
















‘bat ginal toothing is sometimes very obscure, and there is a trace of a 
brown border. Y. conspicua, of the Riviera gardens, is also a form of 
_ this species, and I have very litile doubt now that F. gigantea, Lemaire, 
_ which I know from description only, must also range here. It produces 
flowers copiously on the Riviera, but never ripens its fruit, : 
Y. desmetiana, Baker. This is evidently a distinct species, which 
attains a Aie size on the Riviera than with us at home, but ‘has not | 
n to flower. The finest plant I saw was in roy garden of the * 
aroas v von Huttner at San Remo, 5-6 feet high, the branching stems - 
3 inches in diameter, the recurving leaves a foot “and a half long, 1i inch 
roa 
: F "Peacochii, Baker. Grown at La Mortola, but has not yet 
. flowered. E 
Y. gloriosa, L. Not common in the Riviera; but I saw several forms — 
at Hyères. Y. pendula, Siebold, is substantially the same as our . 
recurvifolia. Y. brasiliensis is a form .with much recurved very - 
glaucous leaves. Y. glaucescens, Carrière, is a form of gloriosa, and 
~ quite different from Haworth’s plant so called. 
: To di Engelm.. This I saw alive for the first time at La 
or was acaulescent, with a great tuft of very rigid glaucous 
Mitsiform leaves, 2 feet long, | ich broad at the middle, with a very 
pungent sa and a narrow brown margin without any threads. It has 
not yet flow 
t i ulana, Carriere. This is grown along the whole Riviera, 
reaching a development ue bey em wide "d ,we have at home. 
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quite satisfied that canaliculata and cornuta are forms of the same 
: sage ies. 
Y. filamentosa, L. ‘This is represented at La Mortola by a fone 
which A em agrees with Seat glaucescens. 
ospica, Hort. own both at La Mortola and Hyiiel, in fine 
"5 Mdio. at the latter wish under the name of Y. elata. It is the 
a plant algo in my =e under the name of F. constricta. 
aker A ne p allied to albospica 
and Jragilifolia, the koodi of which were sent to La Mortola many 

ago. oy Eh 
is acaulescent, with a dense tuft of about 100 very rigid glaucous-green 
- leaves, 14 feet long, under half an inch broad at the middle, smooth on : 
the face, subscabrous on the back, with a pungent point, and a margin 
edged with brown with a white streak beyond the brown, from which . 
| @ very fow reri threads split away. It was not in flower at the 
time of my v ; 
Y- Vocent Torrey. What is commonly grown as baccata on the 
ie Y, filifera, Chabaud, which forms a trunk and inhabits 
3 P whilst the true baccata is acaulescent and inhabits California, 
Isaw nothing in situ to equal the grand trunk which has just been - 
Eu to "Kew from his garden at Cannes by M. de Fa Ibe. Isaw 



own under - 
maire’s name of Yucca californica. I now think this had better - 
kept as a genus distinct from Yucca, under Engelmann's name 
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