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herbarium specimens and viable seeds of the plant. This 
Hlesperaloe appears to be the same as the herbarium material 
referred to, though neither foliage nor flowers accompany 
the capsules first collected, and the few flowers distrib- 
uted by Mr. Pringle from further south are not in very 
satisfactory condition while the marginal threads, which 
are slender in the many plants seen by me, are very thick, 
triquetrous, wavy and rigid on his leaves. 
This species, the at first very concave leaves of which 
may be as much as 40 mm, wide and nearly 2 m. long, 
finely striate-grooved on the back and with long con- 
spicuous marginal fibers, as in the other representatives 
of the genus, produces a divaricately few-branched, tall 
panicle, on which, fascicled in the axils of the bracts, are 
borne the oblong ephemeral flowers. Unlike those of 
H. parviflora and its variety Engelmanni, both of which have 
pedicels and flowers ranging from a creamy tint through 
salmon-color to typically a beautiful shade of red sugges- 
tive of Aloe and Gasteria, the flowers and short pedicels of 
this species are noted by Mr. Pringle as being << purplish, 
shading to whitish,’’ and in the plants observed about Pe- 
yotes were of a dingy purplish green and-decidedly glau- 
cous, the spreading flowers being about 25 mm. long, with 
stamens and style included and of about equal length, 
and the anthers 5 to 7 mm. long. The globose to broadly 
oblong solid-beaked capsules are strongly transversely 
reticulate-veined, and the thin black seeds are like those of 
the other species. 
In 1898 Mr. Baker described, under the specific name 
Davyi, a green-flowered Hesperaloe from ‘+ California? ’”’ 
which had been sent him by Mr. J. Burt Davy from the 
garden of the University of California at Berkeiey. Mr. 
Davy tells me that no record is found of the source of the 
seeds from which this was grown. Dr. F. Franceschi, of 
Santa Barbara, California, states that two original plants 
were raised, one of which flowered in 1898, yielding the 
