166 LILIACEAE 



8. QUAMASIA Raf. C.\mash, Blue Camas, Wild Hyacinth, 



SWAJMP SeGO. 



Perennial herbs, with scapiform stems and edible bulbs. Leaves basal, with 

 elongated blades. Flowers in terminal racemes. Sepals and petals each 3, 

 akke, distinct, blue, white, or purple. Stamens 6; filaments filiform, adnate to 

 the^ baje^of the petak and sepals; anthers versatile, introrse. Ovary 3-celled; 



ovules numerous in eaeh cavitv. 



3-angled. Seeds black, shining. 



Capsule broad, 



Flowers somewhat obUque, about 2 cm. long; divisions 3-veined. or some of them 4- or 



5-veinea. 2 q nnnmash 



Flowers regular, about 3 cm. long; divisions all 5-7-veined. 2.' Y/. Suksdordi. 



1. Q. Quamash (Pursh) Coville. Bulb globose, 1.5-3 cm. thick; scape 3-6 

 dm. high; leaves 6-15 mm. broad, 2-4 dm. long; petals and sepals linear, blue, 

 about 2 cm. long, exceeding the stamens, but shghtly shorter than the style; 

 capsules ellipsoid, 12-15 mm. long, on ahnost erect pedicels. Camassia esculenta 

 Lmdl. Meadows: Mont.— Utah— Calif.— B.C. PlainSubmonL Ap-Je. 



2. Q. Suksdorfii (Greenm.) Piper. Bulb ovate, 1-3 cm. thick; scape 3-7 

 dm. high, few-flowered; leaves 2-3 dm. long, 0.5-2 cm. broad; petals and sepals 

 6-6 5 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, blue; capsules 1.5-2.5 cm. long, erect on pedicels which 

 arch upwards. Meadows: Wash.— Ida.— Utah. Plain— SubmonL My, 



Family 22. CONVALLARIACEAE. Lily-of-the-Valley Family. 



Perennial herbs, with rootstocks and alternate, rarely basal leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, in terminal or axillary racemes, panicles, umbels, or rarely 

 solitary. Sepals and petals 3 or 2, similar, distinct or partly united, in- 

 ferior. Stamens 6 or 4. Gynoecium of 3 or 2 united carpels; ovary 3- or 

 2-celled; styles united. Fruit in all our species a berry. 



stem leafy; leaves alternate. 

 Sepals and petals distinct. 



Flowers white, in terminal racemes or panicles; anthers introrse; stem simple. 

 Petals and sepals 3; stamens 6.- 1 VagxerV 



Petals and sepals 2; stamens 4. 2* IlNiFOLTuil 



Flowers extra-axillary or terminal and solitary or in smaU umbelliform clusters; 

 anthers extrorse or opening laterally; stem branched, 

 * lowers extra-axillarj , greenish white; filaments slender; anthers acute." 

 Corolla campanulate. 3. Streptopus. 



CoroUa rotate. 4^ rCRUHSE\ 



Flowers terminal, yellow; filaments dilated; anthers obtuse. 5. DisPORUii. 

 bepals and petals partiaUy united into a tube; flowers axillarv. 6. Polygonatum. 

 fetem scapiform; leaves basal; flowers iu terminal umbels, or soUtary and terminal. 



7. CLlNTONrA. 



1. VAGNERA Adans. Wild Spikenard, Wild Lily-of-the-V alley, 



False Solomon's Seal, 



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Caulescent herbs, with elongated rootstocks. Leaves broad, several-nerved. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles. Sepals and petals white or greenish 

 white, distinct or nearly so. Stamens 6; filaments subulate; anthers introrse. 

 Ovary S-celled; styles short; stigma 3-Iobed; ovules 2 in each cavity. Berry 

 globose. Seeds 1 or 2, with a thin testa. [Smilacina Desf.] 



Inflorescence paniculate. 



frui 



Petals and sepals almost equalUng the stamens; fruit red with purple spots. ^ \L^ h^ ,a^*^ 

 L.eaf-blades acuminate, the lower contracted at the base into distinct tfetioles ■ wj-j 



style about 0.5 mm. long. 2, V. racemosa <^ ' 



Leaf-blades acute, all sessile and more or less clasping; style fully 1 mm. long ' 



Inflorescence racemose. ^' ^' ^'^P^^^icauHs. 



Leaves 6-12, sessile. 



Petals and sepals linear or linear -lanceolate. 4 V leDtonptnla 



Petals oblong-lanceolate, lepiopeiaia. 



Pedicels short, slightly if at aU longer than the flowers or the fruit- leaves 

 lanceolate, acute. 5. y. slellata. 



