350 LILIACE^E. (LILY FAMILY.) 



1. A. violaceum, Torr. Scape 2 to 6 inches high : flowers 8 to 12 lines 

 long or more, usually exceeding the stout pedicels ; tube nearly as long as the 

 limb ; crown scarcely shorter than the limb, the lobes exceeding the anthers. 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 218. W. Kansas to Texas. 



5. LEUCOCRINUM, Nutt. 



Stamens 6 : filaments inserted below the throat. Blooming in early spring, 

 the pure white and very fragrant flowers appearing just above the ground. 



1. L. montanum, Nutt. Leaves several, rather thick : flowers 4 to 8, 

 the very slender tube an inch or two long : capsule truncate, with 4 to 6 seeds 

 in each cell. From Colorado to N. California. 



6. CAMASSIA, Lindl. CAMASS. 



Stamens 6, on the base of the perianth, shorter than the segments. Style 

 slightly trifid at the apex. Flowers in a simple raceme, with narrow scarious 

 bracts ; pedicels jointed at the summit. 



1. C. esculenta, Lindl. Scape stout, a foot or two high : pedicels rather 

 stout, mostly shorter than the usually dark-blue flowers : perianth-segments 

 scarcely exceeding the style, a little longer than the stamens. From the 

 Wahsatch Mountains, northward and westward. The bulb largely collected 

 for food by the Indians, and called " Green Gammas." 



7. POLYGONATUM, Tourn. SOLOMON'S SEAL. 



Ovules 1 to 3 pairs in each cell. Berry blue or black ; cells 1 to 2-seeded. 

 Stem somewhat curved : leaves sessile : bracts caducous, minute. 



1. P. giganteum, Dietr. Glabrous throughout: stem 2 to 7 feet high: 

 leaves broadly ovate to lanceolate, usually clasping by a broad base : pedicels 

 jointed below the base of the flower. From the Upper Missouri and New 

 Mexico to New England and Virginia. 



8. SMILACINA, Desf. FALSE SOLOMON'S SEAL. 



Stamens 6 : filaments subulate. Stigma 3-lobed at the summit : ovules 

 2 in each cell. Stems simple, leafy, from running rootstocks : leaves mostly 

 sessile, oblong or lanceolate : pedicels jointed at the summit. 



* Flowers in a terminal racemose panicle : stamens exserted : berry reddish. 



1. S. amplexicaulis, Nutt. More or less pubescent : stem 1 to 3 feet 

 high : leaves ovate to lanceolate, mostly sessile and clasping at base : style 

 nearly equalling the ovarv- S. racemosa, var. amplexicaulis, Watson, Bot. 

 King Exped. v. 345. From New Mexico to Wyoming and westward to Cali- 

 fornia and British Columbia. 



* * Flowers in a simple few-floicered open raceme : stamens included : berry 



blue-black. 



2. S. Stellata, Desf. Glabrous or pubescent : stem a foot high or less : 

 leaves lanceolate, acutish, sessile and closely clasping, usually ascending and 



