316 NOTES ON AGAVE. 
Page 310. A. deserti. In characterizing the foliage, 1 was led into the too common mistake of adopting the 
individual oe of a single individual as ‘bie of the species. Full grown leaves are at least 15-20 inches long, 
inches wide above the base. The terminal spine is compressed and narrow-grooved only in the young, not 
fully eat leaf; in = adult it is terete-triangular with a wide and shallow excavation above. — The locality is 
Vallecito, not “ Valcitr 
Page 314. A. seule To the liberality of Mr. Henry Shaw we are indebted for the fine photographs 
of this species which grace this number of our Transactions.* They were taken by Mr. J. C. Parker of San. [ii] 
Diego, last January. Plate 2 represents a group of these plants on the mesa near the coast of the oki which 
is seen in the distance; one specimen is in full bloom, others flowered in November and are now bearing fruit 
sparingly. Decaying old plants are seen around, and young ones sprouting. The seal arrangement of the 
short broad leaves is beautifully displayed ; the bright spiny teeth appear almost white from the effect of reflected 
light. The scape is conspicuously covered by the broad, triangular, imbricated bracts. The figures are about one 
twenty-fourth of the natural size, or half an inch to the foot. 
Fig. 2. 
PLATE 3. 
Plate 3 shows, in Fig. 1, a young plant ; its leaves are more deeply concave than they are later, and therefore 
m to be narrower ; the ‘eat and their impressions on the adjoining leaves are remarkably well develope ne- 
sith of natural size. — Fig. 2 is a cluster of flowers, exhibiting a densely compacted mass, unfortunately not distinet 
enough in its details; but the outlines of the cluster, the enveloping bracts, the very long, mostly vertical, anthers, 
and the exserted teles, are well rendered. It is two and a half times less than the natural size. 
Page 322, line 1. In the Berlin botanic garden an Agave attenuata is cultivated which has a trunk 6 feet high ; 
it is said to have grown 4 feet within the last 18 years. 
* These photographs are reproduced, as well as possible, by the Ives process, on this and the preceding page. — Eps. 
