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' -^HBileS-9 lines wide, lei 
ovato multo longioris tubo angusto sensim ampliato lobis line- ^ has retained its pe 
ie sport with crowc 
;v to fasciation, I h 
ari-oblongis erectis bis terve longiore, filamentis inferiori tubi 
parti adnatis sursum clavatis perigonium vix duplo superantibus, 
stigmatibus suborbiculatis demum patentibus; capsula tricocca 
, sijbglobosa retusa breviter stipitata. VARIEGATAl 
Var. p. tigrina : robustior foliis majoribus pulchre purpurec^V P* I ^° ’ ^ aUt 
maculatis ; staminibus imo tubo adnatis ; capsulis • depress^ftj ate knceolatis un< 
globosis. ■ . hibo late infun 
Lusus polyanthus: spica densiflora floribus in glomerulos Ypos ovato-oblongc 
paucifloros congestis saepius antholyticis. seu eis P au ^° to 
On dry hills and in open woods from Maryland and Virginia pslonge exsertl ’s, sty 
southward and westward to Missouri and Texas, but not on the . iga cuspidata. 
western plains or in West Texas, nor on the Rio Grand.!; the Me lower Rio Gran 
variety Hi salt-marshes on the coast of South Carolina, Dr. Melli- JpMay, 1847. —Lea\ 
champ.—FI. June to August, according; to latitude.—This species Is wide; edge simila 
was first known through Clayton’s collection, who described it |jjs lerand curved upwar 
“Aloe from Virginia,” and makes mention of its fragrant flowers'* Yegg’s specimen abo 
and deciduous leaves ; from his specimens and notes it was pub- * bract, 4 lines 
lished by Gronovius in his Flora Virginica,. 1739, and through Yong; ovarv tube 
him became known to Linnaeus, who in 1751 (Amcen. Acad. 3*: 
p. 22) referred it to his new genus Agave. 
Leaves mostly f-i foot long, if or 2 inches wide ; in a form 
from Houston, Texas, the leaves are lance-linear and nolimore 
than half as wide ; marginal teeth extremely small, consisting of 
single projecting epidermis cells, or larger, to (rarely) 1 line 
* long, and then consisting of innumerable short cells, not sharp- 
pointed, but rough, like the small serratures of some Yuccas, only ^ thlS P lant from tl 
less rigid. Scape altogether 3-5 feet high, of which the spike ^ ancl Saunders’ A. 
. measures 1 or 1f feet. Flower, including ovary but excluding e Verted “in the" 
stamens—as I always measure Agave flowers—i-if inches long, plant, which 
with the stamens for rarely 1 inch longer; anthers 6-6fjlines ^ has repeatedly 
Capsules 7—9 lines-long,., a little less wide ; seeds 2—3 lines • tc ^ es< of which in 
{wide, lightly reticulated, with depressed, minutely dotted areas. 10 ^ e means toasc 
‘ Var. tigrina is larger and more robust; leaves tapering^to a ^ * ra chystac/iys, 1 
point or abruptly cuspidate, i-i f feet long, 2I-3 inches wide, ,' Jme P Ian t; the fc 
■or tube a little shortc 
P about \ or | up th 
Pinches in length ; 
|ien longer than the 
P6wide; seeds un 
■ diameter. 
{beautifully mottled; the purple color is produced by ajelear ^| ar ger “entire 
'purple .liquid contained in a single layer of small flattenecl cells Sl niilar, but, if t 
between the transparent epidermis cells and the large parepchy- 11,18 We H-distingui s ] 
matous cells fi)|ed with chlorophyll and often with rhaphides; ' ertl0n °f stariTens in 
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