| + | Yucca gloriosa, Linn. (Y. acuminata, Sweet. Y. gloriosa acuminata, Carr. Y. integerrima, Stokes). Short-trunked or arboreous: lvs. 2 in. wide, stiff, smooth, nearly flat, usually with a few teeth when young or a few threads when old: fls. often reddish tinged: fr. drooping. Coast, from S. C. to Fla. Duhamel, Arbr. 325. R.H. 1877, p. 287. S.S. 10:503. G.C. III. 28, p. 262. Gn. 49, p. 218. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13:43, 44, 84. A smaller form is f. minor, Carr. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 13:45. Ref. Bot. 5:319. A form with median variegation is f. medio-striata. F.S. 23:2393, 2394. Forms with the outer lvs. somewhat recurving are var. robusta, Carr., B.M. 1260. Redoute, Lil. 6:326, 327, and its more glaucous form f. nobilis, Carr. (Y. Ellacombei, Baker. Y. gloriosa Ellacombei, Baker). Ref. Bot. 5:317. With glaucous lvs. very plicate toward the end it is var. plicata, Carr., Gn. 31, p. 161; 45, p. 45; 49, p. 332. G.C. II. 19:821; III. 8:692; 15:304. Maund, Bot. Gard. 3:286, a taller greener-lvd. form of which is f. superba, Baker (Y. superba, Haw.). B.R. 1690. G.C. II. 12:689. Gn. 33, p. 202; 58, p. 446. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 3:7; 13:46, 84. |