The Technical Name of the Camas Plant. 65 



Quaniasia howellii (Wats.). 



Camastiia howeUli. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 25: 135. 1890. 



Perianth described as pale purjile, tlie capsules, about (i inillinieters in 

 length, l)orne on pedicels three to four times as long. The species is 

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



1;f Pedicels shorter tluia the bracts; cudhers about 2 millimeters or less i» 

 IriKjtJi. 



Quaniasia esculenta (Ker). 



Phalangium escnlentiun Xutt. in Eraser's Cat. 181.3. Nomen nudum. 



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



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

 synonym. 



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



Lemotri/s hifacinthina Raf Fl. Tellur. 3: 51. 183(). 



Cama.'^siafra.seri Tow. Pac. R. Rep. 2 [pt. 4]: 176. 1855. 



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



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



Qua masia hyaci7ithina Britton in Britton c'c Brown, 111. FI. 1: 423. ./7V/. 

 lOlS. 1896. 

 ■*Sd^to angrw-^^a Engehn. & Gray, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 5: 237. 1845. 



Camassiafra.'teri angus^ta Torr. t^ 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. 



Tiie 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 I'espectively in the typical ])lant), originally collected by Lind- 

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

 and ^lissouri. Though considered a variety of this species by most au- 

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

 flowering cited by tlie describers prove constant, it is probablj^ a distinct 

 species. 



