276 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



actors assigned by Miller to Agave rigida and by Haworth to 



he 



ted 



been 



Salm* g 



tury, but 

 le. What 

 described 



under Miller's name, he did not sec how to separate from the 



J 



description of Haworth's angustijolia,'\ which he did not 

 knowingly grow, while Jacobi.J who saw Salm's specimen, 

 clearly did not mean Miller's plant by his own rigidn. Koch 

 found only angustij olia , as (appai-ently rightly) he understood 

 it, grown under this name in 18G0;§ and in 18C5 abandoned 

 rigida altogether,^! finding the name then used for a number 

 of nominal species, all ajiparently comparable with the Indian 

 A. Canlala and its possible segregates. No Agave at all 

 well corresponding to CommeHn's narrow-leaved Vera Cruz 

 aloe. Miller's Agave rigida, or Haworth's Furcraca rigida 

 seems to have been rediscovered since its importation by the 

 Dutch; but a search for it in the field seems wiser than 

 cither the abandonment of the name or its mei-ging under any 



known s 



ized. and 



sought between Venezuela and Yucatan than to the north of 

 the peninsula. Its synonymy is as follows : 



Agave rigida Miller, Diet. 8 cd. no. 8 (17GS); Abr. Dict.no. 8. 



(1771); Diet. Jard. 1 : 57, Gl. (1785).— Onomatologia 

 1 : 203. (1772).— Mawe, Diet. Card. no. 4. (177S).— Diet- 

 rich, Vollst. Lex. 1: 163. (1802).— Link, Enum. Berol. 

 1 : 334. (1821).— Steudel, Nomencl. 18. (1821).— Diet- 

 rich, Syn. PI. 2:1192. (1840),— except for De Spin 

 citation. — Koch, Wochenschr. Ver. I^eford. Gartenbau. 

 18G0: 48; 1865: 101; Fl. des Jard. 1861: 147; Belg. 

 Ilort. 1862 : 309. — Drummond & Prain, Agrlc. Ledger. 



1906: 143. 



# 



4 



L 



A. lurida (3 A. rigida Martyn, Miller's Diet. no. 4 i?. (1S07). 

 A. lurida second variety. Reos, Cyclop. 1. no. 4. (1819). 

 A. Ixtli rigida Baker, Gard. Cliron. n. s. 8 : 397. (1877). — Ricasoli, 



Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ort. 3 : 241. (1878).— Terracciano, Prime Contr.44. 



(1885). 



* Bonplandia. 7 : 90. - f /. c 87, 95. J Versuch. 94, 



§ Wochenschr. Verein Bcford. Gartenbau. 3 : 48. t Z. c. 8 : 101. 



