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IIKXAIVDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



violpara.^ A. acaulis, foliis dontatis (dentato-.sjn- 



nosis) scapo ramose, tubo corollse medio 

 angustato, staminibus corollam JBquau- 

 tibus. fVilld.Sp.PL2.pAWS. Hort.Kcw. 



2 p. 302. 



Silk-Grass. 



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HugJiea. 224.t 



Viviparous or Child ing Agave. MUkr. 



BllOMELIA. 



Coronarisc. Lin. — Broiiielia^ Jw«-9.— Bronicliacea;. Do Cand. 



Anana,s\ B. foliis ciliato-spinosis mucroriatisj spica 



r 



comosa. TVilld. Sp. PL 2. p. 7. Hart. 



Kew. 2. p. 200. AuU.mi. 



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h^lil 



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it iTiarked as Agave americana in the Botanic Garden at 

 Geneva, which is under the immediate superintendence of M. 

 De Candolle, 



* In the Agave americana the seeds vegetate, and the j'onng 

 plants grov^ to be several inches long before they are separated 

 from the parent stem, so that it is as strictly vivi[)arous as this 

 species, which has been distinguished specifically by tlie appel- 

 lation vivipara. The A. americana is very generally called 

 Silk-Grass in Barbados, and is the species principally planted as 

 hedges: tlic A. vivijtara being mostly found in gullies, and 

 of accidental grov^th, 



t Not the Silk'Grass of Jamaica vkl—Lon^. 2. p. SI 1. 



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