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Culm : average height 2 feet 10 inches, tallest plant 3 feet 
9 inches ; diameter 1-16 to 1-5 inch, average 1-8. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length of upper leaf 2 to 18 1-2 
inches, average 7 1-2; average length of lower leaf 9 inches; 
width of upper leaf 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4; lower 1-4 to 
1-2 inch, average 5-16. 
Panicle: average length 6 1-2 inches; grains per spikelets 
2 to 3, average 3. 
This variety was distributed by the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, in the spring of 1886, and is said to have come 
from Alabama. 
28. RUST PROOF, O. E. S. 
Synonyms: Georgia Red Rust Proof, John.; Mammoth 
Russian, Milliard’s Kansas Hybrid, O. KE. 8.; 
Red Rust Proof, Gul. 
Early foliage light green, fine almost to grassiness, usually profuse, very 
matted: Stools strikingly: Culms small to medium, fairly strong; sheaths. 
closely clasping: Panicles open, small, dark green: Grain light dun or 
whitish-brown, large, plump, broad backed, tapering, long, usually awned, 
tip grayish and ragged, base capped with delicate hairs which often exceed 
1-8 of an inch in length: Thrashes rather hard: A winter oat. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 6 inches; tallest plant 4 feet 
7 1-2 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4 to 5, average 5; average length of top 
leaf 7 inches; second leaf attains 15 1-2 inches, average 12: 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 9-16; lower 3-16 
to 1-2 inch, average 1-4. ) 
Panicle: average length 9 inches; peduncles 6 to 7, almost 
always 6; grains per spikelet 2 to 3, often the latter. 
Sub-species (b). Panicle closed or but slightly open at 
maturity, the peduncles being erect along the rachis of the 
panicles, with the general tendency towaids one side. 
+Color of berry black. 
{Berry long and tapering. 
29. BLACK TARTARIAN, P. & H. 
Synonym: Black Hungarian, P. & H. 
Early foliage medium to dark green, profuse, medium to coarse: Stools 
very weli: Culms stiff, erect and stout; sheaths somewhat loose: Panicles 
compact, erect, long, turned to one side, medium dark green: Grain of 
medium size, deep brown-black for lower two-thirds, and light brownish at 
the tip, tapering, fairly plump, strongly awned: Thrashes well: Glumes very 
prominent. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-7 to 1-3 
inch, average 1-4. 
Leaves: per culm 5 to 6, average 5; length of top leaf 6 to 
13 1-2 inches, avarage 9; second leaf attains 18 inches, 
