. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. LILIACEAE. Vol. I. 15. YUCCA L. Sp. PL 319. 1753. Large plants, with a short sometimes subterranean caudex, or tall woody and leafy stem, or bracted scape, the leaves linear or lanceolate, usually rigid and sharp-pointed, bearing long marginal thread-like fibers in our species. Flowers large, bracted, nodding in a ter- minal raceme or panicle. Perianth campanul
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. LILIACEAE. Vol. I. 15. YUCCA L. Sp. PL 319. 1753. Large plants, with a short sometimes subterranean caudex, or tall woody and leafy stem, or bracted scape, the leaves linear or lanceolate, usually rigid and sharp-pointed, bearing long marginal thread-like fibers in our species. Flowers large, bracted, nodding in a ter- minal raceme or panicle. Perianth campanulate, or nearly globular, white in our species, of 6 ovate, or ovate-lanceolate separate or slightly united segments. Stamens hypogynous, shorter than the perianth; filaments thickened above, often papillose; anthers small, versa- tile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; or imperfectly 6-celled; ovules numerous; style columnar, short, with 3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a loculicidal or septicidal capsule, or fleshy, or spongy and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, flattened, horizontal. [The Haytien name.] About 16 species, natives of North and Central America. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, drooping. Fruit an erect capsule. Leaves a"-6" wide; scape short, bearing a long raceme. Leaves io"-2' wide; scape 2°-io° high, bearing a large panicle, Type species: Yucca aloifolia L. 1. Y. baccata. Y. glauca. Y. i. Yucca baccata Torr. Spanish Bayonet or Dagger. Fig. 1277. Yucca baccata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 221. 1859. Caudex very short, or sometimes 2°-8° tall, covered with the reflexed dead leaves. Leaves ii°-3° long, i'-2' wide with a much wider base, acuminate, with a stout brown point, concave, the marginal fibers 2'-5' long; panicle peduncled; pedicels stout, 8"-2o" long; flowers 4'-s' broad; perianth-segments 2J-3J' long, 8"-l2" wide; style slender, as long as the ovary, or shorter; fruit oval, dark purple, fleshy, indehiscent, edible, drooping,
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