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19. WAYNE COUNTY SELECT, 0. E. S. 
Spring growth very erect, even and robust: Straw yellow: Culms stout 
and erect, medium to large: Panicles long bearded, white, glabrous, very 
compact, square, blunt at the tip, slightly tapering towards the base: Grain 
white, of medium size, short, plump: Thrashes from giume easily. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 
inch, average 1-6. | 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 1-4 to 12 1-2 inches, average 
9; width of upper leaf 1-4 to 11-16 inch, average 7-16; lower 
1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 2 3-4 + inches; thickness increas- 
ing from 8-8 inch at base to 7-8 at tip, averaging 3-8 inch at 
base and 3-4 at tip; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; 
spikelets per panicle 15 to 20, average 16; grains per spike- 
let 3 to 4, average 4; one thousand weigh 541 grains. 
20. WHITE BLUE STEM, O. E. 8S. 
Synonyms: Houptian QO. E.8.; Negger, O. E.8.; Thess, 
Spring growth semi-erect, medium stout: Straw yellow: Culms stout, 
usually erect: Panicles long beareed, white, glabrous, flattened, loose to 
compact, slightly tapering: Grain medium dark amber, medium size, long, 
plump or slightly shrunken: Thrashes from glume easily. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 10 inches; diameter 1-8 to 
1-5 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 4 1-2 to 11 1-4 inches, average 
8; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 11-16 inch, average 7-16; 
lower 1-8 to 8-8 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 4 ¢ inches; average thickness 3-8 
inch; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; spikelets per pani- 
cle 14 to 19, average 17; grains per spikelet 3 to 4, average 
4; one thousand weigh 586 grains. 
It is stated! that this variety was introduced into Jef- 
ferson Co., Ohio, in 1804, by Wm. Shannon, where it was 
grown for many years. Klippart is of the opinion that 
there is no doubt but that it is an offspring of ‘‘Flint” wheat, 
modified and improved. In the fall of 1843 it was distrib- 
uted by the U.S. Patent Office.2 There is no question 
but that many varieties have been known under this name 
of Blue Stem, a name derived from a bluish tint sometimes 
seen just beneath the panicle in the wheat plant. 
1Klippart, The Wheat Plant, 1859, p. 538. 
2U. S. Patent Office Rep’t, Agriculture, 1850, ’51, p. 4383. 



