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merits, which are united one-thirgf their len 
down into linear divisions.; s^ds (i 
gined, on a funiculus longer th 
size. Fig. 1. Stamen, seen froh^e^ide. 
reter. 
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style cleft half-way 
or n early round, mar- 
Plate XXVI. Natural 
Fig. 2. The same, seen from 
inside the flower. Fig. 3. V/Fig.NL Flower, with perianth removed. 
Fig. 5. Mature capsuk^<All except the nh^k enlarged about 5 diameters! 
This handsoi^^species (238| I (liscovere^at Willow Spring, Arizona, 
at an altitudepr 7,195 feet; groWs inVlamp places. There are indications 
of its presence elsewhere in Arizona)Anck allied spebies are Found in Mexico. 
A - ; : x- ay ti x 
Km AMARYLLIDE^^z 
Agave Utahexsis, Engelm., Bot. King’s Export, 497; Engelm. Agav. 
in Trans. Acad. St. Louis, 3, 308.—Stemless; leases suberect, or outer ones 
spreading, lanceolate, tapering from a broad base, conbave;^6-12 / long, 1-2' 
wide, not constricted above the base, very thick, hard, glaucous and rough, 
terminating in a long (1 inch) pale spine, with broad whitish teetlvon the 
margin ; flowering stalk 5-7° high, with a spike-like raceme oF yellow 
flowers each V long, in pairs, or often in clusters of 4, on distinct pedicels?; 
Ibbes 3 times longer than the funnel-shapedt tube, which bears the stamens 
in the middlej_filamenla ^nd style- ' not mu ch longer than the perigon; 
[ capsxjler^vufsubcylindric, about V long. ' / —- * 
( Northern Arizona, Bischoff, to Southern Utah. 
|i||t Agave Parryi, Engelm. Agave, l. c. 311. (A. Americana, var. .flati- 
'folia, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 213.)—Stemless ; numerous short and broad 
(9-12 / long and 3-3wide) leaves crowded around the base of the stalk 
pale, glaucous, with small, almost black, . spiny, straightish teeth, and with a- 
dark, horny margin toward the. cuspidate tip, which terminates in a.robust, 
somewhat triangular, black spine V in length; stout scape 8-12° high, 
bearing a large, branched panicle of cream-colored flowers over 2' in 
length; perigon deeply 6-parted; lobes twice as long as tube, which bears 
the long-exsert stamens in its throaty;capsule broadly oval, sessil^seeds 
larger than in either of the other speciesf — 
MISSOURI 
BOTANIC A-u 
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