-HARD RED WINTER WHEATS IN DRY AREAS 3 
and midsized slender dark-red kernels. The stems are slender and 
| weak and subject to lodging under humid conditions. 
The Alton variety is distinct from the wheats of the Crimean group 
chiefly in being awnless and in having shorter and softer kernels. 
In addition to the hard red winter wheats a few other winter 
varieties belonging to the soft red winter and white wheat classes 
are being grown in the western United States. Most of these were 
: included in the experiments here reported and their performance is 
) compared with that of the hard red varieties. 
Following is a descriptive key for the distinct varieties of hard red 
winter wheats and also for the varieties of soft red winter wheats, 
common white wheats, and club wheats, from which comparative 
data are reported here. 
KEY TO THE VARIETIES 
HARD RED WINTER VARIETIES 
Spike awned; glumes glabrous, white or yellow; kernels red__(Crimean group). 
Kernels hard. . 
Beaks 2 to 8 millimeters long_-______-__---____-- Turkey (Alberta Red, 
Argentine, Armavir, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Crimean, Defi- 
ance, Eversole, Improved Turkey, Kharkof, Malakof, 
Pioneer Turkey, Red Russian, Red Winter, Reliable, Rieti, 
Romanella, Rumanian, Serbian, Tauranian, Theiss, Turkey 
Red, and Ulta), Altara, Karmont, Montana No. 36, Ne- 
braska No. 6, Nebraska No. 60, ‘‘Station Red.” 
Beaks 3 to 25 millimeters long. 
Ruse Tesistaing. + ae AA oie ster A Kanred (P—1066, P—1068). 
SERIE SUSEC (Ale eee ae en ee eee Bacska, Beloglina. 
Kernels semihard to hard. 
Glumes white to yellowish. 
Beaks 1 to 3 millimeters long. 
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Be EGG apes 5 RS - SORE OE de Se Hussar. 
eas: 2 abOhe, TATMLINELETS~ lon P42. a Sees Pesterboden 
(Banat, Budapest, Hungarian, Torgova, Weissenberg). 
Glumesetien black striped. = sel, cherie Pe he ee Blackhull. 
Spike awnless; glumes Blabrous, white or yellow; kernels red ____- (Alton group) 
Iton. 
SOFT RED WINTER VARIETIES 
Spike awned. 
Glumes glabrous. 
Climes*white or yellow--))2.--2-—--=--—- 052 Ps Fulcaster (Dietz), 
Jejar, Mammoth Red, Nebraska No. 28. 
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: Mediterranean. 
Glumes pubescent, brown or red_______- Penquite (Japanese Velvet Chaff). 
Spike awnless. 
Glumes glabrous. 
PRES wat ClOr, YENO Wo = Meee = we be Buffum No. 17, 
Fultz, Harvest Queen, Lofthouse, Minhardi, Purplestraw, 
Zimmerman. 
Rare PUM H Ol, POs 330 08 oe Se ee eed ee YES Currell, Odessa. 
Glumes pubescent, white or yellow. ____----_-_---_--- Jones Fife, Triplet. 
COMMON WHITE VARIETIES 
Spike awnless; glumes glabrous. 
Glumes white or yellow____-_-+-_--------- Prohibition, Winter Bluestem. 
mines OrOwe OF fee. 0207 Ste Se Goldcoin (Fortyfold), Kofod. 
CLUB VARIETY 
Spike awnless; glumes glabrous, white or yellow ____-__-_-______-_-_ Hybrid 128. 
