CATALOGUE. 
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narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, rcflexed ; stigma capitate or more or less 3-cleft 
and spreading; capsule 9-18" long, 4-5" wide, oblong, subtriangular. — 
From Wasliington Territory and Idaho to California and Colorado. Fre- 
quent in the Walisatcli and Uintas; G-10,000 feet altitude; May-August. 
None of the reputed forms merit the rank of varieties. (1,175.) 
Leucockinum^ montanum, Nutt. Leaves 6-8' long, 1^" wide, flnt or 
somewhat folded-carinate toward the base, thick, striate-vcined, decumbent ; 
outer bracts broad and mostly obtuse, the inner very narrow and elongated ; 
flowers 4-8, much shorter than the leaves, the peduncles J-14' long, all 
radical, 1-flowered ; tube persistent, 1-2' long, filiform; segments of the limb 
6-8'' long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; stamens equaliug the sepals, the linear 
anthers about 2" long; style equaling the filaments; capsule 3-4" in diameter, 
scarcely appearing above ground. — Flowers pure white, very fragrant, appear- 
ing in early spring. The genus is referred by Endlicher to the little kii()\\ n 
Mexican Weldenia. The affinity is certainly close and the reference may 
prove correct. Southern Wyoming ; Colorado ; California, (380 Fremout, 
■ 1846.) Carson Valley, near Carson City ; April. Plate XXXVI. Fig. 1. 
Plant ; natural size. Fig. 2. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. 
Fig. 3. Capsule; natural size. (1,176.) 
Also a much larger form, more nearly resembhng Nuttall's original 
specimens ; leaves 10-12' long and 2" wide, surrounded at base by the fibrous 
remains of the previous year's growth ; the more advanced flowers 2' in 
diameter ; tube 4' long, and the peduncle becoming 2' in length ; style mostly 
exceeding the stamens. Humboldt Valley, Nevada, near Oreana. (1,177.) 
Camassia^ esculenta, Lindl. KuntKs Enum. 4. 347. Scape 1-2J° high ; 
1 LEUCOCEINUM, Nctt. Perianth corolline, salvcr-.slin]H <l, mnrcoscont ; tn1)0 very slender, 
elongated; limb 6-parted, regular. Stamens 6, nearly eqnal ; lilauients a<!iiate io tlir x\\\»' maily its 
whole length, filiform ; anthers erect, becoming curved, linear, ^-ci lled, attaclu-d by ciiiar-inale base, 
introrso with a lateral dehiscence. Ovary globose-ovate, 3-celled ; ovules about VI iu cacb wW. in 2 rows, 
horizontal or snhpendulons, on short foot-stalks. Style iilifonu, undivided ; stigma dilal. d into a soim- 
what triangular cnp. Capsule siibglohose, obtusely triangular, nu'uibranfuis, loculieidally d. liisci iit. 
SeedsS-^) in each cell, in 2 rows, subglobose.— A ix renuial ai aub sc. iit berb, with a short tlii. k siiht. r- 
ranean root-stock and fleshy spreading elongated rootb ts ; h aves thick, linear, siurnuud.d al base by 
membranous bracts; flowers white, peduneled. 
= CAMASSIA, Lindl. reriantb (Vpartcd, sjircading, withering-persistent; sei.al- v. ly -iiglitly 
connate at base, snbeqmal, 3-5-nerved on tlie back, .srauiens 0, ins. rtcd at th.> b.iM' of thr ]). ri;inf ii, 
shorter than the sepals, equal. Filaments liliform, ascending. Auth. rs ohloug, --'-ci lied, inlniiM-, , iiiar- 
ginate above and bifid below, attached by the middle, lougitudinaliy (h-hiseeiit along < a. h margin. 
Ovary free, sessile, subglobose, 3-celled ; ovules P-l.;. in 2 rows, sessile, auatropous. .^tyh- lilitorn.. 
Stigma with 3 short recurved lobes. Cai-sule , i!;n t.ir. ons, rounded or oblong, oltln-^- ly triangular, 
loculieidally :i-valved. Seeds as the ovules, obh.ng, snniewbat liattencd. blii.'k. Hni.s with tuni.af. ,1 
bulbs and leath'ss scapes ; leaves linear, striate-nerved ; flowers solitary, pe<licell.-d. iu a simple raceme, 
mostly bracted. 
