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Perianth-segments thick; nectar glands small; style wanting. 
3. Cletstoyucca. 
Perianth-segments thin; nectar glands large; style evident. 
4. Yucca. 
1. NOLINA. 
1. Noxina Parryr S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 247. 1879. 
Type locality: “California (western border of the San Bernardino 
Desert); Parry, 1876.” 
Distribution: Desert slopes of the oe Bernardino and the San 
Jacinto Mountains on the western border of the Colorado Desert. 
Lower Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Rattlesnake Canyon, San Bernardino 
Mountains, Parish 3145; Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mountains, 
altitude 2000 meters, Hall 2432; Southeastern base of Mount 
San Jacinto, altitude 1500 meters, Hall 1819; San Felipe, Bran- 
degee, April 30, 1894. 
2. HESPEROYUCCA. SpanisH BAYONET. 
1. Hesperoyucca Wuipp.et (Torr.) Baker, Kew Bull. 1892: 8. 
1892. 
Yucca Whipple: Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 222. 1859. 
Yucca gramintfolia Wood, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1868: 167. 1868. 
Yucca Whipple graminifolia Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 18: 230. 
1880. 
Type locality: “Near San Pasqual, southern California.” 
Distribution: Monterey County and the southern Sierra Nevada 
southward to the vicinity of Alamo, Lower California. In southern 
California the Spanish bayonet is common throughout the chapar- 
ral covered areas of the coast slope; it also occurs in the pifion belt 
of the desert slopes. A purple flowered form was collected by the 
writer (3547) in the foothills of San Diego County. In the vicinity 
of Fort Tejon (Abrams & McGregor 270) a more compact form, 
with flowers scarcely half the normal size, grows associated with 
typical plants. 
Specimens examined: Soldiers Camp, near Fort Tejon, Abrams 
€F McGregor 270, 271; Sulphur Mountain Spring, Abrams & 
McGregor 41; Sepulveda Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains, 
Abrams 2564; Cajon Pass, Bigelow, 1853; San Pasqual, Schott; 
near Dulzura, Abrams 3547. 
