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Liliaceae Yucca 



1. MUSCARI BOTRYOIDES (L.) Mill. Common Grape-hyacinth. This 

 species is commonly cultivated and has been reported as an escape in sev- 

 eral parts of the state. I have never collected it except in our own orchard 

 where it has escaped. 



Nat. of s. Eu. and Asia. 



2. Muscari racemosum (L.) Mill. Starch Grape-hyacinth. There 

 are only two reports of this as an escape although it may also be wider in 

 distribution than our reports indicate. Nieuwland (Amer. Midland Nat. 

 3: 107. 1913) says: "Very well established in a sandy field northwest of 

 St. Mary's, Notre Dame, and spreading along a road very fast." In 1910 

 I found it frequent to common all over a 10-acre clover field on the Aaron 

 Wolfe farm about 7 miles northwest of Corydon. 



Nat. of Eu. 



1103. YUCCA [Rupp.] L. 



1. Yucca filamentosa L. Common Yucca. This yucca has been re- 

 ported as an escape several times and remarks have been made as to its 

 persistence and its ability to spread. It is frequently planted in cemeteries 

 from which it has most often escaped. I recall having seen it covering a 

 hillside near a cemetery in Crawford County near the Blue River Church. 

 I also saw it in a woods as an escape from a cemetery in Fulton County. 

 It is so massive that I have never collected it. 



In the original Coblentz edition of "Travels in the Interior of North 

 America" published in 1839-41, Prince Maximilian writes of his travels 

 from Owensville, Gibson County to Vincennes, on June 10, 1834, as fol- 

 lows : "The region on the other side [north side of the White River, which 

 he crossed in the vicinity of what is now known as Hazelton] changes 

 considerably ; and here appears in a now again sandy soil nearly the same 

 plants as are found in the sandy soil and the prairies of St. Louis, with 

 the addition of a few new ones, a fire-colored lily (Lilium catesbaei), the 

 great-flowered lady slipper (Cypripedium spectabile), a species of Yucca, 

 and many others." It is not known what species Maximilian saw. It may 

 have been this one or Yucca glauca Nutt. both of which may have at that 

 time extended up the Mississippi Valley into Indiana. 



Nat. from N. C. along the coast to Fla. and westw. to Miss, and Tenn. ; 

 beyond this area probably escaped. 



1113. ASPARAGUS [Tourn.] L. 



1 . Asparagus officinalis L. Garden Asparagus. Map 650: Asparagus 

 has been reported from many counties and I have found it in several. I 

 recall seeing only a few colonies of it, but usually single specimens here 

 and there along roads, railroads, and streams and in fallow grounds and 

 open woodland. We have had it in cultivation for years and I have rarely 

 found a seedling near our cultivated plants but it is sporadic all over 

 our field and orchard and along our fences. 



Nat. of Eu. 



