Camassia.} ASPHODELE.E. 



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acuminatis carinatis rectis stamina subajquantibus, ovario trilobo, stylo integro. — a. foliis 

 scapo breviorihus. (Tab. CXCVII.) — j3. foIlis scapo longioribus. 



Hab. «. N. W. Coast, on the low hills. Douglas.— P>. In the Snake country. Tolmie.—T\\e flowers of 

 this a good deal resemble the preceding in shape and colour, but the apex of the sepals is not recurved, the 

 stamens are longer, and the leaves are totally different, being more than half an inch broad, in the dry 

 state thick and somewhat coriaceous, indicating that in the recent plant they are thick and tlcshy. Mr 

 Douglas had marked it A. fragrant ; but with the fragrans, Spreng. {A. inodorum, Gaw!.), it has no sort 

 of affinity whatever. 



Tab. CXCVII, Fig. 1, Flower ; f. 2, Sepals and stamens ; f. 3, Pistil : — mngnifietl. 



7. A, Schcenoprasum . L. — E, BoL t 2241. Rich. App, p, 10. — A. Sibiricum. L, Mant. ? 



Hab. Canada. Mrs Sheppard. Lady Dalkousie. Throughout the woody country to Bear Lake {Dr 

 Hickardson), and to the Prairies of the Rocky Mountains. Dntmmond, Newfoundland. Dr Morrison. 

 Walla-wallah and Wallamet Rivers, on the N. W. Coast. Douglas. Tvhnie, — This seems to be a most 

 abundant species in N. America, yet not noticed by Pursh or Nuttall. I do not see how A. Sibiricum is 



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to be distinguished from the present. 



8. A. Canadense, L. — Ph, Am. !./>. 225. 



Hab. Canada. Pursh; but I have never seen a specimen from British North America. 



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2. HESPEROSCORDON. Lindl. 



PeriantJiium subcampanulato-rotatum, bifidum, cum pedicello articulatuni. Stamina 

 6, fertilia, filamentis dilatatis membranaceis sequalibus, e fauce exortis, basi subconnatis. 

 Squamcehy^pogyntQ 0, Ovarium sessile {?), 3-loculare, polyspermum, apice 3-glandulo- 

 sum. Stylus teres, cum ovario articulatus. Stigma simplex. Cfl/J^M/a.tri-locularis, 3- 

 valvis, polysperma, valvis medio septiferis. Semina nigra, angulata, subcrustacea. 

 Herba {Boreali- Americana) cormis induviatis, Flores umbellati, Lindl. 



1. H. Lewisii; umbella multiflora, floribus densis campanulatis laciniis apice patenti- 

 bus. — H. hyacinthinum. Lindl Bot. Reg. sub foL 1293 — Brodiaea grandiflora. Nuft, 

 Gen. 1. p. 215. {non Sm.) (Tab. CXCVIII. A.) 



Hab. Plains of the Missouri. M. Lewis. N. W. America. Menzies (in Herb, nostr.). Plains of the 

 Columbia, and to California. Doitglas. Wallamet River. Tolmie.—l have changed the name of Dr Lindley. 

 though unwillingly ; because I think the colour is not " sky-blue ;*" at least the well-dried specimens have 

 exactly the same colour as those of H. lactenm, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1G39 ; and I doubt very much if this 

 latter plant, from California, be really anything more than a small and lax-flowered variety of the present. In 

 both, the germen tapers very much at the base, and the fruit is really stipitate. 



Tab. CXCVIII. A. Fig. I, Flower; / 2. The same laid open '.—magnified. 



3. CAMASSIA. Lindl. 



Bulbils tunicatus. Flores coerulei, v. purpurei. Perianthium explanatum, hexapliyl- 



lum, foliolis 5 superioribus ascendentibus, sexto decurvo. Stam. 6, hypogyna, aqualia; 



Jilamenta glabra ascendentia. Ovariim 3-loculare polyspermum. Stylus declinatus. 



Stigma obsolete 3-dentatum. Capsnla cbartacea, 3-loculari.s, 3-valvis, loculicido-dehis- 



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