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are dark green streaked with light green, the sheath nodes light 
green. The auricles are persistent. The ligules are five-eighths 
of an inch in length. The leaf blades are narrow, averaging three- 
eighths of an inch in width. The panicles have an average length 
of 8| inches, and each bears on an average 137 seeds. 
The seeds (PL IV, A and B) average 7.4 millimeters in length and 
3.7 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are pale yellow and have 
smooth margins. The hull, which loosely incloses the kernel, is light 
yellow and medium in thickness. Its surface has a burlaplike appear- 
ance and is thinly covered with white hairs. These hairs are longer 
and more conspicuous toward the apex and are usually prominent on 
the veins. A light-yellow awn with a very short conical yellow tooth 
at its base on each side is characteristic of the variety. The awn varies 
in length from 10 to 2G millimeters, is deciduous, and sometimes not 
present on all spikelets of the panicle. When the awn is absent, the 
apex of the hull terminates in four conical yellow teeth. The two 
that are prominent are located on the meson and are unequal in 
length, the longer one lying dor sally. The other two are lateral and 
rather short. 
The kernels (PL IY, C and D) average in length 5.5 millimeters, in 
width 2.1 millimeters, and in thickness 3.2 millimeters. Viewed later- 
ally, their dorsal and ventral margins are equally convex, and their 
distal end is broadly obtuse. The opaque area when present is small 
and is located on or near the dorsal margin. 
This variety matures in approximately 137 days and has produced 
an average acre yield of 2,727 pounds of paddy and 1,777 pounds of 
straw. It may be grown on the poorer prairie lands of Louisiana and 
Texas with more profit than may be obtained from Blue Rose, which 
has a longer period of growth and requires richer soil for high pro- 
duction. Wataribune rice should not be sown on very rich soil, for 
under such conditions it shows a tendency to lodge. 
BLUE ROSE. 
The Blue Rose variety is the result of a selection made by Sol. 
Wright, of Crowley, La., from an unknown variety which was found 
by J. F. Shoemaker, also of Crowley, La., in 1907, in a field of a 
Japanese rice that he was growing east of Jennings, La., near the 
Mermentau River. Many plants of this unknown variety were cut 
at maturity by Mr. Shoemaker and given by him to Mr. Wright, who 
isolated a strain which he later offered for sale under the name Blue 
Rose. 
The stout light-green culms of this variety are striped with dark 
green and usually number seven to the plant. Their average height, 
including the panicles, is 44 inches. The culm nodes are dark green ; 
sheath nodes light green. The auricles are deciduous. The ligules are 
half an inch long. The leaf blades are broad, averaging five-eighths 
of an inch in width. The panicles have an average length of 8-J inches, 
and each bears, on an average. 144 seeds. 
The seeds (PL IV, E and F) average 8.7 millimeters in length and 
3.4 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are pale yellow and have 
smooth margins. The hull loosely incloses the kernel and is yellow 
and thick. Its surface has a burlaplike appearance and is thinly 
