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Robert S. Kirby 



TABLE 1 (concluded) 





Name of grass * 



Relative number of 



Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf 



Sporobolus interruptus Vasey 



Stipa capillata L 



lepida Hitchc 



pennata L 



spartea Trin 



viridula Trin 



Triodid flava (L.) Hitchc 



Triticum aegilopoides Bal. (wild small spelt) 

 compactum Host (club wheats) 

 dicoccoides Korn. (wild emmer) . . . 



dicoccum Schr. (emmer) 



durum Desf. (durum wheats) 



monococcum L. Einkorn 



polonicum L. (Polish wheat) 



spelta L. (large spelt) 



turgidum L. (poulard wheats) 



vulgare Vill. (common wheats) 

 Zea mays L. (field corn) 



* 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=Anonymous (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) 



writer (Kirby, 1922). The method used was essentially the same, except 

 that sterilized soil was used throughout and the inoculum consisted of 

 many more pure-culture isolations. These tests were started on January 

 3 and 4, 1922, and continued for a period of one year. 



Six species of grasses- — Anthoxanthum odoratum, Bromus hordeaceus, 

 Bromus villosus, Holms lanatus, Poa compressa, and Poa pratensis — which 



