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91833. SYRINGA TOMENTELLA. Felty lilac. From Scotland. Presented by the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. A bushy shrub, about 10 feet high, with elliptic leaves 

 which are hairy beneath, and loose, long-branched spikes of fine mauve-pink flowers, 

 produced in late May and early June. It is native to western China. Plants grafted 

 on Lifiusiium amurense . For trial in the milder parts of the northern states and on 

 the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



77848. SYRINGA YUNNANENSIS . Yunnan lilac. From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Collected 

 at the Arnold Arboretum by Paul Russell, Bureau of Plant Industry. A handsome shrub 

 of open spreading growth, related to Sy ring a wilsonii . but with pale-pink flowers in 

 large panicles, produced in June. The downy leaves have a distinct red midrib, the 

 color being continued through the leaf stalk. Native to China. Plants grafted on 

 Ligustrum amurense. For trial in the milder parts of the northern states. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



104947. SYRINGA YUNNANENSIS. Yunnan lilac. From Germany. Presented by Direktion 

 des Botanischen Gartens, Berlin-Dahlem. Same description as for the preceding 

 (P. I. No. 77848). These plants are seedlings. (Supply limited.) For trial in the 

 milder parts of the northern states. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



106906. THALICTRUM MINUS. Low meadowrue . Ranunculaceae . From Russia. Presented by 

 Institute Botanikum, Askabad, U. S. S. R. An ornamental herbaceous perennial with 

 leaves more or less resembling in general appearance those of the maiden-hair fern. 

 It is useful as a rock garden plant. The species is variable and occurs in a number 

 of named varieties, which range in height from 1 to 3 feet and in color of flower from 

 yellow or greenish to purplish or red. It is native to Europe, Asia and northern 

 Africa. For trial in all except the warmest parts of the United States. (Glenn 

 Dale. Md.) 



85673. THALICTRUM ROCHEBRUNIANUM . Meadowrue. From Tokyo, Japan. Collected by P.H. 

 Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. An herb- 

 aceous perennial with handsome compound foliage and terminal heads of large lavender 

 flowers, rather more showy than those of Thalictrum dip teroca rpum. For trial from 

 the Ohio River southward, and west of the Rocky Mountains. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



105164. THYMUS BRITTANICUS. From Sweden. Presented by Prof. C. Skottsberg, Bot- 

 aniske Have, GOteborg. An upright, much-branched perennial about 6 inches high, 

 beset with long hairs throughout. The lowermost leaves are small and linear, the 

 stem leaves are elliptic and about one-half inch long. The white flowers are on long 

 stems. Native to the Balkans. For trial in the upper south and in all but the 

 coldest parts of the North. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



112116. ULMUS PUMILA PILOSA. Chinese elm. From China. Collected in Kwangsi 

 Province by A. N. Steward, University of Nanking. A medium-sized tree, differing 

 from the type (Ulmus pumila) in that the leaves and the young branchlets are hirsute 

 or roughly pubescent. For trial in all but the warmest and coldest parts of the United 

 States. (Glenn Dale. Md.) 



