1874. ] 
DASYLIEION GLAUOUM. 
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ones are almost reduced to bracts or scales, and bearing also for two-tbirds of its 
length spiciform erect bunches of flowers, forming a close but ramified inflor¬ 
escence. The flowers are small, yellowish-white, extremely numerous, with the 
p erianth segments united at the base ; the stamens are six in number, with the 
white filaments terminated by yellowish anthers. ‘ 
The D. glaucum^ of which the cut is here reproduced, is a plant of very orna¬ 
mental aspect. It flowered, probably for the first time at Paris, at the establish¬ 
ment of M. Eougier-Ohauviere about the beginning of August, 1872. It is culti¬ 
vated in the greenhouse, of which it is a hardy inhabitant, its culture being 
similar to that of the Agaves. The few other species of Dasylirion met with in 
our greenhouses are all exceedingly handsome plants of the Yucca or Agave type. 
—T. Moore. 
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