Identifier: gardenerschronic81877lond (find matches)
Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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g. in) ;.-/. dealbata, Lemaire; Jacobi, Monogr., p. 152.—Acaulesceot. Leaves 80—100 in a dense rosette, linear-tnsiforni, 1^—3 feet long, \—i inch broad above the li inch long, inserted near the throat of the tube ;anthers \—% inch long. A native of Mexico, introduced about 1S60, andnow widely spread in cultivation. There is a colouredfigure and full description from a specimen that floweredin the Regents Park in 1S68. A. dealbata of Lemaireis simply a variety with leaves more glaucous than inthe type. It flowered some time ago at Reigate, wherea coloured drawing was made. The species is one of as long as the limb ; tube very short, campanulate ; seg-ments oblong. Stamens little exserted, inserted lowdown in the tube ; anthers ; inch long. North-west Arizona, between the San FrancscoMountains and Colorado River, at an altitude of4000 feet; discovered by Dr. J. S. Newberry inMarch, 184S. Not yet introduced into cultivation,and known to me only through Dr. EngelmannsMonograph.
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Fig. III.—AGAVE DASYLIRIOIDES, dilated base, where it is h inch thick, and i inch broad,narrowed gradually from the middle to a short brownpungent point, pale glaucous green, rigidly coriaceous,stiff or in the longer forms falcate, flat on the face, andnearly so on the back ; 1^ inch thick in the centre, finelystriated vertically, the edge minutely denticulate. Scape6 feet long, densely clothed with spreading subulatebract-leaves, the lower ones i foot long. Spike as longas the scape, often decurved ; lower bracts much longerthan the flowers ; pedicels obsolete. Perianth 18—21lines long, including the ovary ; ovary oblong trigonous,\—\ inch long ; segments oblong, yellow inside, equal-ling in length the broadly funnel-shaped tube. Filaments the btst marked of the genus, resembling striata bothin the fine ribbing and minute serrulation of its leaves, ** Surface of the leaf not ribbed ; edge not serrulate.59. A. (Euagave) Netvherryi, Engelm. Notes, p. 21.—Acaulescent. Leaves ens

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