270 BOTANY. 
hardly as long as the scape; flowers 8” in diameter, dark orange-yellow, 
on pedicels jointed at or below the middle; seeds 4—7 in each cell, black. 
Stamens shorter than the style. From the descriptions and from the 
scanty material at my command, I infer that this is an excessively variable 
plant—Southern Arizona (537). 
SmILacIna sTELLATA, Desf—Utah, and South Park, Colorado (953). 
Yucca* saccata, Torr.—A stout species, northward stemless, south- 
ward with a low or higher trunk; leaves rigid and rough, 1-3° long, 1-2’ 
wide, with a stout terminal spine, the margin with few but thick fibres; 
panicle oval, almost sessile, with large, thick, whitish bracts; flowers mostly 
large, 2-3’ long; fruit pendulous, pulpy, containing numerous thick seeds.— 
Bot. Mex Bound 221; Engelm. Trans. Ac. St. Louis, 3, 44. 
Arizona (only fruit collected) to New Mexico and South Colorado, 
extending into Southern California and Northern Mexico.—One of the 
coarsest-looking species of this beautiful genus, remarkable especially for 
its pendulous, edible fruit, which are called dates or bananas by the settlers, 
and are eaten by the Indians and others. 
Yucca ANGUSTIFOLIA, Pursh.—A stemless or almost stemless plant, with 
very rigid and sharp-pointed, linear, sparingly filamentose leaves 1-2° long 
and 3-6” wide; raceme almost simple, spike-like, sessile; flowers usually 
greenish-white; dry capsule erect, large (2$-3' long and half as wide), open- 
ing with three valves through the dissepiments, each usually splitting again 
at tip; seeds very thin, flat, 5-6’ in diameter—Engelm. 1. c. 50. 
Santa Fé, New Mexico, Rothrock (66), and from the Missouri plains to 
Texas and Arizona. 
A more showy variety is 7. elata, Engelm. 1. c., with a trunk several feet 
high, very rigid, glaucous leaves, often almost without fibres on the edge; 
an expanded branching panicle, with larger, showy, white flowers —Camp 
Grant, Arizona, Rothrock (382), and Dr. Palmer. 
VERATRUM{ ALBUM, L.—Mount Graham, Arizona, at 9,500 feet eleva- 
tion (395); Utah. 
*Dr. Engelmann has kindly furnished the portion on Yucca. 
This specimen was first named as above. Since this, however, Mr. Watson has marked a speci- 
men for the Philad. Acad. Nat. Sciences as Veratrum Californicum, Durand. In vol. v, King’s Report, p. 
344, he regards Durand’s species as a more loosely panicled form of Veratrum album, L., and also consid- 
