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Y. Baccata, Torr. (Thick-leaved or Mountain 
Yucca). Stem short or none, leaves coarsely filamen- 
tous on the margin, very thick and rigid, 16 to 48 in. 
dong, 1to 2 wide, channeled or concave, with a very 
short brown spine. Common‘in the Pinon Soe. Much 
eaten by cattle in winter. 
Y. Guavcoa, Fraser. (The Mesa, Y.) Leaves 
straight and pointed, 1 to 3 ft. long and 1-4 to 1-2 
in. wide, smooth; raceme usually simple, 1 to 4 ft. long, 
flowers grenish-white or tinged with brown. Very 
common on the sandier parts of the mesa at the base 
of the mountains but not extending into them beyond 
the Candelabria Soc. (Y. angustifolia.) ‘“‘Amole.” 
(3). Noxinia, Mz. 
Trunk eylindrical and stout, leaves numerous, ser- 
rulate; flowering stem bearing compound panicle 
with very numerous flowers, pedicels solitary; flow- 
ers small, polygamo-dioecious, with persistent whitish 
oblong-lanceolate segmients, included stamens; dry and 
thin in-dehiscent fruit and subglobose light-colored 
seeds. 
N. Trexana, Watson. Stems several, 1 to 2 ft. high 
including the panicle, from a very short candex; leaves 
2 to 4 ft. long (but usually chewed off here) 1-2 in. 
wide, roughish on the margins covering the ground, 
panicle compound, the main bracts foliaceous and with 
dilated bases; pod 1-6 to 1-4 in. broad, on pedicles of 
about the same length; seed globose ne arly smooth, 1-6 
in. broad, bursting the cell. Common on the base of 
the Sandia Mts., the Manzanellas, etc. Among the 
rocks, evergreen. 
4, Vaanera. False Soloman’s-Seal. Also named 
Smilacina and Unifolium.) 
Perennials herbs with simple stems from a creeping 
rootstock; alternate, nerved, sessile leaves; white flow- 
ers, In a terminal raceme. 
V. steLtyata. Star-like S.S. 1 ft, high or less; 
leaves 7 to 12, oblong lanceolate, slightly clasping; ra- 
ceme simple, sessile or nearly so; berries blackish. In 
Spruce-Acer-Robinia Assn. of Sandia Mts. 
5. Catocuortus, Pursh. Mountain Tulip. Stems 
slender; leaves few, linear-lanceolate, the 1-3 cauline 
alternate clasping, with many nerves; open bell-shaped 
flowers much the shape of a small tulip; with densely 
hairy glands; the pod oblong, obtusely angled. 
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