A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass . growth. The whole series was referred to the botanist,Dr. Baker, who is an eminent authority on this important family of plants, and who de-cided the species tobe new. Dr. Bakersdescription of theplant, reproducedfroirithe Kew B ulletinfor July and August,1892 (pages 183-184),is appended at theclose of this is a matter ofs
A report on the leaf fibers of the United States detailing results of recent investigations relating to Florida sisal hemp, the false sisal hemp plant of Florida, and other fiber-producing agaves; bowstring hemp, pineapple fiber, New Zealand flax, and bear-grass . growth. The whole series was referred to the botanist,Dr. Baker, who is an eminent authority on this important family of plants, and who de-cided the species tobe new. Dr. Bakersdescription of theplant, reproducedfroirithe Kew B ulletinfor July and August,1892 (pages 183-184),is appended at theclose of this is a matter ofsurprise to me thatthis plant has so longbeen confounded withthe true sisal, Avhenthe two forms differso greatly in habit andin general appear-ance. The men who Fig. 4.—Section of false sisal hemp leaf (Agave decipiens). accompanied me ill my investigation work along the keys and up the coast, on the mainland,so soon learned the difference in the appearance of the two forms thatthey were often able to state by means of the ships glass as we sailedby whether plants growing on the shore were the true or the false spe-cies. Throwing out its mass of leaves from the top of a footstalk some-times 6 feet high, which is the habit of the mature plant, the leaves28. U. S. Dept of Agriculture. Fiber Report No. 5 Plate IV.
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