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Yucca ALOIFOLIA. ‘TALL-STEMMED. 
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Generic Charafer.—Vide No. 900. 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
YUCCA aloifolia ; caudice arborefcente, frugifero foliis ali- 
quoties altiore; foliis numerofiffimis, lapfu inferiorum 
excelfe terminalibus, lanceolato-ligulatis, ftri€tiffimis, fub- 
tiliter denticulatis, juxta fupra bafin anguftatis, interioribus 
ereétius conniventibus; panicula racemofa, numerofa, fub- 
conferta, pyramidata, divaricata, ramulis laxis; corolla 
nutante. G. 
YUCCA alosfolia. Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2.1. 457. Mill. Did. ed. 
8. 2.2. Hort. Kew. 1. 465. ed. 2. 2.291. Decand. Pl. Gr. 
tab. 20.  Desfont. Traité des Arbres. 1. 18. Lil. a Redouté. 
tab. 401, 402. Mich. Bor. Amer. 1.196. Purl Amer. Sept. 
1. 228. 
YUCCA gloriofs. Bot. Repofit. 473; (nec aliorum.) 
Y. arborefcens foliis rigidioribus, re€lis, ferratis. Déllen. Hort. 
Elth. 435. tab. 326. fig. 416. 
ALOE yucce foliis caulefcens. Pluk. Alm, 19. t. 256. f. 4. 
A. americana, yucca foliis arborefcens. Comm, Prelud. 64. 
tab. 14. a Se 
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The moft lofty of its genus yet known to us; the ftem rifing 
fometimes tonear eighteen feet higheven inthis country. The aves 
are narrower and fliffer than in g/oriofa (fee above, No. 1260), 
and their edges finely ferrate and not entire as in that; the 
panicle much clofer flowered, from two to three feet high; 
flowers faffufed with purple on the outfide. It does not bloom 
fo freely as the two fpecies already given in this work; and when it 
does the head decays, others fprouting out below. Ufually kept in 
the greenhoufe or confervatory, where we have feen vigorous 
plants, ten feet high and as thick as a man’s arm, in garden-pots not 
more than a foot deep. It is faid to thrive better in the open 
ground, 
