PLATE 52. 
AGAVE ACICULARIS (p. 34). 
Figure 1. <A cluster of pedicels and several old flowers, one of them in section, and a 
partly developed capsule, showing the short pedicels, open tube, and short filaments inserted 
nearly in its throat. From herbarium material (Cuba, Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 5926). 
Natural size. 
Figure 2. Two leaf-tips, two leaf-margins, and tip and lower portion of a (toothless) bract, 
showing the needle-shaped openly grooved spine and small triangular prickles lenticularly 
widened into the margin. From herbarium material (Cuba, Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 5926). 
Natural size. 
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