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ASCIDIA IN GASTERIA AND AGAVE, 
BY J. ARTHUR HARRIS. 
In the summer of 1905 Mr. C. H. Thompson, in charge 
of the collection of succulents at the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, called my attention to a peculiarity of two of 
several young plants of Gasteria grown from seed received 
2. G. BRACHYPHYLLA, X 1. 
1. G. BRACHYPHYLLA, X 1. 3. G. BRACHYPHYLLA, X 1. 
from the botanical garden at Palermo under the name G. 
brachyphylla. 
The general appearance of the abnormal plants is shown 
in figures 1 and 2, while for the sake of comparison a nor- 
mal specimen from the same lot is shown in figure 3. Fig- 
ure 1 represents the anomaly atits best. The four earlier 
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