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Yucca Filamentosa. Thready Adam's 



Needle. 



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Clafs and Order. 



Hexandria Monocynia. 



Generic Characler. 



Cor. hexapetalo-partita, campanulata. Slam, filamcntis fu- 

 pcrne craffioribus ; anthcris minimis. Stigm. 3, fcffilia. Cap/. 

 (Bacca carnofa G<ertn.) obtufe trigona. Sem. plana. 



Specific Cbaratler and Synonyms. 



YUCCA filamcntofa (acaulis) foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, mar- 



ginibus diftanter filifcris ; lligmatibus recurvato- 



patentibus. G. 

 YUCCA filamentofa. Syjl. Vegetab. Mttrr. 337. Mill DM. 4. 



Gron. Virg. 152 ; 58. Trew Ebret. /. 37. //'.'. 



Kew. 1. 465. li'tl Id. Sp. PL 2. 184. Michaux Bor. 



Bor-Amcr. 1. 196. 

 YUCCA foliis filamentofis. Mori/, llijl. 2. p. 419. 

 YUCCA virginiana foliis per marginem apprimc hlatis. Pink. 



Jim. 396. 



According to Michaux a native of the weftem parts of 

 Carolina and Virginia, growing on wilds neat the fea-fhore, 

 with a (1cm rifing fometimes to the height of live feci. 

 An old inhabitant of our gardens, having been cultivated 

 in them as far back as 1675. Hardy. Wry ornamental ; 

 flowers about September or Oftober. Is not uncommon in 

 our Nurferics ; propagated by fuckers. G. 



ERRATA. 



No. 854, 1. 14, pro " Lachekalia anguftifolia," lege " Lachikai rA 

 lancexfolia." 



No. 8q5, 1. 26, for " a flat two-edged rachii and pedicle*," read *' a fiat 

 two-edged ftalk and radus.'^ 



