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CXII. — Yucca aloifolia (Linnaeus) variegata. ^‘Variegated 
Dagger-leaf/^ Order Liliacece. Mexico. 
Fibre prepared by boiling for six hours, and then scraping. 
Sample produced from 227 leaves. 
CXIII. — Yucca filamentosa (Linnseus). “Thread-bearing 
Mound Lily,” or “ Bear Grass.” Order Liliacece, North 
America. 
A good fibre-plant of easy cultivation. Prepared by boiling 
for three hours, and scraping. Professor C. R. Dodge, in his 
Useful Fibre Plants of the Worlds gives a lengthy and interest- 
ing account of this Yucca as a fibre-plant. 
CXIV.— Yucca elexilis (Carriere) syu. Y. stenophylla (Hort). 
“Flexible Yucca.” Order Liliacece, Mexico. 
Fibre produced by boiling the leafage for four hours, and then 
scraping. The sample is the product of 350 leaves so treated. 
CXV. — Yucca gloriosa (Linnmus). “ Common Mound Lily ” 
or “Petre Hemp.” Order Liliacece, North America. 
This magnificent plant furnishes the “Petre Hemp” of Mexico, 
where it is manufactured into ropes, cordage, packing cloth, &c., 
and is extremely durable. “Undoubtedly one of the best of the 
American fibre plants.” Fibre prepared by boiling for six hours, 
and then scraping. Sample the product of 262 leaves. 
CXVI. — Yucca gloriosa variety superba (Baker). Syn. 
Y. superba (Haworth). “ Superb Mound Lily.” Order 
Liliacece, North America. 
A variety of the preceding. The fibre is of a similar quality, 
and is prepared in the same manner. 
CXVIL — Yucca Guatemalensis (Baker) syn. Y. Ghies- 
brechtii (Hort). “The Large Broad-leaved Mound Lily.” 
Order Liliacece, Mexico and Guatemala. 
The fibre exhibited was obtained by boiling for twelve hours, 
and then scraping. 
CXVIII. — Yucca Treculiana (Carriere) syn. Y. agavoides 
(Hort). “ Trecuks Dagger-leaf.” Order Liliacece Mexico. 
Fibre prepared by boiling for six hours, and scraped. Not so 
easily prepared as Y. aloifolia or Y. gloriosa. Similar in quality 
- to Y. Guatemalensis. 
