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in a naked condition from the flowering glume. Empty glumes 
very large. The main axes of the panicles, and peduncles of spike- 
lets, delicate and wiry. Panicle spreading. Color of seed, white. 
Varieties. No. 22. Chinese Hulless (Gregory). Average height 
two feet eight inches. Culm medium stout, erect to maturity, when - 
it loses the erect form of growth. Leaves average less than one- 
half an inch in width, exceeding twelve inches in length; linear; 
sparingly white at the base of leaf-blade. Average length of pani- 
cles seven inches. Pedicels of flowering glumes not:as strongly el- 
bowed as in the next variety. Berry very small, but does not loosen 
well from the glume in threshing. Doubtless from Europe, where 
it is known and cultivated to some extent as the Skinless Oat, the 
grain being ground into meal. The most ancient writings referring 
to Avena nuda are Chinese, dating from 618 to 709 A. D., where _ 
references are made to a skinless oat. 
No. 23. Pringle’s Excelsior Hulless. Synonym: Pringle’s Hy- 
bridized Hulless. Average height of plant three feet three inches. 
Culm erect, and strong until late in the growing season, when it 
evinces a disposition to weakness. Average width of leaves one-half 
inch, with an occasional length of twelve inches ; lance-linear ; white 
at base of leaf-blade. Average length of panicles eight inches ; 
very much drooping; but few glumes awned. Berry small and 
inferior, A cross of the common Hulless Oat, on the Excelsior, 
using the latter for pollen, as claimed by C, G.’Pringle, the origina- 
tor. 
Nores on Baruky. 
No. 1. Chevalier. Foliage very abundant and healthy. An ex- 
tremely stout and vigorous variety. . 
No. 2. Kinver’s Chevalier (Bliss). Foliage abundant, healthy, 
and rusting but slightly. Stools abundantly. Did not smut. 
Late in the season the culms were very badly affected with rust. 
At harvesting straw weak. Panicles nodding, and not evenly ma- 
turing. 
Nee 3. Two-Rowed (Bliss). Stools fairly well. Foliage very 
green and healthy. Culms somewhat affected by rust, and very erect 
at the cutting period. 
No. 4. Adams’s Heavy (Sibley). Stools very well. Smutted very 
badly ; worse than any other. Rusted quite severely. Plant weak 
and very subject to disease. Decumbent at cutting. 
No. 5. Four-Rowed (Bliss). Stools fairly well. Slightly aftlicted 
with rust and smut. Straw not very stout, and somewhat decum- 
bent at cutting. 
No. 6. Manshury. Stools fairly well. Afflicted with rust and 
smut very slightly. Growth very erect and even until harvesting. 
No. 7. Pringle’s New Hybrid. Stools well, and produces a great 
deal of foliage, much of which near.the ground dies before matu- 
