. Lagodekhi. A vigorous 

 free-growing tree up to 60 feet high, 

 with stout more or less horizontal 

 branches, heart-shaped glossy green 

 leaves 5 inches long, and small bard- 

 shelled nuts inclosed in fleshy hairy green 

 involucres. 



For previous introduction see 86263. 



92310. Carica sp. Papayaceae. 

 No. 34434. 



92311. Medicago sativa L. Fabaceae. 



Alfalfa. 



No. 4483. 



92312. Medicago sativa L. 



Fabaceae. 

 Alfalfa. 



No. 4485. 



92313. Zelkova carpinifolia (Pall.) 

 Dipp. Ulmaceae. Elmleaf zelkova. 



No. 19771. A tree up to 75 feet high, 

 native to the Caucasus region, with cre- 

 nately serrate dark-green obovato leaves 

 2 to 6 inches long, resembling those of 

 the hornbeam. 



For previous introduction see 79149. 



