PEARED: 
AGAVE ALBESCENS (p. 44). 
[Plate 116 also. | 
Figure 1. A young plant of the type collection, cultivated at the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Greatly reduced. 
Figure 2. Three leaf-tips showing the short at length very broad-based openly grooved spine, 
roughened in two of the specimens; and parts of the leaf-margin at about the middle showing 
the small triangular prickles rather abruptly widening into the tops of low marginal prominences 
that finally become hard. Herbarium material (Britton, 2085). Natural size. 
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