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OAT. (Avena.) 
Species 1. Avena sativa, L. Spikelets from two to three 
flowered and completely enclosed by the empty glumes. 
until maturity. Flowering glumes strong and tough, 
becoming hard, and tightly enclosing the seed; rounded on 
the back, and usually awned at or near the center, the 
awns being generally longer than the glume. Flowers at- 
tached to one another by short, stout peduncles. 
Sub-species (a). Panicle open at maturity, the secondary 
branches being equally spreading on all sides from the 
rachis. 
+ Color of berry whitish-yellow. 
* Berry long and taper pointed. 
1. AMERICAN BEAUTY, ALEX. 
Synonym: Alexander’s No. 2. 
Early foliage medium to dark green, abundant, coarse: Stools profusely: 
Leaf sheaths slightly loose: Culms medium to large, erect and stout: Pani- 
cles open, large, coarse: Grain large, long, tapering, fairly plump, whitish- 
yellow: base of seed rarely capped with hairs; frequently awned: Thrashes 
well. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 
inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves : per culm 4 to5; length of top leaf 4 1-2 to 10 1-2 
inches, average 7 1-2; second leaf attains 15 inches, aver- 
age 13 ; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 7-8 inch, average 5-8 ; 
lower 1-4 to 1-2 inch, average 3-8. 
Panicle: peduncles 7 to 8, average 7; spikelets 2 to 3 
seeded. 
Mr. O. H. Alexander claims this variety to be a cross of 
his of the Excelsior on the Probsteier. 
2: DANISH, TAY, 
Early foliage dark green, of medium size, abundant: Stools fair: Sheaths 
of leaves slightly loose: Culms of good size, but soft and reclining at matur- 
ity: Panicles open, of medium size: Grain whitish-yellow, of medium size, 
long, tapering, broad backed; only slightly hairy at the base; frequently 
awned: Thrashes very well. 
Culm : average height 4 feet, tallest plant 5 feet 1 inch ; 
diameter 1-8 to 3-10 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves : per culm 4 to 5, average 5 ; length of top leaf 3 
1-2 to 14 inches, average 7 1-2; second leaf attains 18 1-2 
inches, averaging 14; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 1 1-15 inch, 
average 3-4 ; lower 5-16 to 11-16 inch, average 7-16. 
Panicle : average length 10 1-2 inches ; peduncles 6 to 9, 
average 7; spikelets 2 seeded. 
