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41. PURPLE STRAW, BLOUNT. 
Culms very erect and stiff, but small: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, 
fairly compact, tapering, small, slender: Grain medium dark amber, small, 
slender, shrunken: Thrashes quite easily from glume. 
Culm: average height 2 feet 8 inches; tallest plant 3 feet 
7 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-6 inch, average 1-7. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 to 10 3-4 inches, average 7; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 7-16; lower 1-8. 
to 1-4 inch, average 3-16. | 
Panicle: average length 3 1-2 + inches, thickness 5-16 to: 
7-16 inch, average 3-8; breadth 5-16 to 9-16 inch, average: 
7-16; spikelets per panicle average 18; grains per spikelet 1 
to 4, usually none, sometimes 2. 
This variety winter kills at the Station, and when grown 
as a spring variety amounts to nothing, the seeds develop- 
ing very poorly, and the whole plant making a poor show- 
ing. 
42. RUSSIAN MAY, O. E. 8. 
Synonym: Russzan No. 2, O. E. 8. 
Spring growth small, semi-erect, with sparse foliage: Straw yellowish- 
white: Culms fairly stout, erect: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, square, 
compact, abruptly pointed, the tip being slightly larger, if anything, than 
the base: Grain dark amber or mottled, smaller than medium, short, slightly 
shrunken: Thrashes from glume easy. 
Culm : average height 3 feet; diameter 1-7 to 1-5 inch, 
average 3-16. 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 3 3-4 to 10 1-2 inches, aver- 
age 7 1-2; width of upper leaf 1-4 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; 
lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 3 1-4 tinches; thickness varying 
on an average from 3-8 inch at base to 5-8 inch at tip ; 
breadth 3-8 to 11-16 inch, average 5-8 ; spikelets per panicle 
14 to 21, average 17; grains per spikelet 2 to 4, average 3 ;. 
one thousand weigh 409 grains. 
43. RUST PROOF, BLOUNT. 
Culms small, very stiff and erect: Panicles beardless, white, glabrous, 
loose, slender, tapering: Grain ‘pale amber, medium size, fairly long, plump: 
Thrashes from glume first rate: not rust proof. A spring variety. 
Culm : average height 3 feet, tallest plant 3 feet 10 inches; 
diameter 1-10 to 1-6 inch, average 1-8. . | 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 4 to 10 1-2 inches, average 7; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 11-16 inch, average 1-2; lower 
1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle : average length 4+inches ; thickness 3-8 to 7-16 
inch, average 3-8; breadth 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; 
