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646 LILIACEX CAMASSIA 
rhizome: tube of the perianth 1-3 inches long; segments 6-9 lines long: 
anthers 2-3 lines long: cap-ule somewhat wrinkled, truncate above 3-4. 
lines long: seeds 4-6 in each cell. In mountain valleys, eastern Oregon to 
California, Nebraska and Dakota. 
5 CAMASSIA Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1486. (1832.) 
Perennial herbs with scapose stems from tunicated bulbs, flat 
leaves and rather large blue to white flowers in simple bracted 
racemes on jointed pedicels. Perianth of 6 distinct 3-7-nerved 
persistent segments. Stamens 6, inserted on the base of the peri- 
anth, shorter than its segments: filaments filiform-subulate: an- 
thers introrse, versatile. Ovary sessile, with several ovules in 
each cell. Style filiform, siightly 3-lobed at the apex, the base 
persistent. Capsule 3-lobed and angled, thick-memtranaceous, 
loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds several in each cell, often more or 
less compressed or angled, with thin black testa. 
C. _ escul indl. 1. c. Scape rather stout, 1-214 feet high, from an 
ovoid bulb 14-144 inches in diametr: leaves 10-12 inches long, 3-8 lines 
wide, usually,,attenuate above and nearly. as long as the scape: bracts 
subulate, 1-2 inches long, acuminate: pedicels shorter than the bracts: 
perianth somewhatvodlique, one of the outer segments turning downward, 
all of the others upward, dark to light blue, the outer ones narrowly lan- 
ceclate nearly an inch long, the inner ones broader and abruptly contracted 
at base to a short claw uot twisted over the young capsule but loose at its 
base, stamens nearly equalling the segments, with oblong anther 1-2 lines 
long: ovules 16-18 in each cell: capsule oblong obovate, somew hat narrow- 
ed at base, rather obtusely angled, 6-12 lines long. Common in wet mead- 
ows, Brit. Columbia to California and the Rocky mountains. 
C. Leichtlinii Watson Proc. Am, Acad. xx, 376. Scape rather slen- » 
der 1-2 feet high: leaves about a fuot long, 41-6 lines wide, the edges invelu- 
te at the apex and thus apparently attennate: bracts scarsous or colored, 
or the lowest ones green, linear-lanceolate, often longer than the bracts: 
perianth regular or nearly so, dark blue: the segmentstrather broadly lan- 
ceolate, aninch or more long,’ but little longer than the stamens, connivent 
over the young capsule and:at length deciduous together: capsule oblong- 
obovate, sl ghtly emarginate at the apex, usually 8-10 lines long and shorter 
than the pedicels: seeds odovate, dull. In wet meadows in the Cascade 
Mountains Oregon and Washington. 
C. Cusickii Watson |. c. xxii, 479. Bulbs clustered (1-12), large. 1-2 
inches thick or more, and bearing 8- 20 large glaucous leaves 12-18 inches 
long, 6-18 lines wide; stem 2-3 feet high: pedicels 6-12 lines long or more: 
flowers large, pale blue, the narrow segments 3-5-nerved, persistently 
spreading; capsule oblong, abruptly acute, transversely veined, 6-8 lines 
long: seeds odovate, shining. On slopes of the Eagle Creek Mountains, 
eastern Oregon. 
C. azurea Heller Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. xxvi, 547, under Quamasia. 
€cape 14-16 inches high from a deep seated bulb, glabrous, sparingly leafy 
- below: Jeaves about 24 the length of the scape below the inflorescence, 2-3 
lines wide, somewhat glaucous beneath: pedicels slender, 10-12 lines 
long: bracts abeut as long as the pedicels, bluish or straw-color, chatty, 
lanceolate, tapering into a long slender acumination, prominently veined : 
erianth bright blue, about an inch long, the segments persistent, about 2 
ines wide. 5-nerved: capsule about 34 inches high, 3 angled: seeds shining 
black. On grassy plains near Montesano Washington 
