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AGAVES OF THE UNITED STATES. 83 
The Texas plant is less compact than the other forms ; 
its leaves are very rigid, oblong or spatulate, with a more 
or less acute, sometimes very acuminate apex, 18 to 30 cm. 
long, 9 to 12 cm. wide, bluish-green, cinereous, very glau- 
cous; end-spine stout, 30 to 45 mm. long, purplish or 
reddish-black; horny margin of same color, occasionally 
traceable as a narrow line extending to base; prickles 
prominent, large, lanceolate, 7 to 9 mm. long, turned for- 
ward and upward ; scape 25 to 50 dm. high, branches often 
ascending, flowers (fresh) 35 to 44 mm. from base of ovary 
to tips of lobes; ovary 18 to 23 mm. long ; tube 2 to3 mm. 
long; lobes 15 to 16 mm. long ; filaments 35 mm. ; anthers 14 
mm. long. Style at length slightly exceeding filaments. 
Perianth, filaments, anthers, styles and stigmas yellow, ovar- 
ies green or greenish-yellow. Odor pleasant, not especially 
strong. Blooms in May and early June.— Lemaire, ex Ja- 
cobi, in Hamb. Gartenz. xx. (1864) 550. — Western Texas 
in Chenate region, Chisos, Guadalupe and Sierra Blanca 
Mountains, to Fort Davis.— Plate 35. The end-spines are 
sometimes much elongated. A plant was observed at 
Sierra Blanca upon which they measured from three to 
four inches. The few flowers which came under my 
observation were small and of a bright yellow color. Dr. 
Havard states that the glaucous leaved form of Agave 
served the Indians for Mescal, and that the pits for cook- 
ing it are to be seen in the Guadalupe mountains. At the 
Columbian Exposition this plant was labeled A. Parryi. 
In Dr. Coulter’s Texan Botany A. Parryi is included in 
the flora. The plant is certainly not the one figured by 
Todaro in Hort. Bot. Panormitanus as A. applanata, but 
his figure does not correspond with Jacobi’s description, 
nor represent the plant commonly cultivated under that 
name. 
Var. Parryrt. Mature plant more compact, globose, 
large, many specimens measuring from one to one and a 
half meters in diameter, and having a central pyramidal 
