174 BULLETIIT 1334^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE 
SIX-ROWED HULLED AWNED BLACK BARLEYS 
LION (C. I. NO. 923) 
Lion (C. I. No. 923) is a pedigreed selection from S. P. I. 'No. 32767 
made in the cooperative breeding experiments conducted by the 
United States Department of Agriculture and the Minnesota Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station at St. Paul, Minn. The original barley 
from which this selection was made was first found at the agricultural 
experiment station in Taganrog, southern Kussia. It was obtained 
from the experiment station near Rostov on Don through the Office 
of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, in December, 1911. Lion is a 6-rowed black 
smooth-awned variety. It has been used as one of the parents in a 
number of crosses in the hope of producing a high-yielding smooth- 
awned hybrid. While it has produced good yields at several of the 
experiment stations, it has no present commercial importance. At 
the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station this barley was called 
Michigan Black Barbless and was distributed under that name. 
Apparently the Lion sent to the Michigan station from Minnesota 
had become mixed, as more than one type was selected at Michigan. 
It is the opinion of the writers that the strain finally chosen for dis- 
tribution was identical with Lion, as they have been able to find no 
differences between the two. 
GATAMI (C. I. NO. 575) 
Gatami (C. I. No. 575) barley was imported into the United States 
from Mukden, Manchuria, by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 
Introduction of the United States Department of Agriculture in 
April, 1907. At many of the experiment stations in earlier years it 
was grown under the Chinese name Gai ta mi or some variation of 
this spelling. It is a black-bearded 6-rowed barley having the same 
general growth requirements as Manchuria and Odessa. Wliile it 
has been widely tested in the United States, it is usually surpassed 
in yield by Manchuria and Odessa when grown at the same stations. 
It is a very early variety, ripening several daj^s before Manchuria 
or Odessa at most points. For this reason it has proved to be of 
value in localities in South Dakota where hot diy weather occm's 
early in the summer. 
SIX-ROWED NAKED BARLEYS 
NEPAL (C. I. NO. 595) 
Nepal is one of the older types of barley grown in the United States. 
It is. thought to have originated in Nepal, India, wiiere it was first 
noticed by Europeans in 1839. The number C. I. No. 595 (PL III, 
fig. 1, A) has been given to most of tJie 6-rowed naked hooded barleys 
that are not selections or pedigreed strains. This variety has been 
tested at one period or another at nearly all the experiment stations 
in the United States. It has also been grown under many names at 
these stations, the more common ones being White Hull-less, Giant 
Wliite Hull-less, Ideal Hull-less, and Colossal Hull-less. Because it 
has no awns and is hull-less it is not unpleasant to handle and is 
very easily threshed. These qualities make it a desirable typo of 
