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1. Aloe foliis lanccolntis dentatis spina cartilaginea terminatis 

 radicalibus (Synonyms] A. folio in oblongum aculeum abeunte 

 Bauh. Pinax [Morison's tab. 22, f. 2 and 3 are also cited; of 

 these fig. 2 is that of Clusius without the addition made by 

 Camerarius] Aloe secunda, etc., Sloane ; Aloe americana muricata 

 Bauh. Hist., [and] Boerbaave, Aloe americana Besl. Eyst., Aloe 

 alterum genus ex India occidental Caesalp. Syst. 418. Caraguata 

 gwgu Markgr. Bras. 87. [A variety is given as Aloe americana 

 ex vcra cruce foliis lanoribus et glauch Comm. hort. 2 p. 31. 

 t. 16. ; and the native country is said to be " in sterilioribm 

 aridionbus et saxosis collibus amcricae jamaicae> etc"~\ 

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13. Aloe foliis lanceolatis integerrimis patcntiusculis aculeis 

 terminatis radice caulesccnte [Synonyms] Aloe americana viridi 

 rigidissimo et fcetido folio Pitt dido indigenis, Kiggelaar in 

 Comm. hort. 2. p. 35 t. 18 ; Boerhaave Lugdb. 2 p. 129. n. 10; 

 Aloe americana tuber osa fostida major Pit Pita Herm. Prod. 

 306 ; Aloe americana radice tuberosa minor Pluk. Aim. 19 t. 

 258 f. 2. [Native country] Curagao. 



[A variety is described as Aloe americana foliis angustioribm 

 ex Vera Cruce. Hort. Carol. ^.] 



The figure cited under 13 from the Phytographiu * is referred in the Alma- 

 gestum (p. 19 as cited by Linnaeus) to "Aloe americana radice tuberosa foetida 

 major Pit Pita P. B. P. * * * Eadem minor non spinosa" which Plukenet 

 identifies with Aloe americana viridi rigidissimo et fcetido folio Piet dicto 

 indigenis of the Hort. Beaumont, but these identifications cannot be relied 011, 

 and all that can be said is that Linnaeus' Harlem plant was pretty certainly a 

 spineless Furcrcea. 



With respect to 1, it is a fair inference that Linne looked 

 on the two distinct plants that are often included under Agave 

 americana on the continent of Europe as forms of one species. 



We have not been able to inspect ** the figure published by 

 the elder Gommelin, but there is every likelihood that the glaucous 

 variety of Clifford's collection was the type known in the 

 Calcutta Garden as A . lurida and long supposed to be identical 

 with the Agave lurida of Alton's Hortus Rewemis. This garden 

 possesses plants received from the great collection of Sir Thomas 

 Hanbury at La Mortola as Agave lurida, which appear to us 



* What follows applies to the only copy to which we could refer: the 

 " Eadem minor non spinosa'' is what we should now call a subspecies, made by 

 Plukenet himself. 



** Since seen : it is evidently Agave lurida H. B. C. = A. Vera-Cruz. 

 Mill. 



