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Genus 319. Agave, L. Corolla superior, erect, tubulous or funnel form. " 
Staminiferous filaments longer than the Corolla, erect. Capsule (inferior) 
triangular, many seeded. 
Caudex sometimes ligneous and ascending; leaves radical, or comose, 
rigid and channelled, with the point, and often the margin , spiny ; younger 
leaves obvolute, o r rolled around each other spirally ; panicle ascending 
om the paren very large and pyramidal. A genus scarcely differing 
Absadbe from aloe, ng in the situation of the capsule, which is inferior. 
Species l. A. aah ca. From Virginia to Florida ; also, in Upper Lou- 
isiana. An American genus, chiefly tropical. A. Americana i is the largest ~ 
of all oon sug its panicles of flowers are of the magnitude of 
small t In Peru and Mexico, it has long been mn by the indi- 
genes sry Seca Se various and important economical pu It 
affords an abundant and vinous liquor, and, by disti tillations alcohol ; of the / 
fibres of its enormous leaves are made thread and paper, &c.* 
Michauk’s Flora, Boreali Americana, Paris, 1808, vol. ¥, p.187; Clas 6. 
* Hexandria Monogyni \ 
Section 1. Ovario infero. Agave, L. Cor. erecta, supera. Filamenta corolla 
i cta. 
A. Virginica. A. foliis integris, mucronatis; scape simplicissimo, spici- 
floro; ovario subrotundo triquetro ; staminibus exertis, Obs. Flores odo- 
ratissimi, obsolete virentis. Hab. inherboris Caroline et Virginie 
Section 2. Ovario supero. Yucca L. Cor. ¢ campanulato- vateeie Stylus | 
nullus. Caps. 3 locularis. ‘Y. filamentosa. Y. acaulis; foliis latiuscule 
lanceolatis, margine passim filamentosis. Hab. in littoralibus et remotis 
occidentalibus Caroline et Virginie. Y. aloifolia. Y¥. caulescens ; foliis 
lineari-lanceolatis, minutis denticulis callosis quest serrulatis. lite 
toralibus Caroline, Flloride, &c. _Y. glorioso. Y. oe ; folis Jati- 
uscule lanceolatus integerrimus. Hab. in littoralibus Carolin 
Pursh’s Flora America, Sepientrionalis, London, 1816, 2d edit, 
Genus 294. Agave. Cor. Supera 6 fida; limbo erecta. Filam. corolla — 
aur recta. i 
us 298. Yucea. Cor. infera, campanulatus laciniis non nectariferis. 
Filan clavata. Style.O. Caps. oblonga, obtuse 3 gona sem. plana. 
Agave. Gen. pl. 582. Virginica. 1. A. acatilis, herbacea ; foliis cartilaginar- [) 
serratis scapo SetLaET oe (Wild. Sp. pl. 2, p. 193; Icon. Jacq., icrar 2 
378; Bot. Mag. 1,157.) On the rocky and fertile banks, Virginia to Caro- 
ve Ta, g 
580. filamentosa 1. Y. acaulis: Folly lata tatiessla 7 q 
integerrimes margine filamentosis, stigmatibus, recurvato- -patentibus, ‘iad ! 
Sp. pl. 2, p. 184; Icur. Tren. ehtet to ) 37.) On te shores of Vir . et 
Carolina, and in the western parts ‘thereof, 4 July, Aug. v. v, i 
white, very showy, and the plant is from four to five feet ight ac 
: tie hee by 
* Note by FL. P.—The Pulque Agave is ; not the = Americana; neither is the Mezcal ue : q 
plant; nor is the Henequon, or Sisal He p Agave, the ' same spec: a 
the same 
the substitute for cider, in the juice of the devekaping | stalk ; the sccont yal AL cas aren at a 
distillation-of the ry roots; and the third yields the substitute for hemp, by ie i 
