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. Witp Hyacintu. 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 or BeTHLruEem. 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. HYACINTHUS 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-celled, many- 
ovuled.* 
1. H. orientalis L. Hyacintn. 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 
