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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  XTV. 
  CAMASSIA 
  Lindl. 
  (QUAMASIA) 
  

  

  Herbs 
  appearing 
  stemless, 
  from 
  coated 
  bulbs. 
  Leaves 
  linear. 
  

   Flowers 
  racemed 
  on 
  a 
  scape. 
  Perianth 
  of 
  6 
  blue 
  or 
  purple 
  

   spreading 
  sepals. 
  Stamens 
  with 
  thread-like 
  filaments, 
  slightly 
  

   perigynous. 
  Style 
  thread-like, 
  ending 
  in 
  a 
  knobbed 
  stigma. 
  

   Capsule 
  3-angled, 
  3-celled, 
  several-seeded. 
  

  

  1. 
  C. 
  esculenta 
  Robinson. 
  WILD 
  HYACINTH. 
  Leaves 
  keeled, 
  weak, 
  

   shorter 
  than 
  the 
  scape. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  a 
  long-bracted 
  raceme, 
  pale 
  blue. 
  

   River 
  bottoms 
  and 
  other 
  damp, 
  rich 
  soil. 
  

  

  XV. 
  ORNITHOGALUM 
  L. 
  

  

  Herbs 
  appearing 
  stemless, 
  from 
  coated 
  bulbs. 
  Leaves 
  linear, 
  

   fleshy. 
  Scape 
  erect. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  corymbs 
  or 
  racemes, 
  bracted. 
  

   Perianth 
  segments 
  6, 
  white, 
  nerved, 
  persistent. 
  Stamens 
  6, 
  

   hypogynous, 
  slender 
  ; 
  filaments 
  flattened. 
  Ovary 
  sessile, 
  3- 
  

   celled, 
  few-ovuled. 
  Fruit 
  a 
  roundish, 
  3-angled 
  capsule, 
  seeds 
  

   black.* 
  

  

  1. 
  0. 
  umbellatum 
  L. 
  STAR 
  OK 
  BKTHLEHEM. 
  Bulb 
  ovoid, 
  mem- 
  

   branous-coated. 
  Leaves 
  numerous, 
  linear, 
  fleshy; 
  mid-vein 
  nearly 
  

   white, 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  scape. 
  Scape 
  slender, 
  6-12 
  in. 
  high. 
  Flowers 
  

   opening 
  in 
  sunshine, 
  long-pediceled. 
  Bracts 
  linear-lanceolate, 
  about 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  pedicels. 
  Perianth 
  segments 
  oblong-lanceolate, 
  white 
  

   with 
  a 
  green 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  back, 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  stamens. 
  

   Introduced 
  from 
  Europe 
  ; 
  very 
  common 
  about 
  old 
  gardens.* 
  

  

  XVI. 
  HYACINTHUS 
  L. 
  

  

  Herbs 
  appearing 
  stemless, 
  from 
  coated 
  bulbs. 
  Leaves 
  linear, 
  

   fleshy. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  an 
  erect 
  spike, 
  pediceled, 
  bracted. 
  Perianth 
  

   tubular 
  below, 
  lobed 
  and 
  spreading 
  above. 
  Stamens 
  short, 
  in- 
  

   cluded. 
  Style 
  short 
  ; 
  stigma 
  knobbed 
  ; 
  ovary 
  3-celled, 
  mauy- 
  

   ovuled.* 
  

  

  1. 
  H. 
  orientalis 
  L. 
  HYACINTH. 
  Leaves 
  lance-linear, 
  thick 
  and 
  

   fleshy, 
  smooth. 
  Scape 
  erect, 
  many-flowered. 
  Segments 
  united 
  about 
  

   half 
  their 
  length, 
  white, 
  blue, 
  or 
  red. 
  Filaments 
  very 
  short. 
  Ovary 
  

   rarely 
  maturing 
  seed. 
  Common 
  in 
  cultivation.* 
  

  

  XVTJ. 
  YUCCA 
  L. 
  

  

  Plants 
  with 
  woody 
  and 
  leafy 
  stems. 
  Leaves 
  numerous, 
  rigid, 
  

   spine-pointed, 
  persistent. 
  Flowers 
  in 
  large 
  terminal 
  racemes 
  

  

  