— 2 3 “ 
ir side, and, 
long, loose: 
■bout | inch 
bearing 2-5I 
about open-1 
rigon; tubeK; 
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tes long. I 
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ractis ovato-K; 
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currentibus, 
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:ulis; florisR 
, tubo infun-1 
later s. quin-|| 
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pidata. I 
and in the^B 
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,* in the ad-Btf 
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San Felipe, 
and valleys* 
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Dr. Toney* 
The plant is one of the smaller of this section; leaves densely 
clustered around the base of the stalk, ascending and erect, thick, 
fleshy, deeply concave, very glaucous, 6-12 inches long, £-2 wide, 
contracted above the very broad base, which is edged with sharp, 
straight, pale teeth, wider above the middle and terminated by an 
unusually long (1-2 inches) and slender, laterally compressed spine 
marked with a deep narrow groove half-way up ; the hard and 
horny, dark colored edge of this spine extends down to about the 
middle of the leaf, bearing the crowded, strong, hooked teeth (2-3 
lines long) ; below the middle the teeth-bearing margin is herba¬ 
ceous. The stalk is, according to Dr. Parry, 4-10 feet high, 1-2 
inches thick below. The flattened branches of the panicle, almost 
horizontal below, longest (2-3 inches) in the middle and nearly 
erect upwards, divide into not very compact clusters of forked 
pedicels, 2-3 lines in length, the ultimate ones shorter, bearing a 
profusion of bright yellow flowers. Prismatic ovary a little shorter 
than the perigon and scarcely contracted at top; perigon 10-11 
lines long, tube only 1I-2 lines long and wide, lobes about 9 
lines long and 2 \ wide ; filaments inserted at base of lobes, about 
twice their length ; anthers as long as lobes ; capsule if inches 
long, 6-7 lines wide, pointed ; seeds’2i lines in diameter. 
11. Agave Parryi, n.sp.: acaulis ; foliis ascendentibus rectis 
Supra basin dilatatam vix angustatis ovato-lanceolatis versus 
apicem attenuatis spina valida supra planiuscula medio leviter 
jcarinata decurrente terminatis, margine aculeis di stantibus mi- 
pOribus rectis seu paulo deflexis armato; scapo valido brac- 
ceis magnis foliaceis triangularibus integris imbricato; paniculse 
ramis robustis horizontalibus seu vix ascendentibus apice flo- 
|-es numerosissimos breviter pedicellatos ochroleucos ger^nti- 
pus, ovario prismatico perigonium fere sequante, tubo brevi 
mfundibuliformi lobis lineari-oblongis erecto-patulis duplo bre- 
yiore, staminibus summo tubo adnatis longe exsertis, stylo s«pe 
kemum stamina excedente ; capsula ovata brevissime cuspidata, 
seminibus majusculis. — A. Americana, jit latifolig ,, Torr. Bot. 
Mex. Bound, p. 213, pro Emoryi planta; A. Mescal , C. Koch, 
Wochenschr. 1865, p. 94 (ex Jacobi), and A. crenata, Jacobi, 
Agav. p. 229, quoad plantam neo-mexicanam. 
Western New Mexico to Northern Arizona, and perhaps 
eastward to the mountains below El Paso, apparently not south 
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