The Technical Name of the Camas Plant 65 



Quamasia howellii (Wats.). 



Camassia howellii Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25 : 135. 1890. 



Perianth described as pale purple, the capsules, about 6 millimeters in 

 length, borne on pedicels three to four times as long. The species is 

 known only from Grant's Pass, in southwestern Oregon. 



ft Pedicels shorter than the bracts; anthers about 2 millimeters or less in 

 length. 



Quamasia esculenta (Ker). 



Phalangium esculentum Nutt. in Eraser's Cat. 1813. Nomen nudum. 



Scilla esculenta Ker, Bot. Mag. 38 : t. 1754. 1813. 



Phalangium esculentum Nutt.; Ker, Bot. Mag. 38: t. 1574- 1813. As 

 synonym. 



f Cyanotris scilloides Raf. Am. Month. Mag. 3 : 356. 1818. 



Lemotrys hyacinthina Raf. Fl. Tellur. 3 : 51. 1836. 



Camassia fraseri Torr. Pac. R. Rep. 2 [pt. 4] : 176. 1855. 



Scilla fraseri Gray, Man. ed. 2. 469. 1856. 



Sitocodium esculentum Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 27. 1866. 



Quamasia hyacinthina Britton in Britton & Brown, 111. Fl. 1: 423. fig. 

 1018. 1896. 



Scilla angusta Engelm. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5 : 237. 1845. 



Camassia fraseri angusta Torr. & Gr. Pac. R. Rep. 2 [pt. 4] : 176. 1855. 



A plant with pale blue flowers, popularly known as the " wild hyacinth." 

 It ranges almost throughout the Mississippi Valley, from western Penn 

 sylvania to Wisconsin, Kansas, and southwestward to central Texas. 



The two synonyms last cited belong to a narrow-leaved small-flowered 

 plant (leaves seldom exceeding 6 millimeters in width, and perianth about 

 6 millimeters in length, as opposed to 8 to 12 millimeters and 10 milli 

 meters respectively in the typical plant), originally collected by Lind- 

 heimer at New Braunfels, in central Texas, and said to extend to Louisiana 

 and Missouri. Though considered a variety of this species by most au 

 thors, it merits critical study in the field, as, if the difference in time of 

 flowering cited by the describers prove constant, it is probably a distinct 

 species. 



