WOOTON" AND STANDLEY FLORA OF NEW MEXICO. 145 



Type locality: Copper Mines, New Mexico. 



Range: New Mexico and Arizona, southward into Mexico. 



New Mexico: San Ignacio; Hop Canyon; Las Vegas Mountains; Mogollon Moun- 

 tains; Burro Mountains; Black Range; White and Sacramento mountains. Moun- 

 tains, in the Transition Zone. 



Order 14. AMARYLLIDALES. 



KEY TO THE FAMILIES. 



Stamens 6; leaves not 2-ranked 26. AMARYLLIDACEAE (p. 145). 



Stamens 3; leaves 2-ranked 27. IRIDACEAE (p. 117). 



26. AMARYLLIDACEAE. Amaryllis Family. 



Perennials with bulbs or corms or sometimes with fibrous mots; leaves basal; flowers 

 regular or irregular, solitary or corymbose; andrcecium of 6 stamens inserted on an 

 epigynous disk or at the throat of the tube opposite the sepals and petals ; ova ry i 1 1 I'erior, 

 3-celled; styles united; fruit a 3-celled capsule or berry. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Leaves spiny-toothed and spine-tipped; plants with elon- 

 gated caudices 1. Agave (p. 145). 



Leaves not spiny-toothed; plants with bulbs 2. Atamosco (p. 1 17). 



1. AGAVE L. Century plant. 



Long-lived perennials with a cluster of numerous thick fleshy basal leaves and a 

 tall flower stalk, this either nearly spicate or paniculate and -with numerous thick 

 divergent branches; perianth persistent, tubular-funnellonn, parted unto numerous 

 narrow, nearly equal divisions; anthers linear, versatile; fruit an oblong coriaceous 

 3-celled capsule containing numerous flat black seeds. 



Agon urn, i inula is an introduced species very common in cultivation in the southern 

 part of the State. It is the common ''maguey'' of the Mexicans, who use the sap taken 

 from the developing flower stalk for making "pulque." "mescal," and "tequila." It 

 is not cultivated Ear north < v f has Cruces, and even here the leaves are sometimes 

 frosted in the winter and rarely the whole plant killed. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves not spiny-margined, filiferous, 1 cm. broad or Less, tapi r- 



ing upward '. 1 . . I . tchottii. 



I bearing hooked Bpinee along the margins, not fllifen 

 I cm. wide or more, generally broadest a limit t lie middle. 

 Leaves few, i<> to 15, 20 t<> :!<> cm. Long, yellowish green; 

 panicle with very shorl branches, spikelike in appear- 

 ance 2. .1 . A chuguilla. 



Leaves more numerous, 30 or more, 20 to LOO cm. long, deep 

 green or bluish green, glaucous; panii lee with spread- 

 ing Longer branches. 

 Stamen- inserted near the middle of the corolla tube; 

 Leaves deep green, 6 to L2 cm. wide, generally 10 

 to iiit cm. Long, sometimes much Longi r. 



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