[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 7, Volume 3]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 7CFR201.47a]



[Page 335-336]

 

                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE

 

 CHAPTER I--AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE \1\ (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, 

       MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (CONTINUED)

 

PART 201_FEDERAL SEED ACT REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 201.47a  Seed unit.



    The seed unit is the structure usually regarded as a seed in 

planting practices and in commercial channels. The seed unit may consist 

of one or more of the following structures:

    (a) True seeds;

    (b) For the grass family:

    (1) Caryopses and single florets;

    (2) Multiple florets and spikelets in tall oatgrass (Arrhenatherum 

elatius), oat (Avena spp.), gramas (Bouteloua spp.), rhodesgrass 

(Chloris gayana), barley (Hordeum vulgare), and bluegrass (Poa spp.);

    (3) Entire spikelets in bahiagrass, bentgrasses, dallisgrass, 

guineagrass, browntop millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, 

panicgrasses, redtop, rice, switchgrass, and vaseygrass. Entire 

spikelets which may have attached rachis segments, pedicels, and sterile 

spikelets in big bluestem, little bluestem, sand bluestem, yellow 

bluestem, bottlebrush-squirreltail, broomcorn, yellow indiangrass, 

johnsongrass, sorghum, sorghum- sudangrass, sorghum almum, sorgrass, and 

sudangrass;

    (4) Spikelet groups:

    (i) Spikelet groups that disarticulate as a unit in galletagrass;

    (ii) Spikelet groups that disarticulate as units with attached 

rachis and internodes in bluestems, side-oats grama, and yellow 

indiangrass;



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    (5) Fascicles of buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris) consisting of 

bristles and spikelets;

    (6) Burs of buffalograss (Buchloe dactyloides);

    (7) Bulblets of bulbous bluegrass (Poa bulbosa);

    (8) Multiple units as defined in Sec. 201.51a(b)(1).

    (c) Dry indehiscent fruits in the following plant families: 

Buckwheat (Polygonaceae), sunflower (Compositae), geranium 

(Geraniaceae), goosefoot (Chenopodiaceae), and valerian (Valerianaceae);

    (d) One- and two-seeded pods of small-seeded legumes (Leguminosae), 

burs of the burclovers (Medicago arabica, M. polymorpha), and pods of 

peanuts (Arachis hypogaea). (This does not preclude the shelling of 

small-seeded legumes for purposes of identification.) Pods of legumes 

normally containing more than two seeds, when occurring incidentally in 

the working sample, should be hulled if the kind is hulled when 

marketed;

    (e) Fruits or half fruits in the carrot family (Umbelliferae);

    (f) Nutlets in the following plant families: Borage (Boraginaceae), 

mint (Labiatae), and vervain (Verbenaceae);

    (g) ``Seed balls'' or portions thereof in multigerm beets, and 

fruits with accessory structures such as occur in other Chenopodiaceae 

and New Zealand spinach. For forage kochia refer to Sec. 201.48(j) and 

Sec. 201.51(a)(7).



[46 FR 53636, Oct. 29, 1981, as amended at 59 FR 64497, Dec. 14, 1994; 

65 FR 1707, Jan. 11, 2000]