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Mexandria . 
spreading ; spatlre two-cleft, many flowered ; umbel 
crowded, stigma simple. 
Al. Ursinum , Broad-leaved Garlic or Ramsons ; with 
a naked semi-cylindrical stem, and lanceolate leaves oh 
foot-stalks ; perennial ; flowers in May and June, and 
is common in woods and moist meadows. 
Al. Vine ale. Crow Garlic ; with round-leafed bul- 
biferous stem, and stamens three pointed ; perennial ; 
flowers in July, and is not uncommon in dry pastures 
-and on old 'walls. 
To the same genus belong Al. Schcenoprasum, or 
Chive Garlic, Al. Porrum , the garden leek, and AL 
Cepa, the cultivated onion. 
Agave Americana , American Aloe. Cor. superior, 
six cleft, limb erect, shorter than the filaments ; leaves 
somewhat compressed, dagger-shaped, spinous, toothed 
on the edges. This splendid plant is a native of the 
rocky hills of Jamaica ; it is several years before it 
throws up the flower stem, which, in a vigorous plant, 
rises to the height of eight or ten, and sometimes, it is 
said, twenty feet, adorned with a prodigious number 
of yellow flowers, which render it conspicuous at the 
distance of many miles. It appears to be viviparous in 
its native soil : it seldom flowers in the stove in this 
•country ; but it is a vulgar mistake that it puts forth its 
blossoms only once in a hundred years. This seems 
to depend on the management and state of the plant. 
Hyacinthus. Gen. Char.- — Cor. inferior, six-cleft, 
somewhat bell-shaped ; stamens inserted in the tube. 
Hyac. Nonscriptus, {scilla nutans of Smith.) Wild 
