J. C. Parker of San Diego, last January. Plate 2 represents a 
group of these plants on the mesa near the coast of the Pacific,, 
which is seen ill the distance ; one specimen.is in full bloom r oth¬ 
ers flowered in November and are now bearing fruit sparingly. 
Decaying old plants are seen around, and young ones sprouting'. 
The phyUatactic arrangement of 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 covered 
by the broad, triangular, imbricated bracts. The figures are about 
one-twenty-fourth of the natural size, or half an inch; to the foot. 
Plate 3 shows, in Fig. 1, 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 oil 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 ot 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 j. In the Berlin botanic garden an Agave atte¬ 
nuate is. cultivated which has a trunk 6 feet high ; it is said to 
have grown *4 feet within the last 18 years. 
Addition to Article on Yucca p<vol. iii. pp. 17-54. 
Page 47. f^bre'vifolia has sessile, densely-flowered panicles ; 
flowers greenish-white, inconspicuous, ajwfVetid. FI. in April 
and May.—ft is rentable that at Wst in Southeastern Nevada, 
north qf' the great berjd of the,-Colorado RivSr, where Messrs. 
Johnson and Parry have\epeatedly examined numerous plants, 
no fruit has ever been foprfck 
Page 54. T. Whij^Oei has\ow become quite familiar through 
living specimens^and beautiful photographs. From the latter we 
leai n that AkT scape is imbricate^ covered with conspicuous, 
broad, ^ Ikst patulous or drooping braqts, and that the panicle is 
densely flowered, narrow, spike^like, alrnpst lanceolate. 
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