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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



38302 to 38326— Continued. 



38305 and 38306. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38307. Hordeum vulgare L. mixed with H. distichon nutans Schubl. 

 38308 to 38310. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38311. Hordeum vulgare himalayense Rittig. 



38312. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38313. Hordeum vulgare leiorrhynchum Koernicke. 



Received as H. vulgare leiorrhynchum nekludoioi R, Regel, described 

 in full in Regel's Glattgrannige Gersten, p. 69-71, 1909. 



38314. Hordeum vulgare nigrum (Willd.) Beaven. 



Received as H. vulgare nigrum daghestanicum R. Regel, described in 

 Regel, Flaxberger, and Malzeff, The Most Important Forms of Wheat 

 Barleys, etc. (Russian), p. 31, 1910. 



38315. Hordeum vulgare pallidum Seringa. 



Received as H. vulgare pallidum hibernaculum R. Regel, op. cit., p. 31. 



38316. Hordeum vulgare L. 



Received as H. distichum persicum eriwanense R. Regel, Glattgrannige 

 Gersten, p. 75-76, 1909. 



38317. Hordeum distichon erectum Schubl. 

 38318 and 38319. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38320. Hordeum distichon erectum Schubl. 



38321. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38322. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38323. Hordeum distichon nutans Schubl. 



38324. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38325. Hordeum vulgare nigrum (Willd.) Beaven. 



38326. Hordeum vulgare L. 



38327. Ortza sativa L. Poacese. Kice. 

 From Dakhleh Oasis, western Egypt. Purchased from Sheik Abu Bakr, 

 through contract made by Prof. S. C. Mason, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, on his visit to the oasis in October, 1912. Received May 

 20, 1914. 



" This rice is a variety grown in the Oases of Khargeh and Dakhleh and 

 there regarded as quite distinct from the so-called valley rice which is used 

 in reclaiming the salty lands in the delta of Lower Egypt. 



" Mr. Wright, manager of the Corporation of Western Egypt, at Khargeh, 

 and Sheik Abu Bakr, the chief man of Dakhleh Oasis, both especially recom- 

 mended this rice as being a valuable crop for reclaiming salty lands. They 

 stated that it can be grown successfully on land quite too strong for barley. 



" My idea in bringing this in was not that it would be of sufficient 

 importance to use as a main crop on high-priced irrigated lands, but that it 

 should be given a test as a useful crop in reclaiming lands at present too 

 salty for the growing of alfalfa and barley. Considerable areas of land of 

 this character in the Coachella Valley are accessible to a good flow of artesian 

 water. 



" In Dakhleh the land is bordered with quite high ridges and the water 

 kept almost continuously on the rice, it being essential, of course, that there 

 be some wash or lower tract into which the surplus water can be diverted. 

 My idea is that it is this excess of water that really does the chief 



