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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 Mediter- 

 ranean Sea, also Canary Islands, on the sandy or rocky sea 

 coast. Such places could also here readily be utilized for 

 this and allied plants. Dr. Sibthorp identified this species 

 with the 'AhoTj 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 culti- 

 vated state. Haworth found the leaves of this and of A. 

 striata softer and more succulent than those of any other 

 aloe. It is said to be the only species with yellow flowers 

 among those early known. It is also this species only, which 

 Professor Willkomm and Professor Parlatore record as truly 

 wild in Spain and Italy. 



Aloe Zeyheri, Harvey. 



South Africa. A magnificent, 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 proved less. Sheep thrive well on 

 it. Sinclair and others found that this grass, when exclu- 

 sively combined with white clover, will support from the 

 second season five ewes and five lambs on an acre of sandy 

 loam. But this grass, to thrive well, needs land not 

 altogether dry. In all permanent artificial pastures, thia 



