Opservation (by R. Bye): 
Curnuanua: Municipios de Guazapares y Chinipas, between Wasa- 
chi and La Paz, ca. 5000. Scattered plants in the lower section of 
the mixed oak and pine forest. The leaves are a light yellow-green. 
July 23, 1974. 
A gave pacifica 'Trel., U.S. Natl. Herb. Contrib. 28: 
118. 1920. 
Western Tarahumara: GUSIME (maguey of the woods 
or stick maguey) 
Mexican: mescal del monte (wild plant) 
mescal casero (cultivated plant) 
Found in the lower parts of the arid sub-tropical bar- 
rancas in short thorn forest, fave pacifica produces 
sucker shoots which are transplanted near dwellings in 
the lower oak (Quercus albocincta) zone of the middle 
barranca zone. Considered the most delicious and diffi- 
cult to collect in the field, this species is often grown 
near the houses. It also became popular with the 
Spaniards and Mexicans who settled in the deep can- 
yons and later transplanted and cultivated it. 
The hearts of the cultivated plants are larger than 
those of the wild plants. The baked hearts are sweet and 
consumed baked or in the form of fermented drink. The 
flowers are eaten cooked or in the form of tortillas. The 
fibres from the leaves provide cordage and thread. 
Specimen: Curmuanvua: Municipios de Guazapares y Chinipas, Cu- 
sirare, ca. 3000 ft. Cultivated plants, whose suckers originated from 
the wild in the lower parts of the barranca, in a hollow at the base 
of a field ‘‘trinchera’’ or stone retaining wall near a ranchito, Plants 
about 5 feet high with the ‘‘quiotes’’ cut off. Associated with such 
woody plants as /pomoea arborescens and Randia sp. Nov. 8, 19738. 
Bye, Burgess and Mares 5796. 
Opservation (by R. Bye): 
Curmuanua: Municipios de Guazapares y Chinipas, below La Paz, 
ea, 3500 ft. Cultivated plants along astone fence and margin of field 
near house surrounded by a peach orchard. In the lower oak (Quer- 
cus albocineta) zone. July 25, 1974. 
