96 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
McCarty, Ankona, Mr. H. J. Webber, and Mr. C. R. 
Dodge. 
Mr. Munroe writes that a plant of his figured by Mr. 
Dodge* grew finally to be eight feet tall and about 
thirty feet in circumference before it flowered. A single 
leaf about five feet long, weighed eight pounds. It 
matured at seven years of age and ‘shot up a pole 40 
feet high.’’ I have based my description of the inflor- 
escence upon his plant and aspecimen sent by Mr. Webber 
from the sub-tropical laboratory at Eustis. No capsules 
were reported from either place. 
To avoid further confusion in nomenclature, I refrain 
from giving a name to this plant until it is possible to 
obtain further data. Mr. Dodge states that it is allied to 
A. Americana, and that the fiber is similar in every respect, 
crinkly and elastic, and very white. He writes me that 
Mr. Smith of the Botanic Garden at Washington calls 
the plant A. pruinosa. I find, however, that A. pruinosa 
is described as having no pungent end-spine and is 
altogether a decidedly smaller plant, with different leaf 
proportions. Mr. Webber writes that it is cultivated at 
Eustis under the name of A. rigida recurvata. I am 
unable to trace any record of such a variety of A. rigida, 
and do not feel sure that the plant belongs to that species. 
Reasoner Brothers, of the Royal Palm Nurseries, of 
Oneca, Florida, catalogue and figure a plant under the 
name of A. recurvata, which I supposed might be identical, 
though they do not state whether the plant is a Florida 
Agave, or give any adequate description. Upon writing to 
them, they replied that the name is a misnomer, and that 
they do not know of the plant being so catalogued elsewhere. 
They suggest that it may be A. striata var. recurva. This it 
certainly is not. Upon receiving the plants last spring, I 
was struck by their resemblance to specimens in the Agave 
House here labeled A. miradorensis, and this resemblance 
* Report No. 5 (1893), 38. 
