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Plate 21. 
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_ Plate 5. Furcraea gigantea: a species of a kindred genus of the Agave. 
The F. feetida is said te to yield valuable foliaceous fibres in Cuba. 
Plate 6. Agave Americana; naturalized in the south of Euro ope ; 
founded by Hum boldt, and his copyists, with the Agave Sislana, and “thé 
ve Mexicana, or the annie, a St of hot lowland Yueatan, and the 
Pulque Agave of cool bighland 
late 7. Agave Virginica: indi aos to the worst soils of the United 
States between the Potomac and the Mississ ippl 
B. Plate 8. Bromelia Ananas, or Edible Pine-apple plant ; some writers as- 
sert that the leaves of some variety of this cultivated species yield fine fo- 
gee i fibres of practical utility. 
e 9. Bromelia Sylvestris, or wild Pine-apple plant: copied to illus- 
tras the mode or growth of the Bromelia Pita, or forest Pine-apple, flax 
plant of Goazacoalcos. 
Plates 10 and 11 exhibit two species of plants embraced under the section 
of the Screw-pine tribe of pla 
Plates 12 to 18, a exhibit plants embraced under the ordinal 
. term Lily 
Plates 12 to 0 17, “nshaits exhibit species of Yucca indigenous to the 
most sittilg soils of the United States, from the Potomac to the Mississippi, 
of which some extend to the Rocky mountains, and others are acclimated in 
our northern States 
Plate 12, Yucca ¢gloriosa, or Petre, now growing in the garden of Mr. 
Buist, Weatingtin city. Plate 17. Same species in flow 
Plate 13. Yucca angustifoli before flowers. Plate 14. Do. do., in 
ower. 
Plate Yucca aloifolia; this and the Y. gloriosa are both frequently 
called ihdeave — Spanish bayonet, Petre, and sometimes Palmetto, &e 
ilamentosa ; common names are Bear’s grass, Silk 
grass, Eve rs tlerens, Everlasting, &c. The three last named species may be 
profitably propagated i in the poorest soils of the United States 
Plate 18. Phormium tenax, Flax Lily of New Zealand ; ‘acclimated in 
the south of France, and now an important staple of agriculture and man- 
ufactures in that kingdom 
Plates 19, 20, and 21. Three species of plants of different genera, em- 
raced under the Banana Tribe 
Ptate 19. Heliconia Paitintordss. The celebrated Dr. Samuel L, Mit- 
chell supposed that the Manilla Hemp was obtained from one species of © 
is 
Plate 20. ace regina; now in flower at the green-house of Mr. 
Musa vebaets: Red Banana; the stalk, composed of the sige 
stalls of the leaves, illustrates the mode ‘of gro wth of the Musa Aba 
Mani!la Hemp Banana. By he C, Plate 1, it will be seen that ae ony 
broad Lamina in the manufacture of mats, , in their 
original state, by simple pressure and drying only ; and i ly simply 
scraping only in coe sti os they will yield very long and abundant 
r spinning an 
ee 5 23, 34, exhibit “different plants of the Palm tribe. 
Plate oa ti flabelliformis, Palm myra P Palm. The Gomnty ane 
or. black-cordage tree of the East Indies i is said by some botanists to 
brother species of the same genus. 
