LILIACE. 
SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 
23 
YUCCA GLORIOSA. 
Spanish Dagger. 
LzEavEs thin, flat, or concave toward the apex, rough on the lower surface, dull or 
glaucous green. 
Yucca gloriosa, Linneus, Spec. 319 (1753). — Miller, Dict. 
ed. 8, No. 1. —Schoepf, Mat. Med. Amer. 48. — Walter, 
Fl. Car. 124. — Aiton, Hort. Kew. i. 465. — Salisbury, 
Prodr. 246. — Willdenow, Spec. ii. pt. i. 183. — Michaux, 
Fl. Bor-Am. i. 196. — Persoon, Syn. i. 378. — Andrews, 
: Bot. Rep. vii. t. 473. — Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. i. 18. — 
Bot. Mag. xxxi. t. 1260. — Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cult. 
ed. 2, ii. 201.— Pursh, #7. Am. Sept. i. 228. — Redouté, 
Liliacées, vi. t. 326, 327. — Nuttall, Gen. i. 218. — 
Haworth, Suppl. Pl. Succ. 37.— Elliott, Sk. i. 400. — 
Sprengel, Syst. ii. 41. — Roemer & Schultes, Syst. vii. pt. 
i. 720.— Dietrich, Syn. ii. 1094. — Kunth, Enum. iv. 
273. — Spach, Hist. Vég. xii. 286. — Regel, Gartenjlora, 
viii. 36. — Chapman, F7. 485. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. 
N. Car. 1860, iti. 94.— Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis 
Acad. iii. 38, 211, 213. — K. Koch, Dend’r. ii. pt. ii. 343. — 
Hemsley, The Garden, viii. 133, f£. — Watson, Proc. Am. 
Acad. xiv. 251.— Baker, Refugium Bot. v. t. 320; Jour. 
Linn. Soc. xviii. 225. — Trelease, Rep. Missouri Bot. 
Gard. ii. 163, t. 6, 7, 50; iv. 199. 
Yucca integerrima, Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. ii. 267 (1812). 
Yucca obliqua, Haworth, Syn. Pl. Succ. 69 (1812) ; Suppl. 
Pil. Succ. 37.— Sprengel, Syst. ii. 41.— Roemer & 
Schultes, Syst. vii. pt. i. 721. — Kunth, Hnum. iv. 274. — 
Spach, Hist. Vég. xii. 287. — Regel, Gartenflora, viii. 36; 
xvii. t. 580. . 
Yucca acuminata, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ii. t. 195 
(1827). — Kunth, Enum. iv. 274. — Spach, Hist. Vég. xii. 
287. — Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870, 1123; Refugium Bot. 
vy. t. 316. 
Yucca gloriosa maculata, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1859, 
430. 
Yucca gloriosa glaucescens, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860, 
360. 
Yucca gloriosa nobilis, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860, 360. 
Yucca gloriosa nobilis parviflora, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 
1860, 361. 
Yucca gloriosa minor, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860, 361. — 
Baker, Refugium Bot. v. t. 319; Jour. Linn. Soc. xviii. 
225. 
Yucca gloriosa mollis, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860, 362. 
Yucca gloriosa tristis, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1860, 363. 
Yucca gloriosa acuminata, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1868, 
157. — Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. xviii. 226. 
Yucca gloriosa robusta, Carritre, Rev. Hort. 1868, 158. 
Yucca patens, André, Jl. Hort. 1870, 121, t. 
Yucca tortulata, Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870, 1122. 
Yucca pruinosa, Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870, 1122. 
Yucca Boerhaavii, Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870, 1217 ; Jour. 
Linn. Soc. xviti. 224. 
Yucca Ellacombei, Baker, Refugiwm Bot. v. t. 317 (1872). 
Yucca gloriosa, var. obliqua, Baker, Jour. Linn. Soe. 
xviii. 225 (1881). 
Yucca gloriosa, var. Ellacombei, Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 
xviii. 226 (1881). 
Yucca gloriosa, var. tortulata, Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 
xviii. 226 (1881). 
Yucca gloriosa, var. pruinosa, Baker, Jour. Linn. Soc. 
xviii. 226 (1881). 
On the coast of South Carolina a tree, with a stem which varies from a few inches to six or eight 
feet in height and from four to six inches in diameter, simple or rarely furnished with a few short 
branches, and usually clothed to the base with pendent dead leaves; or in the gardens of more 
temperate regions often larger, with a stout trunk covered with smooth thick hght gray bark. The 
leaves are from two to two feet and a half in length, gradually narrowed above the broad base, and 
then gradually broadened to above the middle, where they vary from one and a half to two and a half 
inches in width; they are thin, flat, or slightly concave toward the apex, which is tipped with a stout 
dark red point, frequently longitudinally folded, dull and often glaucous green, and roughened on the 
under surface, especially above the middle, with margins which at first are pale and serrulate toward 
the base of the leaf but soon grow dark reddish brown, and usually, losing their teeth and becoming 
brittle, crumble away or occasionally separate into thin fibres. The flowers generally appear in October, 
or occasionally on some plants as early as July, in pubescent or glabrous panicles tapering toward 
