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 y ' UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
 . < Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 B.E.P.Q.--395 June 1, 1936. 
 
 LIST OF ARTICLES EXEMPT FROM CERTIFICATION 
 
 REQUIREMENTS UMJER THE JAPANESE BEETLE 
 
 QUARANTINE (QUARANTINE NO. 48) 
 
 In accordance with the proviso in Notice of Quarantine No. 49, 
 as revised, effective March 16, 1936, the following articles, the inter- 
 state movement of which is not considered to constitute a risk of 
 Japanese beetle dissemination, are exempted from the restrictions of the 
 regulations of this quarantine! 
 
 Balsam pillows, when composed of balsam needles only. 
 
 Cut orchids. 
 
 Dyed moss and dyed sand, when heat treated, and when 
 
 so labeled on the outside of each container of 
 
 such materials. 
 Floral designs or "set pieces", including wreaths, sprays, 
 
 casket covers, and all formal florists* designs other 
 
 than bouquets and cut flowers. 
 Greensand or greensand marl, when treated and so labeled 
 
 on the outside of each container of such materials. 
 Herbarium specimens, when dried, pressed and treated, and 
 
 when so labeled on the outside of each container of 
 
 such materials. 
 Imported peat when shipped in the unopened original 
 
 container and labeled as to each container with the 
 
 country of origin. 
 Manure, peat, compost, or humus, when dehydrated and 
 
 either shredded, ground, pulverized, or compressed, 
 
 and when so labeled on the outside of each commercial 
 
 container of such materials. 
 Orchid plants, when growing exclusively in Osmunda fibre. 
 Mushroom spawn, in brick, flake, or pure culture form. 
 Osmunda fibre, Osmundine, or orchid peat ( Osmunda cinnamomea , 
 
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 Resurrection plant or bird 1 s-nest moss ( Selaginella lepidophylla * 
 
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 Sheet moss (Cal liergon schriberi ) and ( Thuridium recognitum ) . 
 Sphagnum moss, bog-moss, or peat moss, when dried and 
 
 baled ( Sphagnaceae ) . 
 Submerged aquatic plants, including 
 
 C rytocoryne spp. 
 
 Eel-grass or tape-grass ( Vallisneria spiralis ) 
 
 False loosestrife ( Ludwi g i a - V-il e r 1 1 i i ) 
 
 Fish grass, Washington plant, or Fanwort 
 ( Cabomba carol iniana ) 
 
 Hornv/ort or coon tail ( Ceratophyllum demersum ) 
 
 Water milfoil ( Myriophyllur a spp, ) 
 
 Water weed, ditch-moss, water thyme, or enacharis 
 (Elodee canadensis) . 
 
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