This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...60 mm. long and twice as long as the segments. Capsules rather narrowly oblong, 15-20 by 40-50 mm., stipitate and slightly beaked; seeds 4 by 7 mm. Not known to be bulbiferous. Greater Antilles. Northern Cuba. Specimens examined: Cuba. Matanzas, the source of the type (Britton and Wilson, 77, 1903). Cojlmar, near ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...60 mm. long and twice as long as the segments. Capsules rather narrowly oblong, 15-20 by 40-50 mm., stipitate and slightly beaked; seeds 4 by 7 mm. Not known to be bulbiferous. Greater Antilles. Northern Cuba. Specimens examined: Cuba. Matanzas, the source of the type (Britton and Wilson, 77, 1903). Cojlmar, near Guanabacoa (Trelease, 1, 1907; Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 6217, 1910; Wilson, 9543, 1910). Cayo Romano (Shafer, 2770, 1909). A form of this species, with typical foliage but flowers only 55 mm. long, ovary shorter than the perianth, and filaments but 35 mm. long, which occurs on the hills near Chornera, Havana (Britton, CoweU, and Leon, 9678, 1911) may be known as var. breviflora. Though long disposed to place A. Offoyana among the Antillares in association with A. WiMdingii, I have become convinced that if really a Cuban species, as was supposed when it was described, it should be allied with that native to Matanzas, which must be taken for A. LegreUiana, although mature plants differ much in prickle characters from those described for the type. On the other hand, the characters of this common species of the northern coast are so much less in accord with those published for A. Offoyana as to prevent the use of this as clearly the earlier name for the plant. Agave longipes n. sp. Plate 63. Foliage of the broader-leaved forms of A. sobolifera, but the often gray sometimes much compressed conical spine more heavy and persistently flattened on the upper face and less involute, and the narrowly triangular prickles often appressed-recurved. Pedicels 20 mm. long. Flowers yellow, larger, 60-70 mm. long; ovary 30-40 mm. long, exceeding the perianth, oblong-fusiform; tube openly conical, 6-8 mm. deep; segments 5-6 by 20-25 mm., shorter than the ovary; fila...
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Washington 1913 first edition. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences Volume XI. Hardcover. Large 4to. 55p. plus Plates A-E and 116 fullpage photo plates, 7 text figures, cloth. VG, cloth worn off extreme corner of top righthand cover. No ownership marks.
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