304 TRILLIACEAE 
6. Y. aloifolia L. Caudex often 1-2.5 m. tall, commonly branched: leaves 
very numerous, spreading above, deflexed and deeiduous below, seabrous- 
margined: paniele ample and showy, 8-7 dm Tu sepals and petals 4-6 em 
and- 
long: capsule 7-9 em. long.— ( SPANISH- DAGGER. )— dunes and shell- mounds, 
Coastal Plain, Fla. to La. a a N. C.—(W. I. ied E escaping in pro- 
vinces- beyond its 21i ange. The fibe er from the leaves of this, and of 
other species of yucca, h id been used by pioneers to make Pm and for string 
for hanging up cured. mea 
2. NOLINA Michx. Caudex short, the greatly elongate entire or serrulate 
leaves spreading on the ground. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, in a virgate or 
branching panicle. Sepals i petals d cie entire, marcescent. Ovules 2 
in each cavity. Capsule broader than long or as broad as long. Seeds pale.— 
About 12 species, natives of North America.—Spr. 
Ovary rounded at the ur capsule not notched, at least at the base. 
Capsule symmetrical, 8-10 mm. wide : seeds loosely invested 
by the eapsule 1. N. georgiana. 
id den unsymmetr rical, 3-4 mm. wide: seeds closely in- 
ed by the capsule. 2. N. atopocarpa. 
Ovary a at the apex: capsule conspicuously notched 
at both ends. 3. N. Brittoniana. 
N. georgiana Michx. Plant 5-15 
din. tall: blades of the basal leaves 3-5 
mm. wide: sepals and petals mostly ob- 
long, is 3 mm.. eni anthers mostly 
oblong: capsule sharply 3-lobed.—Pine- 
at and sandhills, Coastal Plain, Fla. 
o S. C. 
2. N. ko Bartlett. Plant 8- 
15 dm tall: blades of the basal leaves 
m 
mm 
bou 
glo obular: capsule obtusely 3-lobed.—Pine- 
lands, E pen. Fla. 
3. N. Brittoniana Nash. Plant 10-20 dm. tall: leaf-blades 6—18 mm. wide 
paniele with ereet or strongly vidue branehes: sepals and petals conspicu- 
ously glandular at the apex: capsule 9-12 mm. wide, the walls opaque. —Dry 
pinelands, pen. Fla. 
Faminy 9. TRILLIACEAE —WaAKE-ROBIN FAMILY 
Perennial herbs with rootstocks. Leaves in a whorl on the stem 
basal and wanting on the mature plant: blades broad. MM leaf- like 
in a whorl at the top of the scape or peduncle. Flowers ac solitary 
rin a terminal cluster. Calyx of 3 sepals. Corolla of 3 petals more or 
less different from the sepals. oe of 6 stamens. Coa of 
3 united carpels. Stigmas 3. Ovules several in each ovary-cavity. Fruit 
baccate —Four genera and 34 specie. ees of the north temperate zone. 
Flowers several in an umbel-like cluster: sepals A petals nearly alike: flowering 
stem with a whorl of leaves and a whorl of bra 1. MEDEOLA. 
Flowers solitary: sepals and petals very dierent : flowering stem 
(scape) with only a whorl of leaf-like brac 2. TRILLIUM. 
