THE
POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY
JANUARY, 1911
THE SMALLEST OF THE CENTURY PLANTS[1] |
By Professor WILLIAM TRELEASE
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
SELECTION of these particular plants from the very large number that have occupied my attention for the last ten years is based on a recognition of the fact that it is extremes—the largest and smallest,
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Fig. 1. About the Mediterranean
- ↑ A lecture before the Academy of Science of St. Louis, delivered October 17, 1910.