Weber, Alb. 



Lyon, My 17, 1877 



Ree. Aug. 3 

 Ans. Aug. 21 



My dear colleague, 



I have just sent by mail a small package containing flowers. For each species there is a separate 

 envelope on which there is a number. (the postal service prohibits us from writing on the 

 samples anything but numbers). Here are the names that correspond to each of these numbers: 



No. 1. Agave americana. Flowers that come from the samples that bloomed in 1876 at St. 

 Germain close to Paris and of which I have sent you photographs. I will also send you drawings 

 of the flowers in their natural size. 



No. 2. Agave mitraeformis. It comes from the sample described by Jacobi that has just 

 bloomed in Lyon. 



No. 3. Agave Guedeneyri new species, that bloomed in 1874 at Guedeneyri's in Vesinet. I also 

 send you the drawings of the plant, and the flowers in their different phases of development. But 

 because my letter would be too long, I will send it in a separate envelope. If all these drawings 

 can be of value to you for your future publications, you may use them in any way you wish. 

 No. 4. Agave densiflora, syn. xalapensis, bloomed at Lyon simultaneously. The different 

 varieties all have identical flowers. 



No. 5. Agave dealbata syn. dasyiiriodes, bloomed in Lyon in 1877, with 2 capsules that are 

 remarkable for their non deciduous perianth with a relative size, similar to the seeds. 

 No. 6. Agave schidigera Lern. Bloomed in Lyon in the spring of 1877. The fruits are not yet 

 ripe. This species is very similar to the Agave filifera, but different in their flowers mainly 

 because of their non convoluted lobules and yellow antennae, before they dehisce,, whereas in 

 the filifera they are brown. 



No. 7. Agave filifera. Bloomed in 1876 at Guedeneyri's. 



No. 8. Leaves of the Bonapartea juncea var. filifera, that I asked you to compare with your 

 leaves of the Agave angustissima. Its description is entirely comparable to the plant we have 

 here under the above name. 



I forgot to include a package of flowers of the Agave xylinacantha, but I will send it to you in 

 my next letter, together with others that I collected during the inflorescence of this species that is 

 not a geminiflora but a triflora in which most are spiked. 



I would also like the notes that you collected on most of the flowers included in today's dispatch. 



I also must teil you about the very singular inflorescence of the Agave miradorensis that at one 

 time reached a height of 3 meters and is not thicker than a fmger at one end, without having 









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