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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



37686 to 37691— Continued. 



lous than either F. canadensis or F. virginiana. (Adapted from 

 Mueller, Select Extra-Tropical Plants and Britton and Brown, Flora 

 of the Northern States and Canada.) 



37691. Fragaria viridis Duchesne. 

 {Fragaria coUina Ehrh.) 

 "This Fragaria, though not identical with F. vesca, resembles it 

 very closely and may be regarded as a mere variety of that European 

 species. Under the name of ' hill strawberry ' it occurs in various 

 parts of Europe and is cultivated to some extent in Norway as far 

 north as latitude 67° 56'. The fruit of this species has a somewhat 

 musky odor." {Mueller, Select Extra-Tropical Plants.) 



37692 to 37695. Colocasia esctjlenta (L.) Schott. Araceae. 



Taro. 



From Waimea, island of Kauai, Hawaii. Collected August 16, 1913, by 

 Mr. R. A. Young, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Tubers of the fol- 

 lowing; quoted notes by Mr. Young. 



37692. " Kumu. A rare variety of the Hawaiian taro, having brilliant 

 red petioles. The name Kumu is said to have been given because of the 

 similarity of color to that of the Hawaiian fish of the same name. The 

 variety is unimportant commercially. There are others of this class, 

 varying from this one in certain details." 



37693. "Apuivai ulaula. A commercial variety of the Hawaiian taro, 

 the leaf blades of which curl upward, forming a cuplike receptacle 

 which holds water. The name Apuwai signifies this character of the 

 leaf." 



37694. " Lau loa. Leaf blade long, petiolar spot purple ; laminar sinus 

 closed about one-fourth of distance; petiole dark green below, shadetl 

 with maroon, shading into solid dark maroon above the sinus, except 

 on the outer side, where it becomes light green ; petiolar sinus wings 

 margined with red." 



37695. " Maka opio. A commercial variety grown on the island of 

 Kauai. Leaf characters similar to the preceding [S. P. I. No. 37694]." 



37696 and 37697. Okyza sativa L. Poacese. Rice. 



From Barcelona, Spain. Presented by Mr. Carl Bailey Hurst, American 

 consul general. Received March 25, 1914. 



" The principal region where rice is grown on an extensive scale in this 

 consular district is in the Province of Tarragona, on the right bank of the 

 Ebro River, and in the tract commonly known as 'Amposta.' The total pro- 

 duction in the district named amounted to 29,750 long tons during the year 

 1913, cultivated over an area of 8,500 hectares (21,004 acres), giving an aver- 

 age production of 3i tons per hectare (2.47 acres). In the Province of Gerona 

 and in the Balearic Islands rice is also cultivated, but not in quantities of 

 commercial importance. Here the production in 1913 was 8.43 and 7.59 tons, 

 respectively. 



" The Province of Valencia is the most important rice-growing center In 

 Spain, the average annual crop amounting to some 200,000 long tons. Rice 

 as a popular food enters into the diet of the people to such an extent that the 



