f 149 J 

 Agaveae (also certain other fibre plant*) or to their 



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Martins says tlmt there is a drawing with the supplement of Oviedo 

 which shows as the original Maguey a smaller plant than either 

 A. americana or Purer aea cubensis, and suggests that it may 

 have been Agave vivipara, but by this he did not mean perhaps 

 Agave WigUii (J) of this Bulletin. 



Oviedo quoted by Martins (Beitrag, p. 10) says that on the mainland 

 in the country of Araya there is a nation on whose lauds the 

 Maguey is so abundant that they are called 'Magueyes.' The 

 allusion is perhaps to the Maya plantations. From a recent work 

 on Costa Rica reviewed in Nature No. 184,6, dated 16th March 1905, 

 it appears that parts of the Isthmus were held in the 16th century 

 by a civilized race called Mangue. 



The first mention of Maguey is by this author who says the ancient 

 inhabitants of Haiti had a sort of drum or cymbal which was 

 called Maguey. Martius thinks that these drums may have been 

 made from the scape of an Agavea. 



Squier rightly distinguished the Pulque Agave from the so-called 

 'A. americana,' but Agave mexicana of Lamarck is a misnomer, 

 and the Agave mexicana of Moore (in Gardener's Chionicle) is 

 more pi obably Agave (F) as to which see ' Tequila '. Bates (in 

 Stanford's Compendium) also calls the Maguey A. americana 

 and supposes that there is only one species throughout the * Tierra 

 Templada ' from Zapotlan eastwards. 



A. Salmiana, Otto is commonly identified with A. atroviren* 

 Karwinski, which is said to be one of the chief Pulque Agaves 

 in the State of Mexico. A large Agave is met with in gardem 

 on the Continent of Europe under the name of A. Salmiana, 

 Our Agave (0) appears to be near this species. 



Meaning 'Wild Maguey/ Travellers have frequently reported finding 

 4 Agave americana' wild, but truly wild examples of Linnaeus' 

 A. americana, of the Pulque Agaves, and of A. sisalana, if they 

 exist, remain to be discovered. 



See Tequila. 



See Maguey mansojind. Beni ay the scientific name is ' Agave 

 Maesimilianaea.' 



Meaning * fine cultivated Maguey/ to distinguish a plantation kind 

 from spontaneous hedge Agaves. It is unlikely that the term 

 is restricted to the one species. A Mexican writer professes to 

 have distinguished over 16 sorts in the Apam tract alone which 

 is the princial Pulque-making area. He must have taken count 

 of very fine distinctions, but even so the statement is significant. 



An Indian tribe of Central America in the 16th century * named from 

 the Agave/ See Maguey (2), but cf . the next also. 



