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Agave lurida (*.) Broad-leaved Vera 

 Cruz Agave. 



Generic Character. — Videfupra No. 1157, 



Specific CharaFler and Synonyms, 



AGAVE lurida; (fubcaudefcens : ) foliis glaucis dentato-fpinofis ; 

 caule paniculato ; racemulis laxe fafciculatis ; corolla ho- 

 rizontal^ limbo turbinato-patulo, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis; 

 germine cylindraceo corollam sequante, prope bafin con- 

 ftri&iore; ftaminibus ftylcque dimidio magifve exfertis; 

 ftigmate capitato-trilobo, antheras tranfeunte.- G. 



AGAVE lurida. Hort. Kew. 1. 472. ed. a. 2. 302. Willd. Sp. 

 PL 2. 193 ,- (exclufo inultimis duobus Jacquino.) Mart. Mill. 

 DiEi. n. 4. 



AGAVE Vera Cruz. Mill. ed. 8. n. 7. 



ALOE americana ex vera cruce foliis latioribus glaucis. Hsrl. 

 Beaumont, p. 4 > (nee ut Millero perperam H. L.) 



ALOE americana foboiifera. Herm. Hort. Lugd. 16. tab. 17. ? 

 (minus refte a Willdenovio ad viviparam allegata.) 



(3-) foliis anguftioribus. 



AGAVE rigida. Mill. Did. ed. 8. n. 8. 



ALOE americana ex vera cruce foliis anguftioribus minus 

 glaucis. Hort. Beaum. p. 4. 



The fpecies firft received the title of Vera Cruz from Miller, 

 m the eighth edition of his Dictionary, and was afterwards 

 adopted into the Hortus Kewenfis by that of bifida, together 

 with the rigida of the fame, as its variety. But fo (lender and 

 obfeure is the information in either of thefe works on this head, 

 that we are left to tradition to come at what plant was intended 

 °Y them. Our drawing was taken from a part of a fpecimen 

 that bloomed the fummer before lafl in the Kew Gardens, in 

 which the prefent fuperintendant, Mr. A 1 ton, tells us it had 

 always been confidered as their lurida ; and it is but fair to give 

 hl m credit for knowing well the plants which he had become 



acquainted 



