JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1913. 



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35976 and 35977. Asparagus spp. . Asparagus. 



From Smyrna, Turkey. Presented by Mr. M. E. Lambichi. Received Septem- 

 ber 22, 1913. 



35976. "Called Acutifolins.'' (Lambichi.) 



35977. "Nicknamed in Smyrna -4 wowmac. " (Lambichi.) 



35978 to 36000. 



Collected by Mr. W. F. Wight, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Quoted notes 

 by Mr. Wight, except as indicated. 



35978. Chenopodium quinoa Willd. Quinoa. 



"From La Paz. Bolivia. (No. 390.)" 



35979. PsiDiuM sp. Guava. 

 "From Panguipulli, Chile. (No. 116, February 24, 1913.) A shrub 3 to 8 



feet high, very compact in habit, and with rather glossy foliage; the flowers are 

 white; fruits a half inch or more in diameter. This species may possibly serve 

 as a stock for the strawberry guava. " 



35980 to 35982. Triticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 ( Triticum vulgar e Vill.) 



35980. ''From Chile. (No. 180.) Wheat said to be an old Spanish 

 variety, called Candiel. From Quilan, west coast of Chiloe Island." 



35981 . " (No. 230.) Cuyo. Said to have been brought by the first Spanish 

 colonists. From Quilan, west coast of Chiloe Island. " 



35982. ''(No. 231.) This has been grown for nine years in Chiloe. Previ- 

 ously brought from Osorno, Chile, and originally from Germany." 



35983. Tropaeolum tuberosum Ruiz and Pavon. 



"(No. 111.) Found between Petnifquen and Villarica, Chile. A vine Avith 

 rather small digitate leaves and very handsome red flowers, resembling nas- 

 turtiums somewhat, though smaller. This is one of the most attractive small 

 glimbers I have seen. " 



36984 and 35985. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Bean. 



"From Panguipulli, Chile. No names were known for the beans at this 

 place, but most of them were different from those found farther north." 



36984. "(No. 92.)" 35985. "(No. 95.)" 



35986. Drimys winteri Forster. Canelo. 



"From Panguipulli, Chile. (No. 96.) A tree with rather broad leaves, and 

 growing perhaps 30 feet high. It is one of the Yery few native trees that have 

 been grown in Chilean nurseries, and this to a very limited extent. Flowers 

 were not seen." 



Laura, a shrub, which gi'ows usually about 5 meters high and is characterized 

 by small, thick green leaves, green bark, and the green berries which it bears 

 in February and March in large clusters. ' ' ( Willis, Northern Patagonia, p. 362.) 



"A handsome evergreen shrub, rather tender, and really satisfactory only in 

 the milder parts of the kingdom: young shoots smooth, often tinged with red. 

 Leaves lanceolate, 5 to 10 inches long, smooth, l^right, rather pale green, very 

 aromatic when crushed. Flowers borne in a cluster of loose umbels, from 

 four to seven in each umbel: they are ivory white, fragrant, and about \\ inches 

 across: petals linear, pointed, spreading. 



