Tab. 6287. 
CAMASSIA esculenta, var. Leichtlinii. 
Native of British Columbia. 
Nat. Ord. Liliace^. — Tribe Scilleab. 
Genus Camassta, Lindl. ( Balter in Joiim. Linn. Soc. vol. xiii. p. 256). 
Camassia esculenta var. Leichtlinii ; foliis lineari-loratis, racemo laxo subpedali 
interdum furcato, pedicellis 6-12 lin. longis apice distincte articulatis, 
perianthii 12-15 lin. longi albi segmentis dorso 7-nervatis. 
Chloeogalum Leichtlinii, Balter in Card. Ghron. 1874, p. 689 . 
This is a third subspecies of Quamash, differing from the 
well-known Camassia esculenta , Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1. 1486, 
by its more robust habit, broader leaves, laxer sometimes 
compound raceme, and larger flowers with more numerous 
nerves in the keel of the segments of the perianth. At first, 
led by its compound raceme and distinctly articulated 
pedicels I was inclined to place it in the genus Chhrogalum , 
but now after having seen further and better specimens, I am 
convinced that the present is its correct position. It was dis- 
covered by Mr. John Jeffrey in British Columbia in 1853. As 
a garden plant my first knowledge of it was derived from 
our indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichtlin, Esq. The 
present sketch was taken from a plant which flowered on the 
rockery in Kew Gardens in May, 1873. The ordinary 
colour of the flowers of C. esculenta and of C. Fraser i , its 
representative in the Eastern States, is blue, but in all the 
specimens which I have seen of the present plant the flowers 
are white. 
Descr. Bulb globose, one and a half inch in diameter, with 
brown membranous tunics. Leaves about half-a-dozen in a 
basal rosette, linear-lorate, a foot or a foot and a half long at 
the flowering time, an inch or more broad low down, 
narrowed gradually to the point. Scape one and a half to 
two feet long, terete. Raceme a foot long, sometimes 
branched ; pedicels solitary, erecto-patent, half an inch to an 
inch long, distinctly articulated at the tip ; bracts lanceolate, 
MABCH 1ST, 1877, 
