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6. CAMASSIA Lindl. 
Seape and linear leaves from a coated bulb, with a simple raceme of 
small-bracted bluish slightly gibbous flowers on pedicels jointed near 
summit, the 3 to 7-nerved segments spreading, filiform style with per- 
sistent base, oblong or obovate 3-angled loculicidal 3-valved pod, and 
several black roundish seeds in each cell. 
1. C. Praseri Torr. (EASTERN CAMASS. WILDHYACINTH.) Scape 3 dm. or more 
high: leaves 8 to 14 nm. broad, kecled: raceme elongated; bracts longer than the 
pedicels: perianth-segments pale blue, 3-nerved, 8 to 14 mm. long: pod acutely tri- 
angular-globose. (Scilla Fraseri Gray.)—Prairies of north and west Texas. Var. 
ANGUSTATA Torr. (Seilla angustata Eng. & Gray), extending to central Texas from 
Arkansas and Louisiana, is very slender, with narrow leaves (6 to 8 mm. broad) and 
smaller flowers. 
7. ANTHERICUM L 
Plants with naked stems (or with 1 or 2 setaceous leaves) from a 
thick cylindrical fleshy-fibrous root, narrowly linear grass-like leaves, 
surrounded at base by the fibrous remnants of older ones, yellow flowers 
on pedicels jointed near the middle, 3 to 5-nerved segments spreading 
from the base and twice longer than the anthers, slender elongated style 
and oblong pod with several flattened angular seeds in each cell, 
1. A. Torreyi Baker. Stem slender, 3 to 9 dm. high: radical leaves several, 
elongated, smooth: raceme simple or branched, loosely flowered; pedicels 10 to 12 
mm. long; flowers (10 to 12 mm. long) with brownish nerves: pod 12 mm. long, 12 
to 16-seeded. ( Hesperanthes Torreyi Watson,)—Rocky limestone hills near the mouth 
of the Pecos, and west to Arizona. 
8. SCHCENOLIRION Torr. 
Plants with naked stems (scaly and thickened at base) trom a thick 
rootstock, with radical few-nerved very narrow flat leaves, yellow or 
whitish flowers in loose or sparingly panicled racemes, the 3 to 5-nerved 
segments exceeding the stamens, short style, and the deeply-lobed 
depressed globose pod with 1 or 2 subgiobose shining seeds in each 
cell. 
1. S. Texana (Scheele) Gray. Stem slender, 3 dm, high: raceme short (2.5 to 10 
em.); bracts narrow, acutish: flowers greenish-white, with narrow segments: seeds 
2mm. long. (Ornithogalum Teranum Scheele. S. Michauwrii Torr. Mex. Bound. excel. 
syn. and descr.)—Moist places, from the Colorado to the Red River. 
9. HESPERALOE Engelm. 
Plants with short stout caudex sending up a slender sparingly brac- 
teate flowering stem, crowded thick linear deeply-channelled leaves 
with filiferous margins, erect fascicled flowers in a paniculate raceme, 
narrowly cylindric reddish perianth with linear 7-nerved segments, 
smooth filiform filaments with linear-oblong anthers, filiform decidu- 
ous style, small capitate stigma, and a loculicidal 3-celled pod. 
