LILY FAMILY 269 



1. C. quamash Greene. CAMASS. Scape stoutish, 1 to 2y 2 feet high; raceme 

 5 to 25-flowered ; flowers dark blue, rarely white ; perianth-segments unequal, 

 spreading unequally in 2 sets of 3 each, nearly 6 to 10 lines long, each twisted 

 separately after blooming; capsule obtusely angled, its valves pinnately veined. 



Wet meadows or wet bottoms, Sierra Nevada, 450Q to 6500 feet ; high North 

 Coast Ranges. North to British Columbia and east to Utah. 



Locs. Round Mdw., Giant Forest, Jepson 672; Pine Eidge, Fresno Co., Hall $ Chandler 

 (perianth-segments twisting over ovary) ; Little Yosemite, Hall 9047; Eancheria Mt., Yosemite 

 Park, Jepson 4604; Truckee, Sonne; Modoc Co., M. S. Baker; Mt. Hull, Hall 9546a (twisting 

 perianth ! ) . 



Eefs. CAMASSIA QUAMASH Greene, Man. Bay Eeg. 313 (1894). Phalangium quamash 

 Pursh, Fl. 1:226 (1814), type loc. Weippe, Ida., Lewis. Quamasia quamash Cov. Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash. 11:64 (1897). Camassia esculenta Lindl. Bot. Eeg. t. 1486 (1832). 



2. C. leichtlinii Wats. Similar to C. quamash ; flowers dark blue to cream 

 color; perianth-segments 10 to 12 lines long, spreading regularly in a perfect star, 

 withering and twisting over the capsule like a bon-bon, at length deciduous as a 

 whole ; capsule oblong-obovate, slightly notched at apex, its valves closely veined 

 horizontally. 



Wet flats or grassy plains ; Marin and Napa cos. to Humboldt Co., and easterly 

 to Sierra Co. North to British Columbia. 



Locs. Inverness, Jepson 8302 (perianth-segments withering separately) ; Napa Valley, 

 Clara Hunt; Bed Mt., se. of Ukiah, Jepson 3035; Ft. Bragg, W. C. Mathews; Willow Creek, 

 Trinity Eiver, Tracy 3388; Sierra Valley, Alma Ames. 



Eefs. CAMASSIA LEICHTLINII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20:376 (1885). Chlorogalum leicht- 

 linii Baker, Gard. Chron. ser. 2, 1:689 (1874), type collected by Jeffrey, probably in the 

 Umpqua Valley, Ore., and not in "British Columbia," ace. Piper. Camassia esculenta var. 

 leichtlitiii Baker, Bot. Mag. t. 6287 (1877). 



12. CHLOROGALUM Kunth. 



Stem from a tunicated bulb, often tall, almost leafless, ending in a panicle of 

 racemose branches. Leaves of the basal tuft long-linear. Bracts small and 

 scarious. Pedicels jointed at the summit. Perianth white, purple or pinkish, 

 persistent and at length twisted over the ovary ; segments 6, distinct, spreading, 

 ribbon-like, with 3 distinct but closely approximate nerves down the middle. 

 Stamens 6, rather shorter than the segments and inserted on their bases. Style 

 long-filiform, slightly 3-cleft at apex. Capsule broadly turbinate, 3-lobed, locu- 

 licidal, with 1 or 2 seeds in each cell. Species 4, California and adjacent borders 

 north and south. (Greek chloros, green, and gala, milk or juice.) 



Perianth-segments rotate-spreading, 8 to 10 lines long; bulb with a heavy coat of coarse fibers; 



leaves % to 1% inches broad; pedicels 3 lines long or more 1. C. pomeridianum. 



Perianth-segments somewhat spreading from above the base, 3 to 5 lines long; bulb with a 



membranous coat; leaves J 4 inch wide or less. 

 Pedicels shorter than the perianth ; flowers white or pinkish. 



Flowers white with yellowish-green lines ; style included ; ovary on a short stipe 



2. C. angustifolium. 

 Flowers white with rose-colored midnerve or pinkish; style exserted as ovary matures; 



ovary sessile 3. C. parviflorum. 



Pedicels as long or longer than the perianth; flowers blue or purplish; ovary sessile 



4. C. purpureum. 



1. C. pomeridianum Kunth. SOAP PLANT. Plants 2 to 10 feet high, with 

 ample spreading panicle ; bulb 3 to 4 inches long and l 1 /^ to 2 inches thick with 

 a very dense coat of coarse brown fibres ; basal leaves numerous, % to 2!/2 feet 

 long, y 2 to l 1 /^ inches broad, carinate, strongly undulate ; pedicels slender, about 

 3 to 6 lines long; perianth-segments linear, 8 to 10 lines long, white, purple- 

 veined, spreading widely ; capsule 3 lines long, the valves pinnately nerved. 



Dry open low hills and plains, Sierra Nevada foothills, Great Valley, Coast 

 Eanges, south to cismontane Southern California, and north to southern Oregon. 



