Botanical Article Bibliographic Records

HI Number 152929

Author: Vilmorin, Pierre Louis François Levêque
Coauthors:
Title: De l'avoine d'hiver.
MLP no: 3942
BPH Series Abbreviation: Cultivateur (Paris)
Citation: 1([3]): 119-123. 1829 [Sept.]
Year(s): 1829
Note: p. 120 gives the plant's characteristics. The rest of the article deals with its advantages. Widely cultivated in Brittany.
The article ends with a post script: Vilmorin says, that, up to that time, he had known of only one variety of winter oats, that just described. However, information incomplete though it was, had led him to believe that another variety with a black or dark brown ear existed.