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No. 7. Pringle’s New Hybrid. Average height three feet. Culm 
erect, slender. Leaves usually erect along the culm, exceeding one- 
half an inch in width, and nine or more in length; lance-linear, and 
_ at base of blade white. Panicles average nearly four inches long, 
and somewhat nodding; berry small, with awn attaining nine inches 
in length. Stools well, and produces a great abundance of foliage, 
much of which near the ground dies before the plant reaches matu- 
rity. As the period of ripening is approached, this variety shows 
great weakness of the culm. 
No. 8. Sibley’s Imperial. Average height three feet three inches. 
Culm very erect. Leaves lance-linear, often attaining a length of 
twelve inches, and a width of slightly over one-half inch; usually 
erect along the culm. fPanicles average four and one-half inches 
long, nodding ; berry small, with awn often exceeding seven inches. 
This variety stools freely, and produces an abundance of foliage. 
As maturity approaches, the culms become weak and decumbent. 
Claimed to be a cross between the common six-rowed and Chevalier 
by F. H. Horsford in 1881, and first disseminated by Hiram Sibley 
& Co., Rochester, N. Y., in 1883. | 
++ Seeds black, or grayish-black, and falling from the palet and 
glume upon being threshed. 
No. 9. Black Hulless. Average height, two feet six inches. 
Culm weak and often decumbent ; leaves broadly lance-linear, often- 
times reaching nearly one inch in width, and ten inches in length ; 
basal portion of blade white. Panicles average three inches long, 
nodding; berry with awn attaining a length of seven inches; 
Stools sparingly. This variety is the weakest and most decumbent 
of any that has been grown at the Station. 
Species III. Hordeum trifurcatum, Vil. Six-rowed, there 
being three spikelets on each joint of the rachis; palets awnless, 
but terminating in a three-lobed or eared point, the central lobe assum- 
ing a hooded form, while the lateral lobes are merely ears which are 
usually pointed and of variable length. The grain is not firmly ad- 
herent to the palet and glume at maturity, but becomes loose upon 
being threshed. 
Variety, No. 10. Nepaul Barley. Average height, two feet 
three inches. Oulm stout, and slightly decumbent at the basal por- 
tion, then becoming erect. Leaves lance-linear, taper pointed, at- 
taining a length of twelve inches and a width of one and three-fourths 
of an inch; panicles compact, erect or slightly nodding, averaging 
three and one-fourth inches long; tip spikelets, rudimentary or in- 
clined to sterility or partial development; berries uneven in size, 
there being many small ones, evidently produced from the weak 
spikelets at the tips of the panicles. Color of seed amber or dark 
brown. Supposed to originally have come from Nepaul. Vilmorin, 
in “Le Bon Jardinier” for 1884, mentions its culture in France as 
far back as 1836-1838. 
