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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,

Fig. 1. About the Mediterranean

  1. A lecture before the Academy of Science of St. Louis, delivered October 17, 1910.