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LILIACEAE 



3. Quamasia leichtlinii (Baker) Coville. Leichtlin's Camass. Fig. 1018. 



Chlorogalum leichtlinii Baker, Gard. Chron. II. 1: 689. 1874. 



Camassia leichtlinii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 376. 1885. 



Quamasia leichtlinii Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 63. 



1897. 

 Camassia suksdorfii Greene. Bot. Gaz. 34: 307. 1902. 



Quamasia asurea Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 547. 1899. 



Bulb broadly ovoid, 15-30 mm. broad, edible. 

 Scape rather stout, 2-6 dm. high, with or without 

 1 or 2 scarious bracts ; basal leaves linear, shorter 

 than the scape, keeled, paler on the upper surface ; 

 raceme many-flowered. 10-20 cm. long ; bracts shorter 

 than the spreading pedicels ; perianth blue or creamy 

 white, regular, the segments 20-35 mm. long, 

 3-nerved, 5-nerved or sometimes 7-nerved, or alter- 

 nately 3 and 5, or 5 and 7-nerved. connivent and 

 twisted together over the ovary after anthesis ; cap- 

 sule oblong, 15 mm. long; seeds several in each 

 cavity. 



In meadows, Transition and Canadian Zones; \"ancouver 

 Island to Utah, the southern Sierra Nevada and northern 

 Coast Ranges, California. Type locality: probably on the 

 Umqua River, Oregon, where the typical white-flowered form 

 occurs. 



4. Quamasia howellii S. Wats. Howell's Camass. Fig. 1019. 



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

 Quamasia howellii Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 65. 

 1897. 



Bulbs ovoid, about 15 mm. broad. Scape rather 

 slender, 3-5 dm. high, bearing 1 or 2 bract-like 

 leaves above the middle ; basal leaves several, linear, 

 shorter than the scape, keeled; racemes often 20-25 

 cm., many-flowered; perianth pale blue, the seg- 

 ments 12-15 mm. long, 3-nerved or rarely 4-5-nerved ; 

 fruiting pedicels spreading, 15-25 mm. long, twice 

 longer than the bracts ; capsules broadly ovoid or 

 subglobose, very obtuse, 6-8 mm. long, the cells 2-3- 

 seeded. 



In meadows, Transition Zone; southern Oregon. Type lo- 

 cality: Grants Pass, Oregon. 



17. LILIUM L. Sp. PI. 302. 1753. 



Tall bulbous herbs, with simple leafv stems and large erect or drooping flowers. Perianth 

 deciduous, funnel-form or campanulate, of 6 distinct spreading or recurved segments, each 

 with a nectar-bearing groove at its base within. Stamens 6. mostly shorter than the perianth, 

 slightly attached to the segments; filaments filiform or subulate; anthers linear or oblong, 

 versatile Ovules numerous ; stvle long, somewhat clavate above ; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule 

 oblong or obovoid, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, flat, packed in 2 rows in each cell. 

 [Latin, from the Greek name of the lily.] 



Eenus of about 50 species widely distributed over the North Temperate Zone. Besides the follovying 

 are about 10 species in the Rocky Mountains and eastern United States. Type species, Lilxum 



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 candidum L. 



