89 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 3 to 10 1-4 inches, average 6 
3-4 ; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 3-8 ; lower 
1-8 to 3-16 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle : average length 3 1-2+inches; thickness 5-16 to 
3-8 inch, average 3-8 ; breadth 3-8 to 3-4 inch, average 9-16; 
spikelets per panicle average 16 ; grains per spikelet 2 to 6, 
average 4. ? 
This variety was discovered! in May, 1854, by a Mr. 
Boughton, of Essex Co., Va., ina field of wheat. Since 
then it has had a wide dissemination, and especially since 
1862, when it was distributed by the U.S. Dep’t of Agri- 
culture. Klippart? states that it is a variety of the Gene- 
see Flint, and that it was introduced into Ohio from Virginia 
in 1858. ; 
49. WASHINGTON GLASS, 0. E. S. 
Culm large but weak, and plants sprawling: Panicles beardless, white, 
glabrous, loose to compact, the tip usually being compact and blunt, the 
base quite loose: Grain fairly light amber, very large, slightly shrunken: 
‘Thrashes hard from glume. 
Culm : average height 3 feet 3 inches; diameter 1-7 to 
1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves : per culm 4; length 6 to 13 inches, average 9 1-2; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 15-16 inch, average 9-16; lower 
1-8 to 1-2 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle: average length 5+inches ; thickness 3-8 to 1-2 
inch, average 7-16 ; breadth 1-2 to 7-8 inch, average 13-16 ; 
spikelets per panicle 16 to 21, average 19; grains per spike- 
let 2 to 5, average 4 ; one thousand weigh 687 grains. 
50. WHITE RUSSIAN, J. & S. 
Synonyms: Green Mountain, Greg.; Pringle’s Green 
Mountain, J. & S. 
Culms erect, though decumbent at the base; and not very stout: Panicles 
beardless, white, glabrous, very long, loose, tapering, flattened: Grain dark 
amber, medium size, fairly long, sparingly plump: Thrashed from glume 
‘very well: A spring wheat. 
Culm : average height 3 feet, tallest plant 4 feet ; diame- 
ter 1-7 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length of leaf 6 to 12 1-2 inches, 
average 9 ; width of upper leaf 3-8 to 11-16 inch, average 
1-2 ; lower 1-8 to 3-8 inch, average 1-4. 
Panicle : average length 6+inches ; thickness 3-8 to 7-16 | 
inch, average 3-8 ; breadth 7-16 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8 ; 
1U. S. Dep’t Ag’l Report, 1872, p. 410. 
?The Wheat Plant, Klippart, 1859, p. 581. 

