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1. BELOTOURKA, VIL. 
Culms very tall, slender and weak, and apparently unable to sustain the 
fully developed panicles, many culms lying flat upon the ground at maturity: 
Panicles very long bearded, dirty yellow, very compact yet not crowded, 
glabrous, noticeably glaucous when ripe, square, tapering but slightly: 
Grain very pale yellow-amber, large, long, slightly shrunken, and very hard: 
Thrashes rather hard from the glume: A spring wheat. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 3 inches, tallest plant 4 feet; 
diameter 1-5 to 1-5 inch, average 1-7. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 1-2 to 13 1-4 inches, average 
10 1-2; width of upper leaf 5-16 to 13-16 inch, average 1-2 ; 
lower 1-8 to 1-2 inch, average 3-16. 
Panicle: average length 3 + inches; thickness 7-16 to 3-4 
inch, average 9-16 inch; breadth 3-8 to 5-8 inch, average 1-2; 
spikelets per panicle average 19; grains per spikelet 2 to 5, 
average 4. 
Although Vilmorin states! that this variety has a filled 
straw, that grown at the Station from seed sent here by 
Vilmorin, Andrieux et Cie, was hollow, though the sides of 
the culms were much thicker than with varieties of satzvum. 
This may be owing to the fact that our climate is not really 
suited to the variety, as the grain does not have the perfect 
development that it does in Kurope and Africa. Supposed 
to be from Southern Russia. 
2. EGYPTIAN, DEP’T OF AG’L. 
Culms large, long but very weak, and solid, excepting in the larger part 
of the straw between the nodes, where a very small cavity exists: Panicle 
very long bearded; glumes dirty yellow, often with edges blackish tinted, 
and flowering glumes tipped with long brown or brown-black awns; glabrous, 
glaucous, compact though not crowded, square, and _ but slightly 
tapering: Grain medium light amber, large, long, very hard, shrunken: 
Thrashes from glume rather hard: ‘A spring wheat. 
Culm: average height 3 feet 6 inches, tallest plant 4 feet 
‘4 inches; diameter 1-8 to 1-4 inch, average 1-6. 
Leaves: per culm 4; length 5 1-2 to 16 inches, average 9 ; 
width of upper leaf 3-8 to 13-16 inch, average 5-8 ; lower 1-8 
to 7-16 inch, average 5-16. 
Panicle: average length 3 1-2 + inches; thickness 7-16 to 
11-16 inch, average 5-8; breadth 1-2 to 3-4 inch, average 5-8; 
spikelets per panicle average 20; grains per spikelet 2 to 5, 
average 4. 
This variety was distributed by the U.S. Dep’t of Ag’l in 
1885, as an imported winter wheat. It was planted in the 
fall, and during the winter all the plants were destroyed by 
cold. It is not the true Egyptian wheat. known as Triticum 
compositum, or Miracle wheat, having a branching panicle, 
but has a simple head like other varieties. 
1Les Meilleurs Blés, 1880, p. 140. 

