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SUMMARY OF SEED COLLECTIONS

Wild forage grasses ______________________  500
Cultivated forage grasses _________________       3
Wild forage legumes _____________________  193
Cultivated forage legumes ________________     31
Pulses _________________________________     47
Grains _________________________________     24
Oil seed cultivates _______________________     24
Cultivated vegetables ____________________      93
Cultivated cucurbits _____________________      44
Fruits and nuts _________________________       65
Spices _________________________________      35
Ornamentals ___________________________      68
Gum tragacanth (inclues Hb. specimens) ___      40
Miscellaneous __________________________    116

Total numbers __________________________  1283

Table 1 lists the collections according to some principle
economic segregates.  Wild forage grasses and legumes account for
over half of the entire collection.  Only two or three species of
forage grasses were found to be cultivated as regular crops,
Agropyron (229474) * and Sorghum halapense.  The former was
found in Azerbaijan Province, especially around Sarab in considerable
area.  It was cultivated for hay either mixed with barley
or by itself.  Dactylis glomerata also appeared to be planted in
the same region, as it frequently grew mixed with barley and sainfoin,
but the point was not certainly determined.

Most of the cultivated forage legumes of Iran consist of
Medicago sativa, Trifolium resupinatum, T. pratense, and Onobrychis

* Also PI 229476
        