LILIACEAE. 
2. Aletris aurea Walt. Yellow Colic- 
root. (Fig. 1024.) 
Aletris aurea Walt. Fl, Car. 121. 1788. 
Basal leaves shorter than those of the preced- 
ing species, 1%4’-3’ long, 3//-8’’ wide, acumi- 
nate, narrowed into short petioles. Scape 1°- 
2%° tall, bearing a few subulate bract-like 
leaves; raceme 8/’-2° long, usually loose; pedi- 
cels 1’ long or less, shorter than the bracts; 
perianth bell-shaped or ovoid-globose, bright 
yellow, 2’’-3’’ long, 114’/-2’’ in diameter, its 
lobes oval; style short; capsule ovoid, about as 
long as the perianth. 
Southern New Jersey (according to Gray and to 
Rusby); Virginia to Florida and Texas. June-Aug. 
14. YUCCA L, Sp. Pl. 319. 1753. 
Large plants, with a short sometimes subterranean caudex, or tall woody and leafy stem, 
or bracted scape, the leaves linear or lanceolate, usually rigid and sharp-pointed, bearing 
long marginal thread-like fibres in our species. Flowers large, bracted, nodding in a ter- 
minal raceme or panicle. Perianth campanulate, or nearly globular, white in our species, 
of 6 ovate, or ovate-lanceolate separate or slightly united segments. Stamens hypogynous, 
shorter than the perianth; filaments thickened above, often papillose; anthers small, versa- 
tile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; or imperfectly 6-celled; ovules numerous; style columnar, 
short, with 3 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a loculicidal or septicidal capsule, or fleshy,.or spongy 
and indehiscent. Seeds numerous, flattened, horizontal. [The Haytien name. ] 
About 16 species, natives of North and Central America. 
Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, drooping. 1. ¥. baccata. 
Fruit an erect capsule. 
Leaves 2''-5'’ wide; scape short, bearing a long raceme. 2. ¥. glauca. 
Leaves 10'’-2' wide; scape 2°-10° high, bearing a large panicle. 3. V. filamentiosa. 
1. Yucca baccata Torr. Spanish 
Bayonet. (Fig. 1025.) 
Yucca baccata Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 221. 
1859. 
Caudex very short, or sometimes 2°-S° tall, 
covered with the reflexed dead leaves. Leaves 
144°-3° long, 1/-2’ wide with a much wider 
base, acuminate, with a stout brown point, 
concave, the marginal fibres 2’-5’ long; pan- 
icle peduncled ; pedicels stout, 8’’-20’’ long; 
flowers 4’-5’ broad; perianth-segments 2!5/— 
34’ long, 8’’-12’’ wide; style slender, as long 
as the ovary, or shorter; fruit oval, dark pur- 
ple, fleshy, indehiscent, edible, drooping 2/- 
3/ long, 144’-2’ in diameter, with a 6-grooved 
beak of one-half its length or less; seeds 3/’ 8/’ 
long, 1/7-1 14’ thick. 
Western Kansas (?) southern Colorado to Texas, 
California and Mexico, April-June. Fruit ripe 
Sept.—Oct. 
