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was increased from nursery to plat experiments in 1915. The plat 
yields are given in Table 2. The variety was distributed in south- 
western Louisiana for commercial growing in 1918. Enough seed 
of Fortuna (C. I. Xo. 1344) was grown in 1921 to sow approximately 
100,000 acres in 1922. 
The stout green culms of the Fortuna variety are striped with 
purple and usually number five to the plant. Their average height, 
including the panicles, is 51 inches. The nodes are brown, marked on 
their lower margin with green. The sheath nodes are light green 
and marked on their upper margin with purple. The outer surface 
of the leaf sheaths is green, streaked with purple, and their inner 
surface is purple, especially toward the base. The auricles are mem- 
branous and 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 11§ inches, 
and each bears on an average 1ST seeds. Before maturity the glumes 
are dark purplish brown, and the distal end of the spikelets is 
purple. The stigmas are dark purple. 
The seeds (kernel plus hull: PL I, D and E) average 10.1 milli- 
meters in length and 3.1 millimeters in thickness. The glumes are 
light brown and distinctly notched on the margins. The hull (lemma 
and palea) is pale yellow, medium in thickness, and thinly covered 
with short white hairs. The apex of the hull terminates in two 
dark-brown conical teeth, located on the meson, and unequal in 
length. The conical lateral teeth usually are absent and when pres- 
ent are inconspicuous. 
The kernels (PL I, F and G) average in length 7.7 millimeters, 
in width (lateral diameter) 1.8 millimeters, and in thickness (dorsi- 
yentral diameter) 2.5 millimeters. Viewed laterally, the dorsal and 
ventral margins are unequally convex, the ventral being the less so. 
The distal end is obtuse. The opaque area when present is narrow 
and located near the center of the kernel. 
This variety matures in approximately 142 days and has produced 
an average yield of 2.530 pounds of paddy and 2,210 pounds of straw 
per acre. On the lighter soil of southwestern Louisiana it produced 
2.199 pounds of paddy per acre. Acre yields of 2,775 pounds of 
paddy have been obtained from it on old prairie land which had been 
rested and closely pastured for two years. On new land in the 
Mississippi River section of Louisiana near Carville this variety has 
produced 5.366 pounds of excellent grain per acre. It produces good 
yields on poor soil. When grown on very rich soil it shows a 
tendency to lodge. Its grain is likely to shatter if harvest is de- 
layed too long after maturity. 
ACADIA. 
The Acadia variety is a pure-line selection from the Omachi 
variety, which was imported from Japan in 1910 by a rice farmer 
of Crowley. La. 
This selection was made at the Eice Experiment Station, Crowley. 
La., by the writers in 1911. The name Acadia is the name of the 
parish in which the station is located and was applied to this selection 
m 1917. The selection was increased from nursery to plat experi- 
ments in 1916. The plat yields are given in Table 2. The variety 
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