I 



flowered for the first time in the Garden of the Duke 



of L 



at Lainate. near M 



That specimen had a 



were 



caudex 3 feet high, and 7 inches thick 

 3 feet long ; the flower-stem . 24 feet high ; and the 

 number of flowers one thousand four hundred and eighty- 



The plant from which the annexed drawing was 



two 



made blossomed in the Nursery of Mr. Joseph Knight 

 in November 1826 

 number of flowers 



the stem 



ght hundred and forty 



14 feet hidi. and the 



In the 



Gardens both of this country and of the continent, it was 



before flowering, confounded 



Buonapartea j 



totally different plant, resembling this in nothing but the 

 narrowness of its leaves, which are otherwise so different, 

 that no person who possessed the slightest acquaintance 

 with the natural affinities of plants could have fallen into 



the mistake. But at th 



mere 



emp 



time Botany was too often 



recovered in this 



a stigma from which it has not yet 



untry 



The B 



of artificial 



tyl 



gements could do. nothing without his stamens and 



but for the student of 



no better evidence 



afford would have 

 r not it was a B 



bee 



upon this plant than the leaves 

 desired, to determine whether c 



partea. .- ' 



■ 



By Signor Tagliabue, who had the care of the Duke 

 of Litta's plant, it was found, that if the central bud 

 of the stem were seared with a hot iron, a brood of 



: and 



young 



plants would be produced round the base 



gatmg 



rdingly such was the method he practised 



propa 



With 



^ 



pect to the genus of this plant, we feel 



selves fully justified in adopting the opinion of Mr. Ker, 

 that^ It IS a mere Agave, upon the ground that it possesses 



either of fructification or vegetation, by which 

 tially distinguished; unless the revolute 



so considered ; upon which 



it can be 



limb of the perianthium be 

 however, little value is 



Ag 



pt 



agrees 



to be placed. Indeed, with this 

 every particular with the genuine 

 With regard to habit, we should have presumed 

 that no one would suppose that rather vague, but sometimes 

 important quality, to depend upon a difference in the 

 breadth of the leaves of two plants ; and yet, except in 

 this particular, we know of nothing which can have led 



