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29. SANDOMIRKA, O. E. 8S. 
Spring growth not very strong, small, semi-erect: Straw whitish-yellow:: 
Culms erect, though often somewhat decumbent: Panicles beardless, dull 
ashy bronze, glabrous, square or flattened, loose, tapering: Grain white or- 
mottled amber and white, plump, medium size, short: Thrashes well from 
glume. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 4 inches; diameter 1-8 to 3-16 
inch, average 1-8. 
Leaves: per panicle 4; length 3 to 11 1-2 inches, average. 
7; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 11-16 inch, average 7-16; 
lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 3 ¢ inches; thickness 3-8 to 7-16 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2; 
spikelets per panicle 12 to 21, average 16; grains per spike- 
let 2 to 4, average 3; one thousand weigh 548 grains. 
Introduced from Poland.! This is evidently the San- 
domir? wheat so well-known in portions of the United 
States 25 years ago, a variety extensively cultivated in 
Russia in the region of the Baltic and:German seas. In 
Poland there are two varieties, bearded and beardless. The- 
variety without beards is especially prized; is small, quite 
regular, of a red color, and is called Sandomir? wheat; 
the bearded is known as Szkalmirka wheat. 
30, SEIGLE, VIL. 
Synonym: Rye Wheat, (English name). 
Culms quite erect, and medium stout: Panicles beardless, bronze, loose, 
tapering: Glumes covered with fine, silvery kairs: Grain pale amber, small, 
and much shrunken: Thrashes from glume with difficulty: A spring variety. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 10 inches; tallest plant 3 feet 
6 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 1-7. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length of leaves 5 to 12 1-2 inches, 
average 9; width of upper leaves 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average. 
9-16; lower 1-8 to 5-16 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 5 + inches; thickness 3-8 to 7-16. 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 7-16 to 5-8 inch, average 9-163. 
spikelets per panicle average 19; grains per spikelet 2 to 3, 
very variable, and often 0. 
This wheat is a French variety, and derives its name. 
from the fact that it is mostly grown on land such as is em- 
ployed for rye. Vilmorin says* that after many trials he- 
has become convinced that ble sezgle (Rye Wheat) is not. 
suited to lands other than those adapted to rye. 
1Ohio Ag’! Ex. Station Report, 1882, p. 29. 
2U. S. Patent Office Report, Agriculture 1861, p. 334. 
3Ibid, p. 387. 
4Les Meilleurs Bles, 1880, p. 96. 
