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the inner valve about 6 lines long, the outer usually longer : flowers 

 yellow, the acute segments 3 lines long : capsule obloug-obovate, more 

 or less narrowed at base, 2 or 3 lines long. — At San Luis Potosi 

 (527 Schaffner) ; 881 Parry & Palmer. 



Hypoxis DECU3IBENS, Linn. At San Luis Potosi (545 Schaffner) ; 

 871 Parry & Palmer. Collected by Mr. Lemmon in the Huachuca 

 Mountains, Arizona. 



CooPERiA Drummondii, Herb. At Laredo, Texas (1304). 



Zephyranthes Texana, Herb. {Hippeastrum Texanum, Baker.) 

 At San Antonio, Texas (1305). 



Zephyranthes concolor, Benth. & Hook. {Hippeastrum con- 

 color, Baker.) At Morales, San Luis Potosi (540*^ Schaffner) ; 868 

 Parry & Palmer. 



Zephyranthes pallida, Roem. At San Luis Potosi (541 

 Schaffner) ; 869 Parry «fe Palmer. 



Zephyranthes carinata, Herb. At Guanajuato (Duges). 

 Known as " Mayo." 



Zephyranthes aurea. Distinguished from Z. Texana by the 

 shorter and stouter peduncle (rarely over ^ inch long), the yellow 

 perianth of the same color outside or usually greenish, the capsule 

 much larger (G lines long), and the larger seeds (3 lines long). — 

 From Texas to Arizona and Mexico. At Laredo, on the Rio Grande 

 (1303), and at San Luis Potosi (540 Schaffner) ; 870 Parry & Palmer. 

 Collected also at Fort Davis, Texas, by Dr. J. B. Girard ; in New 

 Mexico by Wright (1904), and near Silver City by E. L. Greene; 

 in Arizona, near Fort Huachuca, by J. G. Lemmon ; and in Mexico 

 by Gregg (491). 



Bomaria ACUTiFOLiA, Herb. At Guanajuato (Duges). 



Bravoa geminiflora, Llav. & Lex. Same locality (Duges), 



Beschorneria tdbiflora, Kunth. Li the Morales Mountains, 

 San Luis Potosi (504 vSchaffiier) ; 866 Parry & Palmer. 



Agave maculosa, Hook. At Guadalupe, Texas (1306). 



Agave guttata, Jac. & Bouche. In the Morales Mountains (505 

 Schaff'uer) ; 865 Parry &, Palmer. The specimens accord with the 

 description given by Baker (Gard. Chron. 2. 8. 808), except that the 

 leaves are distinctly serrulate and the flowers smaller (less than an 

 inch long, the filaments an inch long). Known as " Lechuguilla." 



Agave variegata, Jacobi. In the San Miguelito Mountains (506 

 Schaffiier). Filaments (about 15 lines long) scarcely more than half 

 as long as described and figured, and the leaves even more distinctly 

 serrulate than in the last. Also known as " Lechuguilla." 



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