Descriptive List 



Numbers preceding plant names are P. I. numbers and, in 

 correspondence concerning any plant, both number and name always 



must be given. 



Nurserymen please see statement at end of paragraph 3 of introductory 

 note, concerning items marked with an asterisk (*) . 



97942. ABIES HOLOPHYLLA. Needle fir. From Japan. Presented by M. Tozawa, Director, 

 Forest Experiment Station, Keijo, Chosen. A tall handsome fir, eventually 100 feet 

 or more high. With stout spreading or ascending branches and dark-green needles, 

 radially arranged on the branchlets. The bark of the young trees is light gray. 

 (Supply very limited.) For trial in the milder parts of the Northern States. (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



90650. ABIES NEPHROLEPIS . Fir. From Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett and 

 W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers. Bureau of Plant Industry. A Siberian conifer up 

 to 100 feet high, of narrow pyramidal habit, resembling the Siberian fir, Abies 

 sibirica, but with rough bark, pubescent branchlets, dark-green leaves about 1 inch 

 long, and smaller cones. (Supply limited.) For trial in the colder parts of the 

 United States. (Glenn Dale. Md.) 



90837. ACACIA CRASSIUSCULA. (Mimosaceae . ) Thicket acacia. From New South Wales, 

 Australia. Presented by the Director, Botanic Gardens, Sydney. An attractive spread- 

 ing shrub, up to 10 feet high, with ridged branchlets, very numerous linear falcate 

 1-nerved phyllodes 3 to 6 inches long, and short racemes of small, dense, globular, 

 yellow flower heads. Mature seeds planted immediately germinate in 3 weeks. Native 

 to Tasmania. For trial in southern California and the warmer parts of the Gulf 

 region. (Chico, Calif.) 



122000. ACACIA CYANOPHYLLA . Araleun Wattle. From South Australia. Presented by 

 J. Howard Johnson, St. Peters. A handsome, rapidly growing western Australian shrub 

 or small tree up to 18 feet in height, with drooping branches and glabrous, shiny- 

 green, lanceolate phyllodia. The numerous flower heads are in groups of 3 to 5, in 

 short racemes, making a fine display. It seems satisfactory for pot culture in the 

 lathhouse at Chico, California. For trial as a conservatory plant or in the warmer 

 parts of the Southwest and in the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



111228. ACACIA DENTINENS . From South Africa. Presented by the McGregor Museum, 

 Kimberley. Z wart haak . An attractive shrub or small tree, armed with very short 

 recurved prickles along the branches. The compound leaves have 3 pairs of pinnae, 

 each composed of one pair of obliquely ovate leaflets. The small yellow flowers are 

 in loose, sub-globose heads. For trial in the Gulf region and southern California. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



116455. ACACIA MODESTA . From India. Collected at Saharanpur Gardens, United 

 Provinces, by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A medium-sized tree with 

 glabrous gray branches and dark-brown polished prickles, native to the foothills of 



