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Aloe spicata, Tlumberg. 
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 coidd also here readily he utilized for 
this and allied plants. Dr. Sibthorp identified this species 
with the ’AXo'vj 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 Eoxtail Hrass. 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. Eor 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, this 
