186 



ASPHODELE.E. [Brodiaa. 



cens, Senmm cuique loculo 6, subrotunda, nigra, nitida, raphe et chalaze corrugatis. 

 Lindl, 



1. C, esculenia, — a. floribus purpureo-caeruleis. LindL BoL Mag. t 1-186. — Phalaa- 

 gium Qiiamash. Ph. Am. I, p. 226.— P. esculentum. NutU (in part; not Fraser.)--^. 

 floribus albis.— Scilla esculeiita. ^. fl. albo. Hook. BoL Mag. L 2774. {not Scilla escul. 

 Gatvl. Bat. Mag. t. 1574..) 



Hab. N. W. America. Vallies of the Rocky Mountains. M. Lewis, Between the Mountains and the 

 Pacific, from the parallel of 38° to 50° N.— This is assuredly a very distinct plant, both as to genus as well 

 as species, from the Silla esculenta, Fraser. with which Pursh (in Bot, Mag. t. 1574) and Mr NuUail con- 

 founded it, and led others to do so too. Both are eaten in their respective countries by the Indians, the pre- 

 sent one by the Chenooks, who toast the roots on heated stones, and, when dried or compressed into cakes, 

 they form a great article of consumption during the winter months. 



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4, TRITELEIA. Hook, 



Perianthium tubulosum, subinfundibuliforme, marcescens. Slam, 6, duplici serie 

 iiiserta: superioribus petalis oppositis. Squamm hypogynce nullse. Ovarium saepius 

 .stipitatum, raro sessile, polyspermum ; stigmate trilobo. — Herbae {Austro- et horeali- 

 Americance) cormis induviatis. Floras umbellati. LindL 



I. T, grandiflora (Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub fol. 1293) ; foliis linearibus glaucis scape erecto 

 bipedali brevioribus, involucro pedicellis asquali, pedicellis strictis perianthio infundibu- 

 lari vix sequalibus, ovario breviter stipitato, filamentis 3 decurrentibus basi callosis, um- 

 bella pauciflora. (Tab. CXCVIII. B.) 



Hab. Plains of the Columbia and Wallamet Rivers. Douglas. Tolmie. — I do not see how the T. laxa 

 of Mr Bentham. in Hort. Tram. v. I. N. S. t. 15. /. 2, and Lindl Bot, Beg. t. 1635, (both of which 

 figures accurately represent ours, the original species of the genus,) can be distinguished from the present. 

 It is a beautiful plant, with the habit of the following genus, 



5. BRODIiEA. Sm. 



Perianthium tubuloso-campanulatuin, sexfidum, persistens. Stam. 3, ad faucem et laciniis 

 3 int. opposita, cum squamis 3 (stam. abortivis) alternantia. Ovarium 3-gonum, basi 

 attenuatum. Stylus filiformls. Stigma trifidum. Capsula obovata, stipitata, 3-locularis, 

 loculicido-trivalvis. Semina cuique loculo 4-5, peltata. — Flores umbellati, 



1. B. grandiflora; pedicellis umbellatis bracteas longe superantibus, squamis peri- 

 antbii oblongis obtusissimis integris. Sm, Linn. Trans, v. 10. p. 2. Bot. Reg. t 1183. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2877. {non Ph.^ nee 2Vw//.)_Brodiaea coronaria. Salisb. Par. Lond. t. m. 



Hab. N. W, America, New Georgia. Menzies. Pugct Sound, and dry plains of the Wallamet and of 



the Columbia, west of the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific Ocean. Douglas. Dr Scouler. Tolmie. Dr 

 Gairdner. 



2. B, congesta (Sm. Linn. Trans, v. 10. J3. 3. ^. 1) ; floribus subcapitatis, bracteis 

 pedicellos superantibus, squamis periantbii lanceolatis acutis bifidis. 



■ Hab. N. W. America ; the same stations as the preceding, Menzies. Douglas. Tolmie. — The smaller 



