38 KEY AND FLORA 



XIV. CAMASSIA Lindl. (QUAMASIA) 



Herbs appearing stemless, from coated bulbs. Leaves linear. 

 Flowers racemed on a scape. • Perianth of 6 blue or purple 

 spreading sepals. Stamens with, thread-like filaments, slightly 

 perigynous. Style thread-like, ending in a knobbed stigma. 

 Capsule 3-angled, 3-celled, several-seeded. 



1. C. esculenta Robinson. Wild Hyacinth. Leaves keeled, weak, 

 shorter than the scape. Flowers in a long-bracted raceme, pale blue. 

 River bottoms and other damp, rich soil. 



XV. ORNITHOGALUM L. 



Herbs appearing stemless, from coated bulbs. Leaves linear, 

 fleshy. Scape erect. Flowers *in corymbs or racemes, bracted. 

 Perianth segments 6, white, nerved, persistent. Stamens 6, 

 hypogynous, slender; filaments flattened. Ovary sessile, 3- 

 celled, few-ovuled. Fruit a roundish, 3-angled capsule, seeds 

 black.* 



1. 0. umbellatum L. Star of Bethlehem. Bulb ovoid, mem- 

 branous-coated. Leaves numerous, linear, fleshy; mid-vein nearly 

 white, as long as the scape. Scape slender, 6-12 in. high. Flowers 

 opening in sunshine, long-pediceled. Bracts linear-lanceolate, about 

 as long as the pedicels. Perianth segments oblong-lanceolate, white 

 with a green stripe on the back, twice the length of the stamens. 

 Introduced from Europe ; very common about old gardens.* 



XVI. HYACIHTHUS L. 



Herbs appearing stemless, from coated bulbs. Leaves linear, 

 fleshy. Flowers in an erect spike, pediceled, bracted. Perianth 

 tubular below, lobed and spreading above. Stamens short, in- 

 cluded. Style short; stigma knobbed; ovary 3-eelled, mauy- 

 ovuled.* 



1. H. orientalis L. Hyacinth. Leaves lance-linear, thick and 

 fleshy, smooth. Scape erect, many-flowered. Segments united about 

 half their length, white, blue, or red. Filaments very short. Ovary 

 rarely maturing seed. Common in cultivation.* 



XVII. YUCCA L. 



Plants with woody and leafy stems. Leaves numerous, rigid, 

 spine-pointed, persistent. Flowers in large terminal racemes 



