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In addition to the type represented by the strains A, 

 B, and D (which is described in the paragraph below) 

 there have appeared in the cultures from the wild seed 

 the following three types markedly different from one 

 another and from the general run of wild gramlijlonis. 



1. A type represented by a large plant (2 m. high) 

 peculiar for its light green broadly elliptical leaves, gen- 

 erally green stem, green sepals, and a close rosette of 

 crinkled leaves strongly resembling a half-grown rosette 

 of Lamarchiana. This type, represented by a single 

 plant (grandiflora I) appeared this year, 1910, and is 

 likely to prove of great interest. It will not, however, be 

 described until its behavior in later generations has been 

 noted and its crosses with biennis have been grown. 



2. A type represented by a relatively small plant (1.2 

 m. high) with stiff, broadly lanceolate, revolute leaves, 

 and sepals deeply blotched with red. This peculiar form 



