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now - or not ! A frxend reports about an Afrave found in the south- 

 westerly corner of New Mexico, of which he unf orturateTy coTTected 

 flowers only, neither leaves nor * the nany stolones* 1 1 through which 

 we could have identif ied them so easily, and which are so easy to 

 ship. The dry blo ssoras I am supposed. to eret later. I report this 

 only on account of his renarks, that if ore would walk when windy un- 

 der Agavae, the honey-juice drip down like rain, A confirmation 

 made by me ~ you of cultivated Speeles; I never read this anywhere! 



What I have not observed, and what you may have perhaps more op- 

 portunity to observe, is, when this juice is secreted, already before 

 the f Tower ot>ens,or just rlght after ? 



As it seens from yoiir rem.arks, both panlculata and geninlf Tora 

 have this juice. How about 1 U^uXiflora ? Unf ortunately, my virginlana , 

 which in. all other years flowered both in pots and in the ground, are 

 not blooming this year. The early and hard winter was detrimental to 

 them as to nany other plant s# 



Who is the author of Agave Gnedeneyi Tou yourself . i s^nt it wrong 

 to glve this rjBftje in the garden and not to publish; you have then mo 

 right for acknowledgement,, The publication must only be provided 

 with sufficient description and be given in a resioectable Journal, 

 etc. The leaves of A^ave rreniniflora (Bonapartii) seem in fact to 

 asrree with angustlssima » That I can not separate tri - a^d nuadrlf Tora 

 from gemin 1 f T or a m orphol ogl cal 1 y I have already said In my work.. 

 Utaensis has flowers f requently, and I can u^d erstand, how a weak Se- 

 paration may exist between it and racemosis , in the meantime I search 

 the Separation (verbat im: boundary, L.B. ) in. the pairness of the 

 flowers with genlnl-flora « Here is the fToraT position: 



In the axil of the prlncipal bracts stand both pricipal flowers 

 H aa H , between them is the abortive axil f, x H which shows at times as 

 bract, but which possibly may also develop a f Tower, which would then 



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