LILY FAMILY. 423 
I. Quamasia hyacinthina (Raf.) Britton. Wild Hyacinth. 
Lemotrys hyacinthina Raf. F1. Tell. 3: 51. 1836. 
Scilla Fraseri A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 469. 1856. 
Camassia Fraseri Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 147. 
1857. 
Bulb ovoid, 17-114’ long, its outer coat 
usually nearly black. Scape slender, 1°-2° 
tall, sometimes bearing 1 or 2 short linear 
scarious leaves; basal leaves narrowly linear, 
acuminate, shorter than the scape, 114//— 
4’’ wide; raceme open, 3’-9’ long in flower, 
longer in fruit; flowers several or many; 
pedicels filiform, 6’’-10’” long, about as 
long as the bracts and the perianth-seg- 
ments; bracts long-acuminate; perianth- 
segments narrowly oblong, 3-5-nerved, blue 
or nearly white, longer than the stamens; 
capsule about 4’” high, 5’’-6’’ thick, the 
valves transversely veined. 
In meadows and along streams, Pennsylva- 
nia to Minnesota, Alabamaand Texas. Ascends 
to 2100 ft. in Virginia. April-May. 
11. ORNITHOGALUM L. Sp. Pl. 306.1753. 
Scapose herbs, with coated bulbs, narrow basal fleshy leaves, and large white or yellow 
flowers in a terminal bracted corymb or raceme. Perianth-segments equal or nearly so, sepa- 
rate, white, or sometimes green without, persistent, faintly several-nerved. Stamens hypo- 
gynous; filaments flattened, often broad; anthers versatile, introrse. Ovary 3-celled, sessile; 
ovules several or numerous in each cavity; style short or columnar, 3-sided; stigma capitate, 
3-lobed or 3-ridged. Capsule subglobose, 3-sided or 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds black. 
[Greek, signifying bird’s milk, said to be in allusion to the egg-white color of the flowers 
in some species. ] 
About 75 species, natives of Europe, Asia and Africa. 
Flowers corymbose, erect; pedicels long, slender. 1. O. umbellatum, 
Flowers racemose, drooping; pedicels very short, stout. 2. O. nutans. 
1. Ornithogalum umbellatum L,. 
Star-of-Bethlehem. (Fig. ro1g.) 
Ornithogalum umbellatum V,. Sp. Pl. 307. 1753. 
Tufted, bulbs ovoid, 14/-114’ long, the 
coats membranous. Scape slender, 4/—12/ 
high; leaves narrowly linear, 1//-214’’ wide, 
dark green with a light midvein, blunt, 
equalling or longer than the scapes; flowers 
corymbose, opening in sunshine; bracts mem- 
branous, linear-lanceolate, mostly shorter 
than the pedicels; pedicels erect or ascend- 
ing, the lower 1/—-3/ long; perianth-segments 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, white above, green 
with white margins beneath, 6’/-10’ long, 
about twice as long as the stamens; filaments 
somewhat flattened, not toothed. 
In fields and meadows, Massachusetts to Penn- 
sylvania and Virginia. Locally very abundant. 
Naturalized from Europe. May-June. 
