2 ADDISONIA 
the genus to which it really belonged. Notwithstanding the 
apparent abundance of the plant in its natural range, it has been 
collected but relatively few times. 
The specimen from which the accompanying plate was made was 
collected by D. T. MacDougal near Austin, Texas, in 1902. The 
plant flowered in the conservatories of the New York Botanical 
Garden in February, 1905. 
This plant is known, locally, as “ bunch-grass,’ ’ and also as 
““bear-grass.” The latter name, however, is mostly associated with 
a related plant of the same region, a species of Dasylirion. 
Joun K. SMALL. 
EXPLANATION OF Piate. Fig. 1—Habit sketch of a young =e Fig. 2. 
~—Young plant, showing inflorescence in more detail. Fi ig. 3.—Bud, x 3. 
Fig. 4—Flower, X 3. Fig. 5.—Pistil, x 3 
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