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YUCCA puberula.
Pubescent-stemmed Adam's Needle.
Natural Order. TulipACEA. Kth. synops. I. p. 292.
YUCCA. Supra fol. 63.
Y . puberula, ticMxlh, foliis patentibus
tisuue nlanis glaucis apice concavis mucronulatis margine falamen
S s , S c frccto pa^nioulato-ramoso ; ramis flexuos.s tomcntoso-
pubescentibus, perianthii laciniis elliptico-lanc^latis acutis.
Y ^ c a puberula. Haworth in the Philosophical Magazine and Annals,
fo r March 1828. p. 186.
Root perennial, producing numerous suckers ste™less^
Leaves from a foot to 18 inches in length, and from an
inch to an inch and half in breadth, spreading, smooth, ot
a very blue glaucous colour, flat or a little concave at the
points, of a thin weak texture, generally erect,
L a ig h t the points of some of the old ones slightly bent
d ^ ^ d s , lanceolate or linearly lanceolate, ta ^ n n g to
the base and point, the point terminated by a «o^ish brown
spine, longitudinally striated with numerous famt lines,
liargins smooth, edged with a yellowish brown
which tears up irregularly so as to appear mimerous
threads, that are more or less curled
or slightly flexuose, from four to four and a hah teet in
heighh clothed with a woolly pubescence, which increases
/in thickness on the upper part of the stem,
branches, the leaves from S to 5 inches J e S ’
pressed close to the stem, beginning to branch about tiio
feet from the ground: branches densely clothed whh
soft woolly down, much bent or flexuose, spreading, l o w ers
crowded, of a lemon-scent, white or tinged with green,
in threes at the base of the branches, in Pai>^®
and towards the point solitary. Bractes broadly lanceo
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