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Culm: average height 3 feet 10 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 
inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 to 12 inches, average 8; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 7-8 inch, average 5-8; lower 3-16 
to 3-8, average 3-4. 
Panicle: average length 3 — inches; average thickness 3-8 
inch; width 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2; spikelets 10 to 16, 
average 13; two to 5 seeded, average 4; one thousand weigh 
787 grains. , 
A well-known variety. Mr. A. G. Boyd, of Hancock, 
Md., in a letter to the U.S. Dep’tof Ag’l’ says: ‘“The Lan- 
caster wheat is the earliest of our 
wheats and is in considerable demand 
with us.” 

4+. MEDITERRANEAN, O. E. S. 
Spring growth quite erect, vigorous, hardy: Straw whitish- yellow: Culms 
frequently decumbent; Panicle long bearded, light bronze, glabrous, nearly 
square, not very compact, abruptly pointed: Grain dark amber, large,@long, 
contracted, yet not shrunken: Thrashes easily from glume. 
Culm: average height 8 feet 6 inches; diameter 1-8 to 3-16 
inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 4 to 11 1-4 inches, average 
7 12; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 11-16 inch, average 1-2; 
lower 3-16 to 5-16, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 3 { inches; thickness 3-8 inch; 
breadth 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2. 
Spikelets: 11 to 16, average 13; grains per spikelet 2-3, 
average 3; one thousand weigh 683 grains. 
The earliest record I find of a wheat of this name being 
grown in America is, that it was introduced from Genoa, 
italy, in 1819 by John Gordon, of Wilmington, Del.,? but 
no description accompanies this. It probably was intro- 
duced into Maryland’ from the region of the Mediterran- 
ean sea, about 1837, from which locality it derived its name. 
5. RED MEDITERRANEAN, ETT. 
Culms rather weak: Panicles bearded very light bronze, almost white, 
glabrous, very loose, tapering: Grain medium to dark amber, large, long, 
slightly shrunken: Thrashes easily from glume. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 10 inches, tallest plant 3 feet: 
3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 4 to 12 inches, average 9; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; lower 1-8 
to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
1U. 8. Dep’t of Ag’l Report, 1862, p. 101. 
“U.S. Dept. of Ag’] Report, 1868, p. 501. 
*Trans. N. Y. State Ag’l Soc. 1843, p. 228. 


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