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known as Farmer Jones (Sugar Plant No. 021639^4). A selection (Sugar 
Plant No. 0241523) is similar, but the glumes are occasionally involute. 
There are a number of types known as Orange, some of which vary from 
S. P. No. 01951) only in minor particulars. 
Honey Drip {Sugar Plant No. 021715-20), formerly known as Japanese Honey 
Drip. — Similar to S. P. No. 01959, but the panicle is more compact, and laterally 
the caryopsis is usually elliptic-rhomboid. 
Gooseneck {Sugar riant No. 021612-17). — Panicle oval, ovate, or occasionally 
obovate, semispreading or somewhat compact ; peduncle occasionally recurved ; 
axis extending to or nearly to the apex or sometimes two-thirds or three- 
fourths as long; first glume of fertile spikelet obovate, black except in the 
upper one-fourth or one-third, where often yellowish or yellowish brown, 
pilose with persistent hairs in the upper one-fourth or one-third ; awn short, 
brown at the base, loosely twisted, the bend exserted or more rarely included ; 
caryopsis when fully developed extending somewhat beyond the apices of the 
glumes or more rarely short of them, broadly obovate-elliptic, suborbicular, 
or elliptic, yellowish or brown, oil en darkest where having been exposed; 
pericarp often wrinkled, especially over the scutellum ; sterile spikelets more 
or less inflated and tending to open at the apices, occasionally having two 
lemmas, the palea, the lodicules, and stamens, the stamens sometimes on short 
filaments, sessile, or more commonly on pedicels ; first glume flattened ; second 
glume with the keel often prominent. 
A variety known as Leoti Red (Sugar Plant No. 0241443) somewhat re- 
sembles Gooseneck. The peduncle is not recurved, the panicle is a little more 
effuse, and the glumes are light reddish brown. 
Indiana Amber (Sugar Plant No. <>.! J 697-702). — Panicle ovate, oval, or obo- 
vate, averaging smaller than in S. P. No. 021612-17; peduncle erect or slightly 
bent; axis varying in length from one-third or one-halt the length of the panicle 
to the entire length : glumes of fertile spikelet commonly open about 00° to 90°, 
first glume obovate or occasionally obovate-deltoid, obtuse, or somewhat acute, 
much thickened, black and shining, the nerves usually visible only in the upper 
one-fifth or one-fourth and the lateral nerves coarse and scabrous-hispid with 
somewhat thickened black or blackish bristles ; awn similar to that in the 
preceding variety, hut darker, often black at the base; caryopsis extending 
beyond the apices of the glumes, dorsally broadly elliptic, broadly obovate- 
elliptic, or broadly ovate-elliptic, laterally irregularly elliptic or elliptic- 
rhomboid, more or less laterally tumescent and transversely wrinkled on the 
ventral side; style bases originating in a fold of the pericarp, sometimes some- 
what to the ventral half of the caryopsis; sterile spikelets nearly sessile or on 
black pedieels as much as one-third as long as the second glume of the 
fertile spikelet, compressed and frequently rolled inward at the sides, usually 
light yellow and black or dark brown, usually darkest below, shorter, or 
rarely a little longer than the second glume of the fertile spikelet, occasionally 
reaching a little beyond its apex. 
COMPACT GROUP 
Panicle branches are in general shorter, more rigid, and more 
angular than in the preceding group, the axis usually more deeply 
furrowed and botli axis and branches more abundantly pubescent. 
There are commonly one or more nodes without branches at the base 
of the panicle. In all varieties examined the caryopsis is exserted. 
Sapling {Sugar Plant No. 021630-31).— Regarding the type of panicle, this 
variety is transitional between the contracted and the compact groups. Panicle 
narrowly cylindric or subcylindric, longer, and somewhat more compact than in 
the preceding varieties, lowest node of panicle most frequently without rays; 
ridges of the axis often ciliate ; longest rays one-fourth to two-thirds as long as 
the panicle., sometimes inclining outward and the entire branch sometimes pend- 
ent ; secondary branches comparatively short ; first glume of fertile spikelet 
ovate-elliptic or occasionally elliptic-ovate, somewhat indurate and thickened, 
but thickened little in the upper half, obscurely nerved, the nerves usually ex- 
tending more than half the length downward from the apex and the lateral not 
hispid or occasionally with very minute bristles, black, or brownish, or very 
