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14. — Yucca filifeia. 



of Monterey. The Pahna is common in the plains between 

 Saltillo and Parras ; it was seen by Dr. Parry as far 

 south as San Louis Potosi, and it will be found, no 

 doubt, to extend widely over the high dry plains of 

 north-eastern Mexico. 



This tree is often cultivated by the Mexicans at both 

 Monterey and Saltillo, the young plants being used to 

 form high impenetrable hedges about houses and stock- 

 yards; and flowering plants, from Roezl's introduction, are 

 not rare in the gardens of Southern France, Algeria and 

 northern Italy. It is hardy, according to Naudin*, wher- 

 ever the Orange will thrive. Our illustrations (fig. 13, 

 P- 78, fig. 14, p. 79) are from photographs taken near 

 Monterey by Mr. J. M. Codman. C. S. S. 



*Maimddel'Acclimatrur, p. 558. 



Chionopliila Janiesii.* 



IN 182 1 Dr. Edwin James accompanied as naturalist the 

 government party which, under Capt. Long, ascended 

 the South Platte, skirted the eastern base of the Rocky 

 Mountains as far southward as Colorado Springs, and thence 

 returned east by way of the Arkansas. F'rom Colorado 

 Springs Dr. James made the first ascent of what is now 

 known as Pike's Peak, and theregathered the first collection 

 that had ever been made of the alpine plants of western 

 America. Among them was a single specimen of the plant 



*C. Jamesh, Bentii. in DC. Prodr. x. 351. A dwarf alpine perennial, jjjiabrous or 

 nearly so, with thickish entire oblont^-lanceolate radical leaves : stems scape-like, 

 bearing one or two pairs of narrowly linear leaves and a close secund imbricatcly 

 bracted spike ; calyx broadly funnelform, with five short blunf teeth ; corolla 

 cream-color, tubular, half an inch long^ with short bilabiate limb and bearded in 

 the throat ; sterile fiiatuent glabrous. 



