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the remarks at p. 61 of the Furcraea article, so far as they suggest 
that the “A. mexicana” of Desfontaines’ may have been identical 
with the A. Vera-Cruz of Miller, must now be modified, if, as is 
probable, Desfontaines’ “ mexicana” was the plant still cultivated 
do undoubtedly affect the absolute size and cot iy oe oO 
vegetative organs—yet the proportions of the leaf, als 
the inflorescence, and the relative features of the floral parts are 
found, from study, to be very constant. 
The prickles on the margin of the leaf in A. lurida are almost 
garnet-coloured when young, turning deep chestnut in age; in 
. Vera-Cruz they are chestnut when young, turning when old a 
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