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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



37153. ScHizoNOTus sorbitolius (L.) Lindl. 

 (Spiraea sorbifolia L.) 



From Peking, China. Collected by INIr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer for the Department of Agriculture. Received February 17, 1914. 



"(No. 1046. December 1, 1913.) A variety of the ordinary Sorbus-leaved 

 Spiraea, which is very impartial to adverse conditions. See description of No. 

 1PS6a [S. P. I. No. 36799] for further details." (Meyer.) 



"A shrub 3 to 6 feet high, which suckers freely ; stems erect, very pithy, 

 varying from nearly smooth to downy. Leaves S to 12 inches long, composed 

 of 13 to 25 leaflets, which are lanceolate, 2 to 3i inches long, one-half to 1 

 inch wide; sharply and conspicuously double toothed, green on both sides; 

 usually quite smooth above and the same beneath. Flowers one-third of an 

 inch across, white, produced during July and August in a stiff, erect raceme 

 6 to 10 inches high ; flower stalks downy and glandular ; ovaries smooth or 

 nearly so. 



" Native of northern Asia from the Ural Mountains to Japan ; introduced in 

 1759. It is distinguished from its near allies Spiraea lindleyana and S. aitchir 

 soni by its comparatively dwarf, stiff habit, and narrower, stiffer flower 

 panicles. Grown in rich soil it makes a handsome shrub." (TF. J. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. o^S, under Spiraea sorbifolia.) 



Cuttings. 



37154 to 37167. 



From Tulun, Russia. Presented by Mr. Victor Pissareff, Tulun Experiment 

 Field. Received February 11, 1914. 

 Quoted notes by Mr. Pissareff. 



37154. Teiticu:m: aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



" Common summer wheat of the country. Province Irkutsk, latitude 

 52° 16' ; Malta country, 1913." 



37155. Secale ceeeale L. Rye. 

 "Native summer rye. Province of Yakutsk, latitude 62° 1' N." 



37156. Hoedeum vulgaee L. Barley. 

 " Summer barley. Province of Yakutsk, latitude 62° 1' N." 



37157. Teiticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



" Summer wheat from native wheat. Somewhat frozen, 1913." 



37158. Teiticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



" Summer wheat Amerikanka. Province Yakutsk, latitude 62° 1' N." 

 37150. Teiticum dueum Desf. Wheat. 



" Summer macaroni wheat. Atbasar Agricultural School, Province of 

 Akmolinsk, crop of 1912." 



37160. Teiticum aestivum L. Wheat. 

 (Triticum vulgare Vill.) 



" Winter wheat Sandomyrka, Province of Tomsk, Siberia." 



37161. Tbifolium peatense L. Red clover. 

 " Wild red clover collected at Tulun Experiment Field, Province of 



Irkutsk, 1913." 



