646 LILIACE^ camabbia 



rbizotne: tube of the perianth 1-3 inches long; eegmpnts 6-9 lines long: 

 anthers 2-3 lines long: capsule somewhat wrinkled, truncate above 3-4 

 lines long : feeds 4-6 in e^ch cell. In mountain valleys, eahtern 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, slightly 3-lobed at the apex, the base 

 persistent. Capsule 3-lobed and angled,' thick-membranaceous, 

 loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds several in each cell, often more or 

 less compressed_or angled, with thin black testa. 



C. esculents Lindl. 1. c. Scape rather stout, 1-2)4 feet high, from an 

 ovoid bulb 14-^14 inches in diametr: leaves 10-12 inches long, 3-8 lines 

 wide,5^usually,.attenuate above and nearly as long as the scape: bracts 

 subulate, 1-2 inches long, acuminate: pedicels shorter than the bractp: 

 perianth >omewhat',odlique, one of the outer segments turning downward, 

 all of the others upward, dark to light blue, the outer ones narrowly lan- 

 ceolate nearly an inch long; the inner ones broader and abruptly contracted 

 at base to a short claw not twisted over tiie young capsule but loose at its 

 base, stamens nearly equalling the segments, with oblbng anther 1-2 lines 

 long: ovules 16-18 in each cell : capsule oblong obovate, somewhat narrow- 

 ed at base, rather obtusely anglea,6-12 lines long. Common in wet mead- 

 ows, Brit. Columbia to Califqrnia and the^Eocky mountains. 



C. LeichtUnii Watson Proc. Am. Acad, xx, 376. Scape rather slen- 

 der 1-2 feet high : leaves aoout a foot long, -1-6 lines wide, the edges involu- 

 te'at the apex and thus apparently attenuate : bracts scarsous or.'colored, 

 or the lowest ones green, linear- lanceolate, often longer than the bracts: 

 perianth regular or nearly so, dark blue : the segmentsfrather broadly_ lan- 

 ceolate, an inch 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 Wat-hington. 



C.;iCusickii Watson 1. c. xxii, 479. Bulbs clustered (1-12), lar^e, 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. aznrea Heller Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxvi, 547, under Quamasia. 

 Pcape 14-16 inches high fiom a deep seated bulli, glabrous, sparingly leafy 

 below: leaves about % ihe lensih of the scape below the infloiescencp,2-3 

 lines wide, somewhat glaucous beneath : pedicels slender, 10-12 lines 

 long: bracts abi-ut as long as the pedicels, bluish or straw-color, chatfy, 

 lanceolate, tapering into a long slender acnmination, prominently veined: 

 perianth bright blue, about an inch long, the segments persistent, ahout 2 

 fines wide. 6-nerved : capsule about ^ inches hi_gh, 3 angled: seeds shining 

 black. On grassy plains near Montesano Washington 



