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Leaves: per culm 4 to 6, average 5 ; length of top leaf 3 
1-2 to 9 1-2 inches, average 7; second leaf attains 14 1-2 
inches, average 12 inches ; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 
inch, average 1-2 ; lower 3-16 to 1-2 inch, average 5-16. 
Panicle: average length 12 inches; peduncles 6 to 9, 
_ average 7; grains per spikelet average 2. 
12. WASHINGTON. 
Early foliage medium green, medium to coarse, sparse: Stools sparingly: 
Culms erect till near maturity when weakness develops; Sheaths tight or 
slightly loose: Panicle large, weak: Grain whitish-yellow, medium size, 
long, tapering, occasionally awned, rarely hairy at base: Thrashes well. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 
3-10 inch, average 1-5. 
Leaves: per culm 4 to 5, average 5; length of top leaf 5 
1-2 to 13 inches, average 9 1-2; second leaf attaining 17 
inches, average 13 1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 1 inch, 
average 11-16; lower leaf 1-4 to 1-2 inch, average 3-8. 
Panicle: average length 8 inches; peduncles 6 to 8, aver- 
age 7; grains per spikelet average 2. 
Said to have come from Washington Territory, and sent. 
out by the U. 8. Dep’t of Agriculture. 
13.. WHITE EUREKA, SIB. 
Synonyms: White Champion; White German, O. E. S. 
Early foliage dark green, of medium size, very profuse: Stools abundantly : 
Culms usually erect, slender; sheaths tight to loose: Panicle open, of good 
size, fairly stout: Grain medium to large, long, tapering, broad-backed, pale 
yellow, or whitish-yellow, quite awned, base slightly hairy capped: Thrashes 
well. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 
inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4 to 6, average 5; length of top leaf 5 
to 12 inches, average 7 1-2; second leaf attains 16 1-2 inches, 
average 13 1-2; width of upper leaf 7-16 to 1 inch, average 
3-4; lower 1-4 to 9-16 inch, average 7-16. 
_ Panicle: average length 8 inches; peduncles 6 to 8, 
average 7; grains per spikelet average 2, the larger some- 
times being enclosed in the suture of the flowering glume 
of smaller. 
Introduced by A. H. Goddard, Fort Atkinson, Iowa, and 
originally from Germany, having been brought to Iowa by 
German immigrants. | 
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