1894 
* YUCCA Draconis: 
Dragon-tree-leaved Adams Needle. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LILIACEA. = 
YUCCA. —Suprà, vol. 20. fol. 1690. 1 
Y. Draconis; arborescens, foliis laxê capitatis subreflexis ensiformibus acumi- 
natis marginé scabris, paniculis ramosis, perianthiis patentissimis. 
Y. Draconis. Haworth, Suppl. p. 33. 4 Romer $ Schult. Syst. veg. 7. 716. 
Elliott Fl. South Carol, 1. 401. 1 
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What may be species and what varieties in this noble 
genus, it is in the present stat “of botanical information im- 
possible to say ; there is however but little doubt that the 
two plants which form the subject of this and the succeeding 
plate are really distinct. 
“This, which I presume is the Y. Draconis of Haworth 
and Elliott, at least, whatever it may be of others, is one of 
the most stately of the genus ; it grows along the sea-shore 
of Carolina, frequently intermixed with Yucca gloriosa, and 
flowers from May to August; it sometimes grows as much 
as 9-or 10 dhigh. “The great peculiarity by which it 
appearsto bè distinguished is the spreading | flowers, whose 
segments, instead. o! remáining closed in a globose manner 
as în most others, expand till they diverge from the flower- 
stalk at nearly a right angle. 
The drawing was made in the garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society, in July, 1835; and about the same time I 
received it from the Núrsery of the Messrs. Backhouse of 
York, with whom it had been growing in the open groùnd 
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* See folio 1690. 
