UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



INVENTORY No. 80 



Washington, D. C. ▼ Issued April, 1927 



SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED BY THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN PLANT 

 INTRODUCTION, BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, DURING THE PERIOD 

 FROM JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1924 (S. P. I. NOS. 60957 TO 61737) 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introductory statement : 1 



Inventory 3 



Index of common and scientific names 31 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT 



The outstanding feature of the introductions included in this inventory is 

 the relatively large proportion of forage plants, cereals, and vegetables con- 

 tributed almost entirely by representatives of the bureau traveling abroad 

 or by foreign agricultural institutions with which the Office of Foreign Plant 

 Introduction has contacts. 



H. L. Westover, of the Office of Forage Crops, made a trip to Argentina and 

 Chile with the particular object of studying the culture of alfalfa. Extensive 

 collections of plant material were made in those countries by Mr. Westover, 

 not only of local strains of alfalfa but also of cereals, native grasses, and 

 leguminous forage plants. 



H. L. Shantz, of the Office of Plant Geography and Physiology, whose trip 

 to Africa for the African Educational Commission was mentioned in the pre- 

 ceding inventory, continued his travels in that continent during this period, 

 and sent in several more shipments of plant material which included native 

 forage plants, sorghums, and other cereals and a considerable number of 

 shrubby and herbaceous ornamentals. 



While carrying on agricultural explorations in Yunnan, southwestern China, 

 for the National Geographic Society, J. F. Rock, a collaborator of this office, 

 made a special collection of native strains of beans and peas (Nos. 61018 to 

 61038). This collection should prove of special interest to vegetable breeders. 

 A similarly interesting collection of local varieties of beans was received from 

 George H. Winn, of Taiku, Chosen (Nos. 61039; to 61054). 



Further shipments of local strains of crop plants were received from Dr. N. 

 I. Vavilov, Director of the Bureau of Applied Botany and Plant Breeding, 

 Leningrad, Russia. These included a series of wheats (Triticum spp., Nos. 

 61101 to 61198), a series of barleys (Hordeum spp., Nos. 61506 to 61592), and a 

 small series of cottons (Gossypium spp., Nos. 61696 to 61714). Many of these 

 strains originated in parts of Russia where climatic conditions are not favor- 

 able for growing crops, so that this material should prove unusually valuable 

 for extending the range in this country of the crops represented. These same 

 observations might also apply to additional shipments of plant material received 

 from Prof. K. Murashinsky, of the Siberian Agricultural Academy, Omsk, 

 Siberia. Grasses and forage plants constitute the greater part of Professor 

 Murashinsky's contributions. For the benefit of forage-crop specialists of the 



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