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276707. SORGHUM VERTICILLIFLORUM (Steud.) Stapf Poaceae. Tabucki grass. From the Republic of South Africa. Seeds presented by the Department of Agricultural Technical Services, Pretoria. Received Sept. 22, 1961. DL/61/933. Indigenous to the warmer and wetter parts of the summer rainfall area. 276708 to 276713. From Hungary. Seeds presented by the National Institute for Agrobotany, Tapioszele. Received Sept. 25,1961. 276708. AGROPYRON CAMPESTRE Gren. & Godr. Poaceae. IV-68. Originally from the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Len- ingrad, U.S.S.R. Plants vigorous, resistant to drought, frost, rust and mildew. 276709. AGROPYRON PUNGENS (Pers.) Roem. & Schult. From the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. Plants vigorous, resistant to drought, frost, rust and mildew. Late type; heavy yielder. 276710. AGROPYRON SIBIRICUM (Willd.) Beauv. Siberian wheatgrass. IV-66. From Moscow, U.S.S.R. Plants vigorous, resistant to drought, frost, rust and mildew. 276711. AGROPYRON TENERUM Vasey Slender wheatgrass. IV-83. From the Botanical Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Vacratet. Plants vigorous, resistant to drought, frost, rust and mildew. 276712. AGROPYRON VIOLACEUM (Hornem.) Lange IV-75. Originally from the All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad, U.S.S.R. Plants vigorous, resistant to drought, frost, rust and mildew. 276713. BECKMANNIA ERUCIFORMIS (L.) Host Poaceae. Sloughgrass. From uncultivated plants, Tapioszele. 276714. PIERIS JAPONICA (Thunb.) G. Don Ericaceae. Japanese pieris. From Australia. Plants presented by Bert Chandler and Son, The Basin, Victoria, New South Wales. Received Sept. 26, 1961. 'Chandlerii'. 276715 to 276717. PYRUS COMMUNIS L. Malaceae. From Canada. Budsticks presented by the Research Branch, Genetics and Plant Breeding Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario. Received Sept. 26, 1961. 276715. 'Fertility'. 276716. 'Krol Sobieski'. 276717. 'Williams'. 276718. MALUS SYLVESTRIS Mill. Malaceae. From Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Budsticks presented by the All- Union Institute of Plant Industry, Leningrad. Received Sept. 27, 1961. Tervenec Samarkanda' ('Landsberg Reinette' X 'Sawarkand Early'). Plants from Uzbekistan; fruit early ripening, fair quality.