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AGAVES OF THE UNITED STATES. 69 
arum, ii. pl. 878; Lamarck, Encyclop. Method. i. pl. 235, 
fig. 2.— Maryland southward to Florida, westward to 
Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri and Texas. Mr. Nealley 
reports it as abundant around Corpus Christi, Texas.— 
Plates 26 and 27. 
Var. TIGRINA Engelm.— Stout, with large purple-spotted 
leaves, and depressed globose capsules.— Trans. St. 
Louis Acad. iii. 802, Collected Writings, 306.— Bluffton, 
South Carolina, Dr. Mellichamp. In one spot only, —a 
tongue of partly brackish land, extending out into the salt 
mud and marsh under dwarfed live oaks, cassine and saw 
palmetto, on the decayed shells mixed with sand and earth 
of what appears to be an Indian oyster-heap.* This form, 
discovered by Dr. Mellichamp twenty years ago, still per- 
sists in the locality indicated. Plants sent to the Garden 
by Dr. Mellichamp early last spring began to send up new 
leaves very soon. These were green at first but began to 
develop purple spots in May. Plate 63, Fig. 1, shows the 
plant in its early growth. 
Dr. Engelmannf mentions a plant which year after year 
produced second and sometimes third flowers on the pedi- 
cels. In the Engelmann and Gray herbaria there are spec- 
imens of a monstrous form sent by Dr. Short from the 
bank of Kentucky River near Elk Lick in 1831, 1833, and 
1834. These plants have very large broad leaves; their 
flowers are thick and enlarged, with nearly cylindrical 
tubes, and their enlarged filaments cohere slightly by the 
edges, giving the effect of another much elongated tube. 
Flowers collected by Mr. Bush in Shannon County, Mis- 
souri, have filaments bent forward and even a little twisted 
at base. 
The fragrance of the flowers is very persistent and was 
observed by Miss Johnson while making the plate from 
* Dr. Mellichamp, in letter to Dr. Engelmann, Jan. 22d, 1876. 
+ Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 296. Coll. Writings, 303. 
