lo2 o3. AMARYLT.1DACE.E. o4. JUNCACE.?^. 



branches shorter tlian stamens, delicately fringed; filaments 

 free in the upper part, anthers small, oblong, with parallel 

 cells. — Roadside near Lvndoch. Oct. 



53.— AMARYLLIDACE/E. 



except that the stamens are 6, and the 



Famih- 



Like Iiidacecc 

 anthers open inwards. 



Agave, L. 

 (Greek agaue, wonderful.) 



Amnlcan 

 flower until 





Aloe. Large, 

 several vears 



L Agfave ainerica.na, L 



steniless perennial, \^"hicli does not 

 old ; leaves 25-40, in a dense 

 radical rosette, 1-2 m. (3-6 ft.) 

 long, oblanceolate, thick and 

 fleshy, glaucous - green, .some- 

 times with a yellow border, 

 ending in a stout rigid .spine, 

 the edges of the leaf bordered by 

 di.stant, sharp, recurved teeth; 

 flowers large, erect, yellowish, 

 in corymbose panicles on hori- 

 zontal branches, forming a long 

 loose, compound panicle on the 

 upper part of a stout peduncle 

 7-10 m. '22-32 ft.) high; perianth 

 deeply divided into oblong, sub- 

 equal segments ; stamens twice 

 as long as segments ; capsule 

 oblong, woody. 



Planted for hedges and now 

 naturalised in many parts of the 

 State ; incieasing ))y suckers. - 

 Nov. -Feb. — ^lexico ; called (\'ii- 

 iiir]i Plant in the United States, 

 from the old belief that it flow- 

 ered only once in 100 years, 

 I'ifd and MufiiK'n in Spanish .Vnierica. Tlu 

 from the peduncle before llowt ring, and 

 makes an intoxicating drink f/xtlqur). 



Family 54.— JUNCACE/E. 



1. JUNCUS, L. 



I'erianili of (i scai'ious .segments in 2 rows, spreading 

 in llower and then appressed on the fruit; style 1. with 3 

 slender stigmatic l)ranches; ovary free; cap.sule with 3 (often 

 incomp!et(0 cells, opening by 3 valves, and containing 

 numerons minute seeds. Herl)s with naii'ow ]ea\"es. .scarious 

 and sheathing at ba.se ; bracteoles 1--2 at base of each flower. 

 Stom-lcaves alxsent ; flowers in a terminal 



cluster 7. ca pi tut us 1 



Stem-leaves present ; flowers solitary along 



the branches /. hn Junius 2 



Agave americana. 



juice, extracted 

 tlum ferment-ed, 



