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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



35162 to 35171— Continued. 



spikes would receive some protection. The flowering spikes of E. rohustus are 

 among the first to appear, and they grow very quickly when once started ; hence, 

 it is not improbable that they may suffer from late frosts in the open border. 

 For such open spaces the variety eluesianus is the better plant — it is later in 

 pushing spikes, and slower in developing its spikes than E. rohustus. " {G. B. 

 Mallett, in Gardeners' Chronicle, March 4, 1905.) 



Distribution. — ^An herbaceous perennial with rose-colored flowers, found on 

 the slopes of the Ala Tau Mountains at an elevation of 10,000 feet, in northern 

 Turkestan. 



35166. Eremurus turkestanicus Kegel. 



"It is not handsome; it has a loose spike with white flowers (greenish on the 

 outside), short purple-black filaments, long red anthers; the pedicels are erect 

 and very stout at the top; the capsule is glabrous, p>Tiform; the seeds gray, 

 and larger than the brown seeds of E. altaicus.'' {Madam Olga Fedtschenko, 

 in Gardeners' Chronicle, June 10, 1905.) 



See S. P. I. No. 35130 for previous introduction. 



35167. Fagopyrxjm tataricum (L.) Gaertn. Buckwheat. 

 36168. Iris spuria L. Iris. 



Forma alhiflora. 



No plant under this name is listed in W. R. Dykes' s folio monograph, The 

 Genus Iris, 1913, which see for discussion of the spuria question. 



35169. Iris SPURIA DESERTORUM Gawl. Iris. 

 "This is one of the most vigorous of all the forms of 7m spuria. The plants 



quickly grow into close masses of foliage from which emerge numerous stems. 

 The indi^ddual flowers are small, but they are produced so freely that the 

 whole effect is ornamental. The cultivation is extremely easy, for the plants 

 seem to succeed in any soil. Moreover, the flowers are self -fertilizing and the 

 seeds are produced in abundance. " ( W. R. Dykes, The Genv^ Iris, p. 62, 1913.) 



35170. Iris spuria X monnieri. Iris. 

 ' ' The supposition that I. monnieri is only a foiTu of I. spuria is supported by 



the fact that it is readily fertile to the pollen of the latter. The plants thus 

 raised by Foster are known as I. monspur and are merely fine forms of I. spuria 

 with flowers of some shade of blue-purple. " {W. R. Dykes, op. cit., p. 64-) 



"The culture of all the members of the spuria group is very simple. They 

 will grow in almost any soil from the heaviest clay to the lightest sand, but 

 seem to prefer a sunny position in a rather stiff loam well enriched with humus. 

 When growth becomes active in the spring, the plants absorb a large amount of 

 water, but seem to flower all the better the following year if the rhizomes are 

 well roasted by the sun in the late summer after the flowering season. The 

 seeds germinate fairly readily, but the growth of the young plants is compara- 

 tively slow, and though some may flower in their season (in two years, that is, 

 from the time the seed germinated) yet the majority of them grow on for at 

 least another year before the flowers appear," {W. R. Dykes, op. cit., p. 58.) 



35171. Larix kurtlensis Mayr. Kurile larch. 

 "A tree up to 70 feet high, forming a stout trunk 2 to 2^ feet in diameter; 



young shoots very downy and dark brown, the down persisting the second 

 season. Leaves one-half to 1 inch long, rounded at the end, very broad in 

 proportion to their length, of a glaucous green, and with two conspicuous 

 fitomatic bands beneath. Cones about three-fourths inch long, oval-cylindrical, 

 the scales with thin, slightly beveled, not reflexed, margins indented about 



