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Culm: average height 2 feet 10 inches, tallest plant 3 
feet 7 inches ; diameter 1-8 to 1-5 inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 3 3-4 to 10 3-4 inches, aver- 
age 6 1-2; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2 ; 
lower 3-16 to 8-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 4 1-2+inches ; average thickness 
3-8 inch; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8 ; spikelets 
per panicle, average 18; grains per spikelet 2 to 6, aver- 
age 4. 
37. GOLDEN STRAW, O. E. 8. 
Synonym: White Rogers, O. HK. 5. 
Spring growth poor, somewhat erect, small: Straw whitish-yellow: Culms 
usually erect, stout: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, fairly compact, 
slender, nearly square, tapering: Grain amber, medium size, short to medium, 
plump: Thrashes very easily from glume. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-8 to 
1-5 inch, average 3-16. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 3 to 12 inches, average 7 1-2; 
width of upper leaf 3-16 to 3-4 inch, average 1-2; lower 1-8 
to 1-4 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 3 ¢ inches; average thickness 3-8 
inch; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; spikelets per pani- 
cle 12 to 18, average 16; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, average 
3; one thousand weigh 509 grains. 
Klippart! records this variety, and his description cor- 
responds with the variety as grown to-day, as having been 
cultivated in Lawrence Co., Ohio, in 1844. 
38. LANDRETH, O. E. S., EAST. 
Synonym: Martin's Amber, O. E. 8., Ever. 
Spring growth good, partly erect, strong, producing an abundance of 
foliage: Straw whiteish-yellow: Culms very erect and stout: Panicle beard- 
less, white, glabrous, slightly loose, not being really compact, flattened, 
tapering: Grain white or light amber, medium size, short to medium long, 
plump: Thrashes from glume very well. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 10 inches; diameter 3-16 to 
1-5 inch, average 1-5. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 1-4 to 13 1-2 inches, average 
8; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 9-16; lower, 
3-16 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 4 ¢ inches; thickness average 3-8 
inch; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; spikelets per pani- 
cle 16 to 20, average 18; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, average 
3; one thousand weigh 564 grains. 
This variety was originally found growing in a field of 
1The Wheat Plant, Klippart, 1859, p. 528. 
