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The buds,sent to me,with inoom biete flower In the center, are entirely 



unknown to me. You are not telling, where this bud cones^ron, if from 



an inflorescen.se or from. the axil of a branch or bract I did turn 



your attention to the study of bud-f ornation (bulbilli) an^t asked, to 



observe the position» By the way, we have the same with many Alliun 



bulblets 



Speeles, which have only blossoms, blossoms and 1 , or only bulb- 



with some, all three conhinations oocur in one Speeles ! It 

 Tna y b e this wa y wi t h Ag a va e • . 



The desoription and Illustration of Areave Verschaf ^elti! was 

 lmportant to me; I did not know it; it is the same wlth my still 

 imperf ectly know A« Newberryl « Thus I would classlfy the Paniculatae 

 into rae 1ml forme s and thyrsoideae » A» Shawii beloncs with out fürt", er 

 ado to the latter, It does not make any differenee, that the flowers 

 are stand in.fr denser than with Americana or even more wlth desertl 



Baker in Garden Chrofeicl e , I see, supplanted recently my Clas- 

 sification names with the old ones Manfrede, Littaea and Eua^ave; 

 which he needs as subgroups of Agave«- Chacun secon. son gout . - 

 (Prenchi Everybody to hls own taste, E.D.) 



May Shawi 1 and Ghie sbrech til belonrr together ? The desoription 

 o^ Jacob! does not fit, but he may have had a very young plant; the 

 name squalideus fits better. However , it is an urpardonable error 

 of ralne, to have ereated the Speeles falcata ; striata , as described 

 by Jacob! , is entirely my plant; and the dese-M pti on the flower, 

 which Jacob! doubts (?) ,conflrras this even more.- Hystrlx and others 

 belong there too, as I suspect. 



I know Bonapartea iVyl^W, quite well with fruit, but never 

 saw it flower. With their round leaves they have no similarlty to my 

 angusti ssima 



Yucca I have also 2 speelraens and will send you one. But I do 

 not know, if anything of Wlsllzenus Lemoin ean be motten. Will see. 



