PLATE 98. 
AGAVE BRITTONIANA (p. 44). 
[Plate B also.] 
Figure 1. A panicle fragment with an isolated and opened flower. From herbarium mate- 
rial (Cuba, Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 4776). Natural size. 
Figure 2. Part of a leaf-tip and margin, two capsules, and eight seeds, showing the 
crowded slender pedicels, narrowly fusiform ovary, shallow tube with the long filaments 
inserted nearly in its throat, broadly oblong conspicuously stipitate capsules, slender round- 
grooved spine, and rather large curved prickles on marginal prominences the tops of which 
are hardened. From herbarium material (Cuba, Britton, Karle, and Wilson, 4776). Natural 
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