. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Spanish Bayonet 153 length; the bracts are thin and white, the flowers are stalked, drooping, their perianth beU-shaped, 8 to 12 cm. broad, thin and white; the segments are but slightly united at the base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a bluntish tip and hairy at the apex, the outer series merely sharp-pointed and about half the width of the inner ones; the stamens are about as long as the pistil; the ovary is
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Spanish Bayonet 153 length; the bracts are thin and white, the flowers are stalked, drooping, their perianth beU-shaped, 8 to 12 cm. broad, thin and white; the segments are but slightly united at the base, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a bluntish tip and hairy at the apex, the outer series merely sharp-pointed and about half the width of the inner ones; the stamens are about as long as the pistil; the ovary is sessile, greenish, abruptly narrowed into an oblong white style about 8 mm. long terminated by the white-lobed stigma. The fruit is short-stalked and erect, ob- long, to 5 cm. long, about three fourths as thick, smooth, rarely if at all con- stricted, blunt at the base, tipped with the short style, shghtly 3-lobed with convex ridges. The outer covering is thin, light brown, and woody; seeds numerous, often semicircular, 12 to 16 mm. long, thin and smooth with a brittle margin. When mature, the fruit splits into three 2-toothed carpels, releasing the seeds. The wood is very porous, brown or yellowish; its specific gravity is about The young inflorescence is collected just before opening, and eaten by the Mexicans and Indians. 2. SPANISH BAYONETâYucca gloriosa Linnaeus An inhabitant of the coastal region from North Carolina to northeastern Florida, rarely met in a wild state but frequently cultivated in the south for ornament, where it has become spontaneous, espe- cially in some of the Gulf States, reach- ing a maximum height of 5 meters, with a trunk diameter of dm.; usually, however, it is much smaller and at times quite stemless. It is also known as Spanish dagger. The trunk is stout, usually simple, rarely branched; branches, when pres- ent, very short and bearing relatively few leaves. The rind at the base of the trunk is thick, rather smooth, and Ught gray.
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