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Spikelets : per panicle average 17; grains per spikelet 2 
to 4, average 3; one thousand weigh 636 grains. 
The name Velvet Chaff is commonly applied to all those 
varieties whose glumes are more or less villous. These 
varieties are both bearded and beardless, and have been 
known foryears. Sinclair! under Triticum vulgare mentions 
one bearded and sixteen beardless varieties. One variety is 
described which must be, practically speaking, synonymous 
with this, viz.: ‘‘ spike short, fleshy, turgid, awned; brown- 
ish; culm feeble.” In growing many varieties at the Sta- 
tion, it has been noticed that the Velvet Chaff wheat of one 
form or another frequently appears. This has been re- 
marked when the greatest pains have been taken to plant 
pure seed of varieties. 
tt Panicle White. 
9. BENNETT, O. E. S. 
Spring growth wiry, and lying close to the ground: Straw whitish-yellow : 
‘Culms of medium size: Panicles long bearded, white, glabrous, compact 
and blunt at the tip, spikelets becoming gradually separated toward the 
base, and larger at the tip than base: Grain medium light amber, fairly 
long, slightly shrunken; Thrashes from glume medium well. 
Culm: average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 5 inches; 
average diameter 1-5 inch. 
Leaves: per culm 4 ; length 6 to 12 inches, averaging 9 ; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; lower leaf 
8-20 to 5-8 inch. 
Panicle: average length 4 1-2+inches; average thick- 
ness 3-8 inch ; breadth 1-2 inch ; spikelets per panicle 14 to 
20, average 18 ; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, average 3. 
10. CHAMPLAIN, LAND. 
Growth not very stocky: Culm with a weak tendency, and when well 
‘developed, inclined to fall to one side: Panicle long bearded, white, gla- 
brous, loose tapering: Grain light, dull amber, small, short, plump or 
‘slightly shrunken: Thrashes hard from glume: Is a spring variety. 
Culm : average height 2 feet 8 inches, tallest plant 3 feet 
‘9 inches ; diameter 1-7 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length of leaf 5 1-2 to 13 3-4 inches, 
average 9; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 11-16 inch, average 
‘7-16; lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, averaging 3-16. 
Panicle : average length 5 1-2 t inches; thickness 3-8 to 
7-16 inch, average 3-8 ; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; 
spikelets per panicle 20; grains 2 to 5, average 3. 
Said to be across produced by G. C. Pringle, of Charlotte, 
Vt., in 1870, of Black Sea with the Golden Drop. 

1Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, 1824 p. 114. 
