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Yucca gloriosa inhabits the coasts and islands of South Carolina, in the immediate neighborhood 
of the sea, where it grows among sand-dunes and on the borders of beaches, and is exceedingly rare. 
The wood of Yucca gloriosa has not been examined. 
Yucca gloriosa, notwithstanding its rarity in its native country, was one of the first species of 
the genus cultivated in Europe,' where several forms are recognized, and it is now found in the 
gardens and pleasure grounds of all temperate countries.” 
panicle is puberulous, and the filaments, which equal the pistil in 
length, are slightly papillose. 
By Engelmann (Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii. 41), Yucca ensifolia 
(Baker, Gard. Chron. 1870, 1217; Refugium Bot. v. t. 318) and 
Yucca Ellacombei (Baker, Refugium Bot. t. 317 [1873] are con- 
sidered forms connecting his variety recurvifolia with the typical 
plant. 
Yucca gloriosa, var. 6 planifolia (Engelmann, J. c. 39 [1873]) is 
based on a single specimen, cultivated in the Botanic Garden at 
Genoa as Yucca glauca, with a short trunk, long, narrow, and not at 
all plicated leaves, smaller whitish flowers with filaments as long as 
the pistil, and small anthers entire above. 
1 Yucca or Jucca, Gerarde, Herball, 1359. — Ray, Hist. Pl. ii. 
1201. 
Yucca foliis Aloes, C. Bauhin, Pinax, 91. — Boerhaave, Ind. Alt. 
Hort. Lugd. Bat. ii. 132. 
Lucca sive Yucca, India putata. — Parkinson, Theatr. 153, f. 
Yuca sive Iucca, Parkinson, Parad. 434, £ 
Yucca sive Iucca vera foliis Aloes, Morison, Pl. Hist. ii. 419, t. 23, 
f. 1. 
Yucca foliorum margino integerrimo, Linneus, Hort. Cliff. 130 ; 
Hort. Ups. 88. 
Yucca foliis jntegerrimis, Linneus, Virid. Cliff. 29. 
Cordyline foliis pungentibus integerrimis, Royen, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. 
22. 
Yucca Indica, foliis aloes, Barrelier, Icon. Pl. 70, t. 1194 (teste 
Linneus, Spec. 319). 
2 Varieties with leaves striped with white or yellow are occa- 
sionally cultivated in European gardens as Yucca pendula variegata, 
Carriére (Rev. Hort. 1875, 400), Yucca gloriosa medio picta, and 
Yucca gloriosa marginata, Carriére (J. c. 1880, 259). 
In European gardens, Yucca gloriosa recurvifolia is sometimes 
cultivated as Yucca Japonica (see Carriére, l. c. 1859, 488). 
