NOTES 
ON AGAVE. 
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I wish also to direct the attention of observers to the time and nature of the secretion of honey 
in the lower part of the flower-tube. 
The inflorescence of those Agaves of the second section which are said to bear 1 or 3 or 6 to 8 
flowers in a fascicle requires fur- 
ther investigation. 
A careful examin- [323 (35)] 
ation of the young 
(forming) inflorescences of the 
third section will disclose the true 
nature of their arrangement. 
Another point which claims 
the attention of observers, is the 
place and time of the formation 
of bulblets in the proliferous 
Agaves. 
ADDITION TO ARTICLE ON 
Lc. 1876, pp. 370-1; pp. i--ii. OF REPRINT. 
Additions and correc- [i] 
tions have accumulated in 
the interval between printing and 
publication. 
e 294. Itrequires further and 
extensive observations in the field and 
in the garden to ascertain the limits of 
variability of the edges of the leaf and 
its aculeate-toothed margins. Culti- 
vators have already discovered con- 
siderable latitude in this respect in 
plants raised from seeds from the same 
parent. 
Page 302. Var. tigrina does not 
grow 7n salt-marshes, but was found by 
Dr. Mellichamp, “in one spot only, on 
a tongue of partly age land, ex- 
tending out into the- salt-m an 
ican under dwarfed ‘fee siki. Caiains 
and saw-palmetto, on the decayed shells, 
mi eaese sand and earth, of —_ seems 
to be an old Indian oyster-heap” 
iis 304. A. falcata. The aa 
introduced A. Hystrix of the Belgian 
nurseries may have to be referred to this species; native country and flowers, as usual, unknown, 
Page 305. A. Schottii (better than Schotti, as printed). 
PLATE 2, 
It is proper to add that A. geminiflora, Gawl., 
the 
Bonapartea juncea of the gardens, is a very different plant, and has nothing to do with Schottii, except that both licheuia 
to the same section of the genus. 
