ISBN: 9781130678680

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 292 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 292 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.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. 1878 Excerpt: . . . or sharply scabrous, in age sometimes loosely rugose. (Species difficult to discriminate. ) i--Calyx-lobes narrowly linear-lanceolate or linear, acutish, all over hispid and hirsute: leaves linear or lanceolate. A. echinta, Gray, 1. Stem strict, 2 or 3 feet high: corolla light yellow, about twice the length of the fulvous-hispid calyx, little dilated at the throat; the limb 2 or 3 lines in diameter: immature nutlets with the strongly convex and carnate back muricate with soft slender prickles and intermediate scabrous points, not rugose. --S. E. California in the Mohave region, Cooper. . A. intermedia, Fisch. and Meyer, 1. A foot or two high, branching: bristles even of the calyx whitish or barely fulvous: leaves from oblong lanceolate to linear: corolla not above 3 lines long, little exceeding the calyx; the small limb hardly at all plaited: nutlets very convex and carinate on the back, inurieate-scabrous and at maturity obliquely more or lees rugose. --DC. I. e. ; Gray, Bot. Calif. I. e. A. lycopsoides. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 54, in part; and of gardens. Benthamia lycopsoides, I. indi. (Introd. Nat. Syst. ) in Hort. Soc. Lond. 1828, and c, thence becoming A. lycopsoides of cultivation, but probably not of Lehm. --California and V. Nevada to the borders of Brit. Columbia; a common and variable species. . A. speotbilis, Fisch. and Meyer, 1. . Mostly slender, a span (when depauperate) to a foot high: leaves mostly linear: tube of the bright orange corolla twice or thrice the length of the linear lobes of the ferrugineous-hispid calyx, nearly half inch long, or sometimes shorter; the throat enlarging, and the limb conspicuously plaited in the bud (a third to half inch wide); anthers when high protruded from the throat: nut. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<