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Also cultivated in Barbadoes and Pe WHERE, thus 
yielding the Socotrin Aloe. : 
Aloe spicata, Thunberg.—South Africa. This aloe 
provides Cape aloe. It is an exceedingly handsome 
plant. 
Aloe vulgaris, Lamarck. — The yellow - flowered 
aloe. Countries around the Mediterranean Sea, also 
Canary Islands, on the sandy or rocky sea- coast. 
Dr. Sibthorp identified this species with the aloe of 
Dioscorides ; hence it is not probable that A. vulgaris 
is simultaneously also of American origin, although 
it is cultivated in the Antilles, and furnishes from 
thence the main supply of the Barbadoes aloe. In 
East India this species is also seemingly only existing 
in a cultivated state. Haworth found the leaves of 
this and of A. striata softer and more succulent than 
those of any other aloe. It it said to be the only spe- 
cies with yellow flowers among those early known. 
It is also this species only which Professor Wilkomm 
and Professor Parlatore record as truly wild in Spain 
and Italy. 
Aloe Zeyheri, Harvey.—South Africa. A magnifi- 
cent, very tall species, doubtless valuable like the rest. 
Alopecurus pratensis, L.—Meadow Foxtail Grass. 
Europe, North Africa, North and Middle Asia. One 
of the best of perennial pasture grasses. Though so 
extensively cultivated for years in our colony, it is 
mentioned, for completeness’ sake, in this list. It 
attains to its full perfection only after a few years of 
growth, as noticed by Sinclair. For this reason, it is 
not equal to Dactylis glomerata, for the purpose of 
changing crops. Otherwise it is more nutritious than 
the latter, although the annual return in Britain proy~ 
