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49801 to 49803. Holcus sorghum L. Poaceae. Sorghum. 

 {Sorghum vulgar e Pers.) 

 From Kaduna, Northern Provinces, Nigeria. Seeds presented by P. H. Lamb, 

 Director of Agriculture, through C. V. Piper. Received April 7, 1920. .Notes 

 furnished by H. N. Vinall, Office of Forage-Crop Investigations. 



49801. "Native name fara-fara. Variety with loose panicles about 13 inches 

 long and 3 inches in diameter. Seeds white, flat, rotating in the glumes 

 and shattering freely like shallu; glumes black, spreading, and involute." 



49802. "Native name kaura. Variety with rather compact panicles like 

 kafir, 14 to 15 inches long and 2i to 3 inches wide. Seeds somewhat larger 

 than kafir, of a very peculiar yellowish white color like pop corn, and 60 to 

 75 per cent exserted from the straw-colored glumes. " 



49803. ''Native na.me jauari. A variety ^ith loose panicles about 15 inches 

 long and 3 inches wide. Much like the fara-fara except that the seeds are 

 red instead of white. Resembles a red-seeded shallu. " 



49804 to 49813. 



From Paris, France. Seeds presented by D. Bois, Professeur de Culture, Museum 

 d'Histoire Naturelle. Received April 27, 1920, for use in rust investigations. 



49804. Triticum cylindricum (Host.) Ces. Pass, and Gib. Poaceae. Grass. 

 "A slender tufted suberect European annual, 25 to 50 centimeters tall, with 



unbranched culms, narrow, flat, rough blades, and solitary slender cylindrical 

 spikes 5 to 15 centimeters long." {Agnes Chase.) 



49805. Bromus macrostachys lanuginosus (Poir.) Coss. and Dur. Poaceae. 



Grass. 



An erect Bromus with lanceolate, pointed, somewhat compressed woolly 

 spikelets. Native to the Mediterranean region. (Adapted from Poiret^ 

 Encyclopedia Methodique Botanique, supplement, vol. 1, p. 703.) 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 16042. 



49806. Bromus madritensis L. Poaceae. Grass. 

 A tall, tufted, compact grass locally adventive from Europe. 



49807. HoRDEUM MARiTiMUM Roth. Poaccae. 



A species of barley grass occurring on the seacoasts of western Europe and in 

 the Mediterranean region, extending northward to Denmark. It is known as 

 *'sea barley," and in England it is also called " squirreltail grass." It occurs in 

 meadows, especially in brackish land along the seacoast, but is also found 

 sometimes in mountainous regions. (Adapted from Bentham and Hooker, 

 Handbook of British Flora, 6th ed., p. 528, and Boissier, Flora Orientalis, vol. 5, 

 p. 687.) 



49808. HoRDEUM vuLGARE coELESTE L. Poaceae. Barley. 

 This is probably the barley which, in Europe at least, was formerly the most 



widely cultivated form. 



49809. Clematis integrifolia L. Ranunculaceae. Clematis. 

 An erect herb, bearing rather narrow, blue, leathery flowers. 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 32239. 



49810. Clematis viticella L. Ranunculaceae. Clematis. 

 A European climber, 8 to 12 feet high, with blue, purple, or rose-purple 



flowers, a leading garden clematis. 



49811. Ranuxculus acris L. Ranunculaceae. 

 The tall or meadow buttercup. 



