Tas. 6287. 
CAMASSIA xscunenta, var, LEICHTLINII. 
Native of British Columbia. 
Nat. Ord. Lintackz.—Tribe Scottie. 
Genus Camassta, Lindl. (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xiii. p. 256). 
Camassia esculenta var. Leichtlinii ; foliis lineari-loratis, racemo laxo subpedali 
interdum furcato, pedicellis 6-12 lin. longis apice distincte articulatis, 
perianthii 12-15 lin. longi albi segmentis dorso 7-nervatis. 
Cutorocatum Leichtlinii, Baker in Gard. Chron, 1874, p. 689. 
This is a third subspecies of Quamash, differing from the 
well-known Camassia esculenta, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1486, 
by its more robust habit, broader leaves, laxer sometimes 
- compound raceme, and larger flowers with more numerous 
nerves in the keel of the segments of the perianth. At first, 
led by its compound raceme and distinctly articulated 
pedicels I was inclined to place it in the genus Chiorogalum, 
_ but now after having seen further and better specimens, I am 
convinced that the present is its correct position. It was dis- 
covered by Mr. John Jeffrey in British Columbia in 1853. As 
a garden plant my first knowledge of it was derived from 
our indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichtlin, Esq. The 
_ present sketch was taken from a plant which flowered on the 
rockery in Kew Gardens in May, 1873. The ordinary 
‘ eolour of the flowers of @. esculenta and of C. Fraseri, its 
representative in the Eastern States, is blue, but in all the 
specimens which I have seen of the present plant the flowers 
are white. 
Descr. Bulb globose, one and a half inch in diameter, with 
brown membranous tunics. Leaves about half-a-dozen in a 
basal rosette, linear-lorate, a foot or a foot and a half long at 
the flowering time, an inch or more broad low down, 
narrowed gradually to the point. Scape one and a half to 
two feet long, terete. Raceme a foot long, sometimes 
branched ; pedicels solitary, erecto-patent, half an inch to an 
inch long, distinctly articulated at the tip ; bracts lanceolate, 
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