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J. C. Parker of San Diego, last January. Plate i represents a 
group of these plants on the mesa near the coast of x the Pacific, 
which is seen ill the distance; one specimen is in full bloom, oth¬ 
ers flowered in November and are now bearing fruit sparingly. 
Decaying old plants are seen around, and young ones sprouting. 
The pbyllotactic arrangement pf the short broad leaves is beauti¬ 
fully displayed; the bright spiny teeth appear almost white from 
the effect of reflected light. The scape is conspicuously coveted 
by the broad, triangular, imbricated bracts. The figures are about 
one-twentyrfourth of the natural size, or half an inch to the foot. 
Plate 3 shows, in Fig. i, a young plant; its leaves are more 
deeply concave than they are later, and therefore seem to be nar¬ 
rower ; the teeth and their impressions on the adjoining leaves 
‘are remarkably well developed. One-fourth of natural size.— 
Fig. 2 is a cluster of flowers', exhibiting a densely compacted 
mass, unfortunately not distinct enough in its details ; but the 
outlines of the cluster, the enveloping bracts, the very long, mostly 
vertical, anthers, and the exserted styles, are well rendered. It is 
two and a half times less than the natural size. 
Page 322, line 1. In the Berlin botanic garden an Agave atte- 
nuata is cultivated which has a trunk 6 feet high ; it Is said to 
have-grown 4 feet within the last 18 years. 
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tb Article on YucqA, vol. iii. pp. 17-54. 
Page^r. I T. brevifolia has sessile, densely-flowered panicles; 
flowers grysnish-white, inconspicuous, and fetid. FI. in April 
and May.-/-It Is^emarkable that at least in Southeastern Nevada* 3 ? 
north of the great^bend pf tfie Colorado River^ whef^^essrs. 
Johnson and Parry n^p repeatedly examined numerous plants, 
ever beem 
become quite familiar through 
living ^ecifnensy&nd beautiful plmtographs. From the latter we 
learn that the/scape is imbricately. covered with conspicuous, 
broad/ at last/patuloqs or drpoping bracts, and that the panicle is 
densely flowered, narrow, spike-like, almost lanceolate. 
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