The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Dasylirion (About eight species natives)

Davallia
Davallia

About eight species, natives of Mexico-Texan North America, have been referred to this genus. To those described on pp. 442-3, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. quadrangulatum (four-angled). fl. small, disposed in a dense, spike-like panicle; flower-stem about 5ft. high. l. slender, quadrangular, about 2ft. long. Stem stout, about 3ft. high, crowned with a dense tuft of leaves. Texas, 1887. Stove or greenhouse. (R. G. 1887, p. 280.)

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