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_ Wright’s Corners, N. Y., Jaq. ; Johnson & Stokes, Phil., 
Pa., J. & 8.; D. Landreth & Sons, Phil., Pa., Land.; Jas. 
Miller, Penn Yan, N. Y., Mill. ; Mr. Moffatt, Gorham, N. 
Y., Moff. ; Ohio Experiment Station, Columbus, Ohio, O. 
EK. 5.; Patterson Bros., Windfall, Ind., Pat. Bro. ; Pringle 
& Horsford, Charlotte, Vt., P. & H.; Rural New Yorker, 
New York city, R. N.-Y.; .W. F. Seaving, Sher- 
wood, N. Y., Seav.; Hiram Sibley & Co., Rochester, N. Y., 
Sib.; D. W. Sprague, Portland, Dak., Sprag.; J. M. Thor- 
burn & Co., New York city, Thorb. ; Vilmorin, Andrieux 
.& Cie, Paris, France, Vil. 
Synonyms are italicized. The averages given refer to 
the numbers or:measurements most common relating to 
the part. The signs—, }, or + indicate whether the meas- 
urements tend to less, more or less, or slightly more than 
the figures given, — being minus sign, + plus or minus, + 
plus. In order that the terms given may be understood by 
-all, the following are explained: Culm: the stem bearing 
the head, or botanically speaking, panicle. The panicle 
consists of many breasts or spikelets, and the outer chaff of 
these is termed the glume, the inner enclosing the grain 
the flowering glume. The term glabrous signifies smooth, 
and glaucous, covered witha bluish bloom. Properly speak- 
ing, there 1s no red wheat, the color varying from yellowish- 
white through the various shades of amber, from very light 
LOOArK: 
Some changes have been made in the classification pre- 
sented in the report of 1885. The effort has been made to 
‘concentrate the varieties as much as possible, and when 
‘circumstances would permit, this has been done. In one 
-or two instances, radical changes have been made. Another 
season’s study has shown that Surprise and Washington 
Glass might with justice be considered different varieties. 
What were classed in some cases as varieties in 1885, have 
this year been placed under the list of synonyms. The 
period of ripening has not been considered an essential 
point in describing, as this is much subject to climatic and 
-other influences. 
Varieties of the following species of Triticum vulgare are 
‘described : Triticum sativum; T. durum; T. polonicum ; 
I’. spelta; T. amyleum; T. monococcum. None of these, 
in reality sub-species, excepting sativum, are commonly 
grown in America. They are mostly grown in Continental 
Kurope, Asia and Africa. 
TRITICUM SATIVUM tam. 
This species is composed of our ordinary or soft wheats. 
‘The stems are hollow, the grain soft; there are both winter 
