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new genus. Either as a new genus, aS a new species, or as both, it will . 
perpetuate the name of any personage who may effectually promote its 
domestication in the United States, with much more meritorious associations 
than those which accompany the name of Bonapartea juncea, applied to a 
iaceee.. As the 
specific characters, taken from the parts of fructification, although, by their 
wn rules, these should furnish generic characters alone, the subscriber is , 
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ments, or near the top of the tube. The style is not half as long as the 
Stamens, and is even very little elevated above the segments of the corrolla, 
when its three-lobed stigma receives the pollen from the bursting anthers ; 
germ itself becomes a cylindrical capsula, which, opening at the top in three 
divisions, even splits the dried tube of the corrolla, still obstinately adhering 
with its withered segme aments an etails of the mode of 
stalk which sustains all, are not necessary for the objects of the present 
communication. . Even the bombastic baron has admitted, in his essay on 
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of their stigma, appear to belong to a different genus ;” and he has, more- 
over, confessed that “the plant cultivated for distillation, differs essentially 
rom the common Maguey de pulque,” being smaller, and the leaves not.so 
glaucous, “but not having seen it in flower, I cannot pretend to judge of 
Same pages, has unhesitatingly asserted that “the Magueys or metl, culti- 
vated in Mexico, are numerous varieties of the Agave Americana, which has 
become so common in our gardens, with yellow fasciculated and straight 
leaves, and stamina twice as long as the pinking of the corrolla.”. Having 
thus made the own pen of Humboldt conviet him of g isrey ti 
concerning the Agaves, and having established the important specific differ- 
ences, if not the entire generic independence, of the very fibrons-leaved 
Henequen, the subscriber begs the department to reflect attentively on the 
the quadruple properties united in the single, untwisted, foliaceous fibres 
of Henequen, they become a superior substitute for the compound, twisted, 
cortical fibres of hemp, in the manufacture of many coarse. articles. of 
extensive consumption, hitherto woven of spun thread; and will furnish 
cheaper equivalents for baling, and envelopes in general, than any other 
