THE YTJCCEAE. 39 



thin, flat ; albumen not ruminated. Subacaulescent 

 plants with straight needle-pointed rough-margined flat 

 leaves, and ample panicle. 



H. WHIPPLEI (Torrey) Baker, Kew Bull. 1892: 8. Tre- 

 lease, Eept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 208. pi. 16, 23. 



Yucca Whipplei Torrey, Bot. Bound. 222. (1859). Baker, Gard. 

 Chron. 1870:828. 1871 1 1516. n. s. 6: 196. /. 42. n. s. 23: 796. 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 230. Palmer, Amer. Joum. Pharm. 50 : 

 687. Garden. 27 : 266. 35 : 561. /. Engelmann, Bot. King. 497. 

 Trans. Acad. St. Louis. 3:54, 214, 372. Watson, Proc. Amer. 

 Acad. 14 : 254. Bot. Calif. 2 : 164. AndrS, Rev. Hort. 58 : 67. 

 /. 13, Smith, Gard. Chron. iii. 13 : 749. Coville, Contr. U. S. 

 Natl. Herb. 4: 203. Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna. 7:359. Tre- 

 lease, Eept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 3: 164. pi. 11,12, 54. Gard. & For. 

 8 : 414-5. /. Hooker, Bot. Mag. iii. 65. pi. 7662. Land of Sun- 

 shine. 11 : 251. /. Orcutt, West Amer. Scientist. 6 : 134. 



Y. Whipplei glauca Wiener 111. Gart.-Zeit. 14 : 197. 



Y. Whipplei graminifolia Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 : 230. 



Y. aloifolla Torrey, Pac. R. R. Rept. 4 : 147. 



Y. fllamentosa Home and Flowers. II 2 : 12. /. 



Y. graminifolia Wood, Proc. Phil. Acad. 1868 : 167. 



Y. Ortgiesiana Roezl, Belg. Hort. 1880 : 61. 



Y. Engelmanni Gard. Chron. n. s. 14 : 43. (1880). 



? Y. Californica Greenland, Rev. Hort. 1858 : 434. Lemaire, 111. 

 Hort. 10 : after pi. 372. (1863). 13 ; 96. Gard. Chron. n. s. 

 5 : 794, 829. 



Simple or, in the mountains, frequently cespitose. Leaves ascending, 

 rigid, .3 to 1 m. long, about 15 mm. wide, plano-convex, subtriquetrous, 

 or keeled on both faces, sometimes falcate, striate, glaucous, keenly but 

 finely denticulate, with very slender pungent end spine. Inflorescence 2 

 to 5 m. high, oblong, long peduncled, glabrous. Flowers Yucca-like, 

 pendent, fragrant. Capsule about 5 cm. long: seeds 6 to 7X8 mm. 

 Plates 4, f. 2. 5. 81, f. 9. 



California, from the mountains above Monterey to the 

 vicinity of Alamo, lower California; eastward to the vicin- 

 ity of San Bernardino Plate 84, f. 1. 



Yucca WJiipplei is the name proposed by Dr. Torrey, 

 and still commonly employed, for a plant which, when in 

 bloom, forms one of the most striking and beautiful fea- 

 tures of the Coast-range vegetation of southern California. 



