C 1574 3 



Sr-ILLA ESCULENTA. MISSOURI SQUILL, OR 

 QuAMASH. 



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Generic Charailer.— Vide N h - 663, 746, 918, 919, et 1185, 



verfo folio. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



oCILLA efculenta; bulbo tunicato, ovato-oblongo, membranis 

 veftito; vagina radicali brevi; foliis paucis (3 ?), fafcicu- 

 latis, ere&o-divergentibus, lorato-lanceolatis, ftri&iufculis, 

 canaliculato-concavis, carinatis, interiore anguftiore ; fcapo 

 altiori, ftri£io, tereti, foliolo bra6teaceo (nonnunquam forte 

 pluribus!') infra racemum ftipato; racemo numerofo, fpicato, 

 iparfoj laxo, divaricato; pedicellis flore fublongioribus, 

 braftea fimplici fubaequali convoluta acuminata amplexis; 

 corolla horizontal^ hexapetalo-partita, ftellata, laciniis 

 lanceolatis, planis, prope bafin undulatis; ftaminibus parum 

 brevioribus, ere&o-divergentibus ; filamentis immediate 

 hypogynis, filiformibus, aequalibus; antheris fagittato-ovatis, 

 incumbentibus; piftillo ftaminibus sequali; genuine poly- 

 fpermo, elliptico, obtufo, rotundate trigono, obfolete 

 trigibbo, deprefle trifulco ; ftylo fetaceo, reclo, eo duplo 

 longiore ; (ligmate inconfpicuo, leviffime trifido. G. 

 ^HALANGIUM efculentmn. Frafer's Catalogue, &c. 

 ^HALANGIUM ^uamafh; bulbofum ; fcapo foliis linearibus 

 carinatis longiore, fpica racemofa, bra&eis linearibus, 

 petalis 5 afcendentibus, infimo deflexo, ftigmate obtufo. 

 Purfj Flor. Bor.-Jmer. v. up. 226. /. 7 ; (nondum evulgata.) 



^escr. Bulb lefs than a common walnut ; integuments brown ; 

 f«*pe about a foot high; leaves rather fhorter, broadeft of them 

 "ttle more than half an inch over; flowers fcentlefs, of a blueifli 

 grey or afh colour, about an inch in, diameter when expanded; 

 Wbers yellow. We have added the fynonym from the work of 

 -^ r - Pursh, in confequence of a communication that gentleman 

 v *s fo obliging as to make to us, in which he allured us 3 that 



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