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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



A. linearia Jacobi, Wochenschr. Ver. Beford. Gartenbau. 1869 : 179. 

 A. Bessereriana longifolia viridis Laurentius, Cat. 1869: 15, 16. /. 

 A. Besseriana longifolia viridis Jacobi, Wochenschr. Ver. Beford. 



Gartenbau. 1869: 179; Versuch. Nachtrag. 2:76. (1871). 

 A. Bessereriana viridis M., Fl. & Pomol. 1870 : 258. /. 1. 

 A. Bessereriana T. M., Gard. Chron. 1871 : 74. /. 19. 

 A. linearis Jacobi, Versuch. Nachtrag. 2:76. (187l).-Baker, Gard. 

 Chron. n. s. 8: 137. (1877); Handbook. 177. (1888).— Hemsley, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer. 3 : 345. (1882-6).— Terracciano, Primo Contributo. 

 29. (1885). 



A. paucifolia Baker, Gard. Chron. n. s. 9: 266. (1878); Handbook 

 AmaryU. 177. (1888)-— Hamburg. Gart.-Zeit. 1878: 185.— Garten- 

 flora. 27: 321. (1878).— Belg. Hort. 1879 : 115.— Hemsley, Biol. 

 Cent.-Amer. 3:347. (1882-6). 

 A. oligophylla Baker, Gard. Chron. n. s. 10: 492. (1878); Hand- 

 book AmaryU. 177, (1888).— Segura, El Maguey. 4 ed. 84. (1901). 

 A. Besseriana major Garden. 7 : 456. (1875).— Belg. Hort. 1875: 43. 

 A. Bessereriana major Peacock, List. 2. (1878). 

 A. concinna Baker, Gard. Chron. n. s. 8 : 137. (1877); Handbook 

 Amaryllid. 178. (1888).— Ricasoli, Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 8: 237. 

 (1878).— Hemsley, Biol. Centr.-Amer. 3 : 341. (1882-6).— Terrac- 

 ciano, Primo Contributo. 29. (1885).— Kew Hand List Tend. 

 Monocot. 109. (1897).— Segura, El Maguey. 4 ed. 85. (1901). 

 A. sudburyensis Baker, Gard. Chron. n. s. 8 : 137. (1877).— Pea- 

 cock, List. 2. (1878).— Terracciano, Primo Contributo. 29. (1885). 

 A. macracantha concinna Terracciano, Primo Contributo. 29. (1885). 

 ? A. integrifolia Baker, Handbook AmaryU. 185. (1888).— Voss & Sie- 

 bert, Vilmorin's Blumengartn. 1037. (1896).— Kew Hand List 

 Tend. Monocot. 113. (1897).— Terracciano, Bull. R. Ort. Bot. 

 Palermo. 1 : 24. (1897).— Segura, El Maguey. 4 ed. 105. (1901). 

 Glaucous throughout. Leaves forming a hemispherical or globose 

 cluster along a very short trunk, gray on a yellowish-green ground color, 

 dull, thick and rigid, straight or sometimes falcately curved laterally, 



ing, becoming strongly reflexed at flowering, lanceolate to oblong-lanceo- 

 late, 1.8-4 (or exceptionaUy 7)X 20-55 cm.: spine slightly curved, black- 

 ish or dark brown, strong and stout, 4-6 or 7 X 15-25 (or exceptionaUy 

 45-65 mm.), openly and rather deeply obliquely grooved for much of its 



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