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doubt of the plant's identity with that now in the "Succu- 

 lent House" (No. 5) at Kew. Mr. Watson, Curator of the 

 Royal Gardens, to whom the writer desires to express his 

 acknowledgments in connection with these notes, considers 

 that this is a variety of F. gigantea Vent., and there can be 

 no question in the writer's view that this is the origin of a 

 most elegant and interesting form, bearing much the same 

 relation to F. gigantea, Ventenat that Agave americana 0 

 variegata Bot. Mag. 3654 does to the much less common 

 green form of A. americana, Linn. 



Synonymy. 



In dealing systematically with the Agavcae it is hopeless 

 to attempt adjustment of the post-Linnacan nomenclature 

 without mastering the literature that went before the Spe- 

 cies Plantarum; but the writer has endeavored in the pre- 

 ceding notes to clear the ground so far as necessary for the 

 present purpose and it need not be gone over here afresh. 



Local and vernacular appellations also, even when taken 

 up in formal treatises, are noticed only under the connected 

 scientific names, and this solely where it seemed unavoid- 

 able. Under Furcraea (and its various spellings) names 

 that are never likely to be verified, and "excluded species," 

 are distinguished by the mark (t) ; where a name was pub- 

 lished under some other genus than Furcraea it will be found 

 under that other genus; the arrangement of genera and, 

 under each genus-title, of the species, is alphabetical; only 

 the author's name is stated unless more precise detail 

 seemed to be called for; in most cases the full reference has 

 been given in these notes already. 



Agave angustifolia* , J. fide = Agave tuberosa, Mill.? 

 Hort. Par. ex Lamarck, f. Lamarck. 



Enc. (1784) non Haworth. 



* All names that were at any time valid under the Linnaean genus 

 Agave are to be traced under Furcraea Vent. 



