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perhaps a cross between A. ingens and A. Salmiana. It is a very 
stately plant, producing many suckers. 
A. neglecta. 
Was sent by Prof. Trelease in Beievem Der, 1911. It is the large 
wild Agave of Florida. 
A. parrasana. 
This was collected in 1905 on the Sierra de Par by Mr. 
C. A. Purpus. The three plants on which the species was 
founded have not yet flowered. 
A. paucifolia. 
In 1905 we received several plants through Mr. C. A. Purpus 
from Mexico, without further indication of the locality. One of 
them flowered in the summer of 1910, and proved to be this 
species. Some specimens have leaves of a fine brownish violet hue. 
A. potatorum. 
A plant received under this name from the Botanic Garden at 
Munich, in 1909, seems to agree in every detail with the original 
description. It is a small plant, allied to A. Scolymus, and quite 
different from the one erroneously known in gardens as A. pota- 
torum,* which is in fact A. coarctata Jacobi. 
A. portoricensis. 
This, the ‘‘ Cocuiza,’”’ of Porto Rico, was sent to us by Prof. 
Trelease, April 17th, 1908. It is viviparous. The plant was 
- originally found at Sabanah Grande, at the western end of the 
island. 
A. Pringlez. 
Under this name I found several plants in the garden, ap- 
parently all grown from the same seeds, but differing greatly 
among themselves. One specimen flowered twice and its flowers 
correspond with those of A. Peacocki as figured on plate 7757 
in Bot. Mag., except that the segments were not blotched as 
shown on the plate. Our plants are probably of hybrid origin. 
The peduncle, flowers, and capsules seem to present the mixed 
characters of the sections Littea and Huagave. 
A. pumila. 
This is the smallest of the genus,+ never growing taller than 
linch or 14 inch; it produces some offsets, but has never shown any 
tendency to flower. The plant agrees exactly with Prof. Baker’s 
description, except that it belongs to his section ‘‘ Marginate,” 
and not to the “Submarginate.”’ It was given us by M. le 
* See Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1894, i. p. 628, with Supplement figure of 
May 19th, 1894. 
+ See also Wm. Trelease, ‘‘ The Smallest of the Century Plants,’’ figs.5 and 
14 (in Popular Science Monthly, December, 1910). 
