SOME STEW VARIETIES OF EICE. 7 
was distributed in southwestern Louisiana for commercial growing 
in 1918. Enough seed of Acadia (C. I. Xo. 1988) was grown in 1921 
to sow at least 40,000 acres in 1922. 
The slender culms of the Acadia variety are light green and 
usually number 10 to the plant. The average height, including the 
panicle, is 50 inches. The culm and sheath nodes are dark green. 
The auricles are deciduous. The ligules average half an inch in 
length. The leaf blades are narrow, averaging three-eighths of an 
inch in width. The panicles have an average length of 9 inches, and 
each bears on an average 132 seeds. 
The seeds (PI. I, H and /) average 7.2 millimeters in length and 
3.7 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are very pale yellow and 
have entire margins. The hull loosely incloses the kernel and is 
of medium thickness and yellow. Its surface has a burlaplike ap- 
pearance and is thinly covered with white hairs, which are long 
and conspicuous toward the apex. The apex of the hull terminates 
in four conical yellow teeth. The two that are prominent are lo- 
cated on the meson and are of equal length. The other two are 
lateral, xevy short, and inconspicuous. 
The kernels (PL I, / and K) average in length 5.7 millimeters, 
in width 2.1 millimeters, and in thickness 3.2 millimeters. A^iewed 
laterally, the dorsal and ventral margins are equally convex, and 
their distal end is broadly obtuse. The opaque area, when present, 
usually is small and located on the dorsal margin. 
This variety matures in approximately 139 clays. It produced an 
average yield of 2,884 pounds of paddy and 2,020 pounds of straw 
per acre. It has produced 4,702 pounds of paddy per acre on old 
rice land in the Mississippi Eiver section of Louisiana and as much 
as 5,155 pounds on new land in the same locality. On the prairies 
of southwestern Louisiana yields of 3,800 pounds per acre have 
been obtained. 
DELITUS. 
The Delitus variety is a pure-line selection from the Bertone 
variety, which was obtained by the United States Department of 
Agriculture in 1904 from Vilmorin, Anclrieux & Co., Paris, France. 
The selection was made at the Eice Experiment Station, Crowley, 
La., by the writers in 1911. The name Delitus is an abbreviation 
of the Latin word meaning delicate and was chosen also on account 
of its similarity in sound to the words " delight us." It was applied 
to this selection in 1917. This selection was increased from nursery 
to plat experiments in 1914. The plat yields are given in Table 2. 
The variety was distributed in southwestern Louisiana for commer- 
cial growing in 1918. The acreage of Delitus (C. I. No. 1206) is 
small, as at present it is grown only for home use. 
The culms of the Delitus variety are medium in size, brown, slightly 
flexed at the fourth node, and usually number seven to the plant. 
Their average height, including the panicles, is 53 inches. The 
nodes are dark brown and the sheath nodes light green. The inner 
surface of the lower part of the sheaths and the outer surface of 
the sheaths near the base are purple. The auricles are not promi- 
nent, but are persistent. The ligules average five-eighths of an 
inch in length. The leaf blades are broad, averaging five-eighths 
of an inch in width. The panicles have an average length of 
