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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



branches thicker, more rigid, and the small twigs thicker and shorter and de- 

 cidedly less willowy than in the ordinary type. The leaves were broader than 

 usual, less acuminate, and with coarser marginal serrations. The fruits were 

 unusually large with flesh unusually thick and soft and of a more downy ap- 

 pearance than those of the usual t.vpe." (Mason.) 



49410. Kheum sp. Pol3'gonace8e. Rhubarb. 



From Tatsienlu, Szechwan, China. Seeds presented by Dr. C. Glass 

 Davitt, College of Yale in China, Changsha, China. Received February 

 21, 1920. 



" Tibetan wild rhubarb seed. Tatsienlu. West China. October, 1919." 

 (Davitt.) 



Obtained for breeding experiments. 



49411. Cynodon intekmedius Bang-, and Tad. Poacese. Grass. 



From Coimbatore, Madras, India. Seeds presented by C. Tadulingam, 

 assistant lecturing botanist. Agricultural College, through C. V. Piper, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. Received February 21, 1920. 

 A widely creeping perennial grass, rooting at the nodes ; leafy, with slender 

 erect or ascending flowering branches, which vary in length from 12 to 18 

 inches. The leaf blades are linear, flat, and up to 7 inches in length. This 

 grass is a native of the Nilgiri Hills, southwestern India. It Is intermediate 

 between Cynodon dactylon and C. harberi, differing from the former principally 

 in not having underground stems and from the latter in being more extensively 

 creeping and with longer and more slender branches. (Adapted from Journal 

 of the Bombay Natural History Society., vol. 26, p. 304.) 



49412 to 49431. Solanum titberosuim L. Solanacese. Potato. 

 From Edinburgh, Scotland. Tubers presented by the secretary, Board 

 of Agriculture. Received February 25, 1920. 

 The following varieties are introduced for experiments being carried on 

 by the Bureau of Plant Industrj^ to obtain varieties resistant to the wart 

 disease. 



49412. America. 49422. Lochar. 



49413. Arra/n Comrade. 49423. Majestic. 



49414. Arran Victory. ' 49424. Mauve Queen. 



49415. The Bishop. 49425. May Queen. 



49416. Dargill Early. 49426. Midlothian Early. 



49417. The Duchess. 49427. Nithscnle. 



49418. Edsell Blue. 49428. Resistant Snoivdrop. 



49419. Epicure. 49429. Rhoderick Dhu. 



49420. Immune Ashleaf. 49430. Sharpens Express. 



49421. Irish Queen. 49431. Tinwald Perfection. 

 49433. SoRBus torminalis (L.) Crantz. Malacese. 



From Borde Hill, Cuckfield, Sussex, England. Plants presented by Col. 

 Stephenson R. Clarke. Received February 25, 1920. 

 A fine large tree, native to southern and central Europe. The dark-green 

 leaves, rather variable in shape and size, turn yellow and red in autumn, 

 and the white flowers are borne in June in rather lax corymbs about 4 inches 

 in diameter. The reddish yellow roundish fruits are sometimes eaten when 

 very ripe. (Adapted from Eempel and Wilhelm, Bdume und Straucher, vol. S, 

 p. 81, pi. 53.) 



