. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. 3 feet long, 3â5inches broad at the middle, narrowed to 2â3 inchesabove the base, very bright green, the base i inch, thecentre -^V inch thick, the face deeply channelled, theborder much raised and tip often recurved, the sub-pungent chestnut-brown end-spine about h inch long, thedistant brown deltoid uncinate teeth i\â^ inch 8â10 feet high, 2I- inches thick at the in a deltoid panicle, of which the lower branchesare 9â12 inches long, and bear a hundred flowers each ;pedicels
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. 3 feet long, 3â5inches broad at the middle, narrowed to 2â3 inchesabove the base, very bright green, the base i inch, thecentre -^V inch thick, the face deeply channelled, theborder much raised and tip often recurved, the sub-pungent chestnut-brown end-spine about h inch long, thedistant brown deltoid uncinate teeth i\â^ inch 8â10 feet high, 2I- inches thick at the in a deltoid panicle, of which the lower branchesare 9â12 inches long, and bear a hundred flowers each ;pedicels 3â12 lines long. Perianth, including the 15â18lines ovary, 2â2i inches long ; tube greenish yellow, 2â4lines ; segments linear-oblong, bright yellow, ^â1 inchlong. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianthtube, the filaments less than twice as long as the seg-ments, Capsule ovoid-prismatic, cuspidate, i-^âif inchlong, 7â8 lines in diameter; seeds J inch broad. A native of the West Indies. I see no reason todoubt that, as stated by Salm-Dyck, this is the plant. Fig. 150.âagave vivipara. a Mexican plant introduced by Karwinski, and ^ Jacobi, Monogr., p. 257, to belong ^ Haworth, which I know only from avery short diagnosis, may perhaps fall in this vicinity. 98. A. laxa, Zuccarini; Kunth., Enum.,vol. v.,p. 838 ;Jacobi, Monogr., p. 146, fig. 151.âShortly 50â60 in a rosette, ensiform, reaching a lengthof 2â2^ feet, 18â20 hues broad at the middle, i inchbroad above the base, narrowed very gradually from themiddle to the tip, bright green, slightly glaucous towardsthe base in an early stage, the base ^V inch, the centrefV inch thick, the firm dark chestnut-brown tip about\ inch long, the distant minute lanceolate-deltoid browncurved spines about i line long. Inflorescence unknown. History unknown; first noticed in Salm-DycksHortHs Dyckiamism 1S34. I strongly suspect it tobe a variety of A. vivipara. My notes were tak
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