UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 77 



Washington, D. C. T Issued August, 1926 



SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED BY THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN PLANT 

 INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, DURING THE PERIOD 

 FROM OCTOBER 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1923 (S. P. I. NOS. 58024 TO 58454) 



CONTENTS 



Introductory statement 1 



Inventory --- _ 3 



Index of common and scientific names - - 19 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



The introduction of hardy plant material from northeastern Asia has long been 

 one of the main objects of the Office of Foreign Plant Introduction of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



Disturbed political conditions since the outbreak of the Great War have made 

 it impracticable to send agricultural explorers into that region, else the work in 

 Siberia, Mongolia, and Turkestan, which was commenced by Frank N. Meyer 

 in 1909, would have been pursued with vigor. It therefore is with great satisfac- 

 tion that announcement is made that Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University 

 of Colorado, has sent to this office a large collection of seeds obtained by him 

 during a recent journey through parts of southeastern Siberia. These seeds, 

 which are listed in this inventory under Nos. 58153 to 58357, represent numerous 

 varieties of oats, buckwheat, barley, flax, proso, rye, timothy, wheat, soy beans, 

 corn, and other field crops, as well as a few vegetables. They have been distrib- 

 uted to specialists of the department for preliminary testing. 



H. V. Harlan, of the Office of Cereal Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, who left Washington early in 1923 to study barley and other cereal crops Ie 

 the Mediterranean region, India, and Abyssinia, sent from Spain a collection of 

 seeds, including 8 varieties of oats (Avena saliva; Nos. 58042 to 58049), 19 of 

 barley (Hordeum vulgar e -pallidum; Nos. 58050 to 58068), and 12 of wheat 

 (Triticum aestivum; Nos. 58074 to 58085). 



For use in connection with studies of the host plants of wheat rust which the 

 department is conducting, a large number of species and varieties of Berbers® 

 have been assembled from time to time. The present inventory records a 

 number of additions, including 3 from Rochester, N. Y. (Nos. 58088 to 58090), 

 34 from the Arnold Arboretum at Jamaica Plain, Mass. (Nos. 58093 to 58126), 

 3 from the Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Ireland (Nos. 58131 to 58133), and 

 8 from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, England (Nos. 58136 to 58143). 



J. F. Rock's travels in the remote Province of Yunnan, China, continue to 

 yield interesting plants. Among his introductions listed in this inventory some 

 of the most promising seem to be the white-flowered Prunus (No. 58040), the 

 wild apple from Likiang (Malus sp.; No. 58087), and nine species of Primula 

 (Nos. 58368, 58375, 58398 to 58402, 58405, and 58426). His new Castanopsis 



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