148 SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



13359 to 13556— Coutiuued. 



13553. Atriplex bhacteosa. 



From Phoenix. Ariz. Collected bv Dr. D. Griffiths. October ItS. 1903. 

 (Agrost. 1824.) 



13554. Atriplex bracteosa. 



From Tucson. Ariz. Collected by Dr. D. Griffiths. October 11. 1903. 

 (Agrost. 1825.! 



13555. Atriplex bracteosa. 



From San Eita Mountains, Arizona. Collected bv Dr. D. Griffiths. October 

 10, 1903. i Agrost. 1826.) 



13556. Atriplex coxeertifolia. 



Collected by Dr. D. Griffiths, 1903. From valley of the Little Colorado, 

 Arizona, i Agrost. 1828. ) 



1355 7. Atriplex bracteosa. 



From Santa Eita Mormtains, Ai'izona. Collected bv Dr. D. Griffiths. I\Iav 

 23, 1903. (Agrost. 1827.) 



13558. Melilotus sulcata. 



From Algeria, October, 1903. (Agrost. 1161.) 



13559. Melilotts speciosa. 



From Shao-king, Chehkiang Province, China. Eeceived Februai-y 12 1904. 

 Presented by Mr. Cyril E. Bomfield. 



" The Chinese mainly use its heavy, rank growth ior fertilizing the soil pre- 

 ^■ious to sowing rice. " " i Agrost. 1866. ) 



13560. Trifolium loxgipes. Moiintain clover. 



From Wenache Mountams. Washington, at altitude of 5.000 feet. Collected 

 by Mr. J. S. Cotton, October, 1904. (Agrost. 2108.) 



13561. Medicago sativa. Alfalfa. 

 Froni A. LeCoq & Co., Darmstadt, Germany. March 28. 1903. 

 TurJcestan. (Agrost. 2208. ) 



13562. HORDEUM BULBOSUM. 



Eeceived June 28. 1904. ( Agrost. 263. ) 



13563. Panicoi maximum. Guinea grass. 

 From Barbados, "West Indies. 



13564. Medicago sativa. Alfalfa. 

 From MoUendo. Peru. Collected bv Mr. Enrique 3Ieier in 1903. (Agrost. 



2168.1 



13565. AxDROPOGOX sorghum. Milo maize. 

 Purchased from Mr. W. W. Hutchens. Chillicothe, Tex., in the autumn of 



1904. (Agi'ost. 2090. < 



13566. Bouteloua curtipexdula. Side oats. 



Eeceived from Mr. James K. Metcalfe, Silver Citv, 2s. Mex., Februarv 26, 



1904. ' Agrost. 1889. ) ^ 



13567. Olea eurgpaea. Olive. 



From Tnnis, North Africa. Eeceived from Mr. Louis Fidelle. thru Air. T. H. 

 Kearney, April 20, 1905. 



Chemlali "This is an olive with very small fruit, very rich in oil, and a heavy 

 yielder, adapted to the driest, hottest region known in which olive culture floimshes, 

 the rainfall at Sfax. in southern Tunis, where it is the only variety grown extensively, 

 averaging about 10 inches yearly, and sometimes falling to 5 or 6 inches as the aver- 

 age for several successive years. Notwithstanding, this small rainfall, the orchards 

 are never irrigated at Sfax except during the first two or three simimers after plant- 



