Agar. Agar or agar-agar is a gelatinous substance derived by boiling a polysaccharide in red algae, where it accumulates in the cell walls of agarophyte and serves as the primary structural support for the algae's cell walls.gar. Agar or agar-agar is a gelatinous substance derived by boiling a polysaccharide in red algae, where it accumulates in the cell walls of agarophyte and serves as the primary structural support for the algae's cell walls.
Photo by Lisa Powers. Description: Typical timber rattlesnakes measure anywhere from 36-58 inches (91-147 cm) in length with Klauber (1956) reporting the largest timber rattlesnake ever recorded to be 74  inches (189.23 cm) collected near New Orleans, LA in the 1940s. Timber rattlesnakes are the 2nd largest venomous snake found in the eastern United States.
Adult timber rattlesnakes are typically 36 to 48 inches long with a small number reaching up to 72 inches in length. Individuals of this species have the distinctively broad, flat, triangularly shaped heads and vertically slit pupils that are characteristics shared by all of the venomous snake species in Pennsylvania.