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2477. FORSYTHIA VIRIDISSIMA KOREANA.* From Chosen. Presented by the Director, 
Forest Experiment Station, Keijo. An upright shrub, under 10 feet high, with more 
or less spreading branches. The leaves are 2 to 5 inches long, elliptic-ovate to 
oblong-lanceolate, broadest -telow the middle, and usually serrate beyond the middle 
but sometimes entire. The flowers are bright yellow, with the calyx more than half 
the length of the corolla tube. This shrub is said to be about as showy as Forsythia 
suspensa. For trial in all except the coldest parts of the northern states, in the 
upper South, and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
104143. FORSYTHIA VIRIDISSIMA KOREANA.* From Japan. Received from Dr. T. Kaburaki, 
Keijo, Chosen. Description same as for jhe preceding (P. I. No. 82477). (Glenn 
Dale, Md.) 
99230. GAULTHERIA SP. Ericaceae. From Kweichow Province, China. Presented by 
Albert N. Steward, Department of Botany, College of Agriculture, University of 
Nanking, Nanking. Found growing at 2,80) feet altitude. A deciduous shrub about 
7 feet tall with ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves and black fruits. The leaves 
are aromatic when crushed. In foliage and stem characters the plant is much like 
Gaultheria cumingiana. Fcr trial in the South and the milder parts of the northern 
states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
9°662. . GAULTHERIA PYROLOIDES. From India. Presented by G. Ghose & Co., Town-—end, 
Darjeeling. A low evergreen shrub less than a foot high with narrow-elliptic leaves 
1 to 2 inches long and large blue-black fruits. Native to the Himalayas. For 
trial in the Gulf region and the milder parts of the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, 
Md.) 
10C£8). GLAUCOTHEA ARMATA. Blue palm. From Baja California, Mexico. Obtained 
from Howard E. Gates, Anaheim, Calif. A stout fan-palm with a robust trunk up to 
8 feet in diameter and 20 feet high, crowned ky numerous glaucous—blue leaves, nearly 
circular in outline and deeply cut into many segments. The flowers are dull purple. 
For trial in central and southern Florida and southern California. (Glenn Dale, 
Md, ) 
1C&666. GLYCYRRHIZA ECHINATA. Received from Bodnant Gardens, North Wales. Origi- 
nally collected in China. An herdaceous leguminous perennial with tall upright 
stems and compound leaves having 5 — 6 pairs of elliptic leaflets. The small bluish 
flowers are in compact spherical heads. For trial in the upper South and the milder 
parts of the northern states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
103009. HEFE VENUSTULA.* Scrophulariaceae. From New Zealand. Presented by A. 
Wilkinson, Tauranga. A small compact shrub 6 to 9 inches high, native to New 
Zealand. The obklong-ovate leathery leaves, less than 1 inch long, are close-set 
on the branches and the small white flowers are in terminal much~branched racemes. 
Fer trial in the southern states and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 
82049, HELENIUM AUTUMNALE.* Sneezeweed. From Dedemsvaart, Netherlands. Purchased 
from B. Ruys, Royal Moerheim Nurseries. Variety Autumn Sunshine, An herbaceous 
pe-ennial 2 to 24 feet high, much branched but compact in habit, the branches winged 
and the leaves light green. The numerous pure yellow flower heads, terminal on the 
branchlets, appear during August and continue through September. Of value as a cut 
flcower. For trial throughout the United States except ih the warmest localities. 
(Glenn Dale, Md.) 
