270 BOTANY. 



hardly as long as the scape; flowers 8" in diameter, dark orange-yellow, 

 on pedicels jointed ai or l»b>iv the middle; seeds 4-7 in each cell, black. 

 Stamens shorter than the Btyle. From the descriptions and from the 



scanty material at my command, I infer that this is an excessively variable 

 plant — Southern Arizona (537). 



Smilacina stiiXLATa, Desf. — Utah, and South Park, Colorado (f;53). 



Yucca* baccata, 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 o-G" wide; raceme almost simple, spike-like, sessile; flowers usually 

 greenish-white; dry capsule erect, large (2i-3' long and half as wide), open- 

 ing with three valves through the dissepiments, each usually splitting again 

 tit tip; seeds very thin, flat, 5-6" in diameter. — Engelm. I. c. 50. 



Santa Fe', New Mexico, Rothrock (OG), and from the Missouri plains to 

 Texas and Arizona. 



A more showy variety is ft. data, 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. 



VERATRUMf album, L. — Mount Graham, Arizona, at 9,500 feet eleva- 

 tion (395); Utah. 



*Dr. Engelmann has kindly furnished the portion on Yucca. 



t'l'his Kpeciinen waa Bret Darned as above. Since this, however, Mr. Watson h;is marked a speci- 

 men for the Pbilad, Acad. Nat. Sciences as Verainm Califomicam, Dnrand. In vol. v, King's Report, p. 

 344, lie regards Dunuid's opecies as a mote loom 1\ panicled form of Vtratrum album, !>., and also oonsid- 



