Robert S. Kirby 



TABLE 1 (continued) 



Name of grass 



Relative number of 

 perithecia on plant f 



In greenhouse 

 tests 



In the 

 field 



Presence of 

 perithecia 

 previously 

 recorded J 





Elymus (continued): 



virginicus L 



Eragrostis lugens Nees 



Festuca bromoides L 



elatior L 



heterophylla (Lam.) Hack. . . 



megalura Nutt 



octoflora Walt 



ovina L 



ovina tenuifolia (Sibth.) Sm. 



pratensis Huds 



rubra L 



Gastridium lendigerum (L.) Gaud . . 



Glyceria grandis Wats 



nervata (Willd.) Trin 



Holcus lanatus L 



Hordeum distichon L 



jubatum L 



murinum L 



nodosum L 



pusillum Nutt 



secalinum Schreb 



spontaneum C. Koch 



vulgare L. (barley) 



Hystrix patula Moench 



Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers 



Lolium multiflorum Lam 



perenne L 



Many. 

 None. 

 None. 

 Few. . 

 None. 

 None. 



None. . . . 

 None. . . . 

 None. . . . 

 None. . . . 



Few 



None. . . . 

 None. . . . 



Few 



Moderate. 



Many 



Few 



Many .... 

 None. . . . 



Many 



Many .... 



Many 



Many. . . . 

 Many .... 

 None. . . . 

 None. . . . 



(14) 



(14)"(7) 



• • {7) ■ ■ 



(14) 

 (8) 



(7) 



None . 



(9) 

 (14) 



* All the grasses in this test were grown from seed obtained from the following sources: Dr. E. B. 

 Mains, Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana; Professor A. H. Larson, Seed Laboratory, University of 

 Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota; Berkeley, California, grass gardens of the Cereal Office of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. 



t Few=less than ten perithecia per culm. 



Moderate=from ten to forty perithecia per culm. 



Many=more than forty perithecia per culm. 

 J References to literature in last column: 



l=Saccardo (1875) 



2=Waters (1920a) 



3=Brittlebank (1920) 



4=Berkeley and Broome (1861) 



5=Anonvmous (1919) 



6=McAlpine (1904) 



7=Rosen and Elliott (1923) 



8=Anonymous (1907) 



9=Hori (1901) 

 10=Peglion (1898) 

 ll=Stakman (1922) 

 12=Pridham (1919) 

 13=Anonymous (1922a) 

 14=Kirby (1922) 



