. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 36 THE KAOLIANGS: A NEW GROUP OF GRAIN SORGHUMS. 18611 (G. I. Xo. 191). Manchu Brown. Source same as for 18610. (154, a.) A light-brown colored variety of sorghum grown on rather alkaline land. {}feyer.) Grown in varietal test at Amarillo and Chillicothe, Tex., Modesto, Oal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants to meters (5 to 7 feet) in height, slender to stout; panicle small, oval, rather compact, to dm. (6 to 9 inches) in length, the lower branches 5 to 10 cm. (2 to 4 inches) long, the rachis five-sixths as long as the pani
. Bulletin. 1901-13. Agriculture; Agriculture. 36 THE KAOLIANGS: A NEW GROUP OF GRAIN SORGHUMS. 18611 (G. I. Xo. 191). Manchu Brown. Source same as for 18610. (154, a.) A light-brown colored variety of sorghum grown on rather alkaline land. {}feyer.) Grown in varietal test at Amarillo and Chillicothe, Tex., Modesto, Oal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants to meters (5 to 7 feet) in height, slender to stout; panicle small, oval, rather compact, to dm. (6 to 9 inches) in length, the lower branches 5 to 10 cm. (2 to 4 inches) long, the rachis five-sixths as long as the panicle; spikelets 4 to mm. long; glumes black, shining; seeds obovate to broadly obovate oval, to 5 mm. long by 3 to 4 mm. wide, burnt sienna to cinnamon rufous to buff. A low to medium variety with small panicles, ripening in 100 to 105 days. 18612 (G. I. No. 192). Manchu Brown. Source the same as for No. 18610. (155, a.) A dark-brown colored variety of sorghum grown on rather alkaline land. (Meyer.) Grown at Amarillo and Chillicothe, Tex., Modesto, Cal., and North Platte, Nebr., in 1907. Plants slender, to meters (5 to 7 feet) in height; pani- cles medium size, light weight, lax, 2 to dm. (8 to 11 inches) long; spike- lets oval, 5 to 6 mm. long; glumes black, shining; seeds narrowly oval to oval or obovate. 4 to 6 mm. long, to 4 mm. wide, russet to burnt umber and bay, one- third exserted. A low to medium variety, of medium early maturity, ripening in 100 to 105 days. 18613. Headlands Brush. Received from Peking, China, at the Plant Intro- ductionGarden, Chico, Cal., through Mr. F. N. Meyer, May 18. 1906. (No. 172, a.) White seeded. Given to me by Mr. J. T. Headlands, of the Metho- dist Mission, Peking. This is tlie drooping variety u.^ed to make brooms from. (Meyer.) Grown at Chico, Cal., in 1906, but no record of its habit available. Planted at Chillicothe, Tex., in 1907, but the seed did not germinate. A description of the original panicle will be foun
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