CATALOGUE. 349 



narrow-lanceolate, acuminate, reflcxed ; stigma capitate or more or less 3-cleft 

 and spreading; capsule 9-18" long, 4-5" wide, oblong, subtriangular.— 

 From Washington Territory and Idaho to California and Colorado. Fre- 

 quent in the Wahsatch and Uintas; 6-10,000 feet altitude; May-August. 

 None of the reputed forms merit the rank of varieties. (1,175.) 



Leucoceinum^ montanum, Nutt. Leaves 6-8' long, U" wide, flat or 

 somewhat folded-carinate toward the base, thick, striate- veined, decumbent ; 

 outer bracts broad and mostly obtuse, the inner very narrow and elongated ; 

 flowers 4-8, much shorter than the leaves, the peduncles 4-lJ' long, all 

 radical, 1-flowered ; tube persistent, 1-2' long, filiform ; segments of the hmb 

 6-8" long, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; stamens equaling the sepals, the linear 

 anthers about 2" long; style equaling the filaments ; capsule 3-4" in diameter, 

 scarcely appearing above ground. — Flowers pure white, very fragrant, appear- 

 ing in early spring. The genus is referred by Endlicher to the little known 

 Mexican Weldenia. The affinity is certainly close and the reference may 

 prove correct. Southern Wyoming ; Colorado ; California, (380 Fremont, 

 1846.) Carson Valley, near Carson City ; April. Plate XXXVI. Fig. 1. 

 Plant ; natural size. Fig. 2. Flower, laid open ; enlarged two diameters. 

 Fig. 3. Capsule; natural size. (1,176.) 



Also a much larger form, more nearly resembhng Nuttall's original 

 specimens ; leaves 10-12' long and 2" wide, surrounded at base by the fibrous 

 remains of the previous year's growth ; the more advanced flowers 2' in 

 diameter ; tube 4' long, and the peduncle becoming 2' in length ; style mostly 

 exceeding the stamens. Humboldt Valley, Nevada, near Oreana. (1,177.) 



Camassia^ esculenta, Lindl. KuntKs Enum. 4. 347. Scape 1-2 J° high ; 



' LEUCOCEINTJM, Nutt. Perianth . corolline, salyer-shaped, marcescent ; tube very slender, 

 elongated ; limb 6-parted, regular. Stamens 6, nearly equal ; filaments adnata to the tube nearly its 

 whole length, filiform ; anthers erect, becoming curved, linear, 2-celled, attached by the emarginate base, 

 introrse with a lateral dehiscence. Ovary globose-ovate, 3-oelled ; ovules about 12 in each cell, in 2 rows, 

 horizontal or subpendulous, on short foot-stalks. Style filiform, undivided ; stigma dilated into a some- 

 what triangular cup. Capsule subglobose, obtusely triangular, membranous, loculicidally dehiscent. 

 Seeds 5-6 in each cell, in 2 rows, subglobose. — A perennial acaulesoent herb, with a short thick subter- 

 ranean root-stock and fleshy spreading elongated rootlets ; leaves thick, linear, surrounded at base by 

 membranous bracts ; flowers white, peduncled. 



^CAMASSIA, Lindl. Perianth 6-parted, spreading, withering-persistent; sepals very slightly 

 connate at base, subequal, 3-5-nerved on the back. Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth, 

 shorter than the sepals, equal. Filaments iiliform, ascending. Anthers oblong, 2-celled, introrse, emar- 

 ginate above and bifid below, attached by the middle, longitudinally dehiscent along each margin. 

 Ovary free, sessile, subglobose, 3-celled ; ovules 8-16, in 2 rows, sessile, anatropous. Style filiform. 

 Stigma with 3 short recurved lobes. Capsule chartaceous, rounded or oblong, obtusely triangular, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds as the ovules, oblong, somewhat flattened, black.— Herbs with tunicated 

 bulbs and leafless scapes ; leaves linear, striate-nerved ; flowers solitary, pediceUed, in a simple raceme, 

 mostly bracted. 



