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LIX.—FALSE SISAL OF FLORIDA. 
(Agave decipiens, Baker.) 
[K. B., 1892, pp. E lig 
Ae pigidas van SAN in every respect oue to the plants now 
so sorn plan n the Bahamas, Turks Islands, Jamaica, and elsewhere. 
Amongst the Floridan plants Mr. Charles Richards Dodge, of the United 
States ‘Department of Agriculture, found here and there some plants 
which were evidently not true isal. or instance, “at Juno, about 
“ ten miles further south (from Jupiter), at the head of Lake Worth, 
“ I found another fine nursery of perhaps a hundred thousand plants, the 
ead) of Mr. A. M. Fields, who is quite enthusiastic on the subject. 
y fifty per cent. of his plants are not Agave sisalana, however, 
Kew from Florida from Mr. Richard Dodge, and there is no doubt that 
the plant which he had provisionally taken to be Agave ma and 
mentioned in his report under the name of “ False Sisal,” an 
entirely new species. In a Bipra] Aa ‘April 27, 1892, araeidiiig 
Specimens, Mr. Richards Dodge states :— 
s ee of Apoaurs, Washington, 
ril 27, 1892 
“T have just received from Biscayne Bay, So uthern Florida, some 
blossoms of my so-called ‘ False Sisal,’ accompanied by niom 
o-da 
the others being in a semi-decayed condition and unfit to send. | 
is the normal length of the erie found megye the Biscayne Bay 
region and along ie ine of Keys. Those at Lake Worth, whicb is 
rong, 
as ces and of differest ih nce 
These and other specimens have enabled Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., 
the Keeper of the Her = arium at Kew, to draw up the following 
description of the plant 
AGAVE (EUAGAVE) DECIPIENS, BAKER. 
ice demum 3-4-peda ali, foliis dense rosulatis ensiformibus 
apicem sensim angustatis, facie sepissime concavis, spina terminali 
pungente breviter decurrente, aculeis marginalibus nie vis atro-castaneis 
ei ons sws Culture in the United States. Fibre Investigations, Report No. 3. 
p. 4 
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