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Descriptive Flora 



Nolina lindheimeri (Scheele) S. Wats. Slender Bear-grass. 



Devil's Shoestring. 



Similar to Nolina texana but has flat, finely saw-toothed, 

 flexible leaves and a single erect, stout, branched flower-stalk 

 longer than the leaves at blossoming time. Blossoms In May and 

 June. Grows on dry, rocky hillsides and ledges of limestone 

 bluffs. Not as common as the Basket Grass. 



Dasylirion texanwm Scheele. Saw Yucca. c i Sotol. ? y 



Plants similar to Yucca rupicola in having a great rosette of 

 spreading leaves but different in that the leaves are much longer 

 and armed with hooked spines on the toothed margins. Flower 

 stalk straight and high, like a big candle, never branched, the 

 catkin-like flowers blooming in the axils of leaflike, 1 to 2" long 

 bracts that ascend the stalk to the tip. Fruit small, 3-winged. 

 Blossoms in June. Grows on dry, limestone hills and hillsides. 

 Often used in parks and gardens for ornament. Not as common 

 as the other Yucca. This is called Sotol in many parts of 

 Western Texas and is well known to cattlemen under that name 

 (which is Mexican). The plants are often cut and fed to stock 

 in Trans-Pecos, Texas. 



SMILACACEAE. Smilax Family. In Small's Flora. 

 Smilax Bona-nox L. Stretch-berry. Green Briar. Catbriar. 



A climbing slender vine with green, often zigzag stems 

 armed with slender straight spines and bearing a pair of tendrils 

 at the base of the leaf stalk. Leaves simple, alternate. Blades 

 shiny, leathery, almost evergreen in habit, 2 — 4" long, entire, 

 triangular, heart-shaped or 3-lobed. Flowers inconspicuous, pale 

 green, 6-lobed, clustered at the ends of slender axillary stalks. 

 Fruits black, 1-seeded, the size of peas, 8 to 20 in each cluster. 

 Children use the berries in chewing gum. Blooms in April. 

 Fruit ripens in late fall. In thickets and low grounds along 

 streams. 



