LILY FAMILY. 353 
stigma 3-angled. Capsule membranaccous, roundish, obtusely trigonous, 
3-celled. Seeds few in a cell, subglobose or angular ; testa black, rugose. 
Scape = linear-chanvelled leaves from a coated bulb. Flowers corym- 
bose, or racemose, bracted. 
4.0, sel tum, L. TRacemes corymbose ; peduncles longer than the 
bracts ; perianth lobes white within, green outside, with white margins. 
Umpeinate Ornitnocatum. ‘Ten o'clock. ‘Star of Bethlehem. 
Fr. Dame d’onze heures. Germ. Die Vogelmilch. Span. Ornitogalo. 
Bulbs biennial? small, white. Leaves radical, numerous, 6-12 in ies long, very 
smooth, green with a whitish longitudinal line. Seapes 6-9 nopapoe high, terete, smooth, 
pot segaar—ag branched at summit,—the branches or peduncles alternate, | -2 inches long, 
a membranaceous linear-lanceolate Bid emer: ermge base. white 
within DS apioioeaell reen with a white margin. Ovary somewhat eryinaos-tarbiesti, often 
wastes and cultivated fields : introduced. Native of the old world. Fl. May -June. 
uly 
Obs. This foreigner has escaped from be Ve oh in many pentica 
and multiplies its ame so rapidly as 8 se ome a great nuisance, if 
neglected. The bulbs are exceedingly tenacious of life ; and inca 
completely in possession "ot the soil, it is an "alia hopeless task to at- 
pt by stg them. eaves gen si die, however, in the ear' 
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cary 
summer,—and, in good land, are replaced by the saree 
grasses ; so that: this piioatets little satralie is not quite so serious 
lertanee as some others ;—such, for <a as the Canada Thistle, or Ox. 
4. SOIL'LA, L. Squu.. 
[The ancient name.] 
Perianth of 6 colored rates or purple) spreadi idu 
Bn e) spreading divisions, mostly decidu- 
ous, with 6 awl-sha iw fe ee Style a 42 Pod 
Zangled, S-valved, st acts black, oundish seeds i cell_— 
Scape and linear-leaves from a coated Babe ; the usually as 
i a simple raceme, — 
1, 1 8, Fra’ geri, a Leaves long, linear, keeled; bracts solitary, lon- 
stigma minutely 3-cleft. 
acs Scmta. Eastern Quamash. Wild Hyacinth. 
pli ar Scape about a foot high, bearing a long raceme of pale blue flowers. 
Prairies and banks of 
oa — —— inch long, 3- ——— 
: Ohio and west 
Oy "Tis ia the cleat Quam, o Camass, which serves as 
fo for some ‘some of the the Indian tribes of the far west ee roasted, 
mite be be sweet-tasted and and agreeable. — 
