Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
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coated bulbs, narrowly linear leaves folded together length¬ 
wise and small, perfect, or polygamous flowers in racemes 
or panicles. Petals and sepals bearing an obovate or semi- 
orbicular gland at or above the base of the blade. Ovary 
wholly superior. Stamens more or less adnate to the base 
of the petals and sepals. Anthers subreniform. Ovary 
3-celled. Capsule 3-beaked, containing numerous seeds. 
1. Toxicoscordion Nuttallii (A. Gray) R'ydb. Nuttall’s Cam- 
ass. Light green, scarcely glaucous, stem 12'-24' high. Bulb large, 
coated. Leaves 3"-8" wide, shorter than the stem, strongly con- 
duplicate, the upper very short. Briacts membranous, scarious, short¬ 
er than the slender pedicels. 
Prairies. May-June. Oklahoma County. 
FAMILY 4. LILIACEJE. Lily Family. 
Mostly herbs. Flowers regular and symmetrical. Peri¬ 
anth free from the ovary. Stamens nearly always 6, one 
before each division of the perianth. Ovary usually 3- 
celled. Fruit a pod or berry, few-many-seeded. In our 
■•pecies the divisions of the perianth are colored nearly 
alike. 
Stem a woody caudex; leaves rigid, mostly bearing 
marginal flowers. 1. Yucca. 
Plants with bulbs or corms. 
Flowers umbeled. 
Perianth 6-parted. 
Odor characteristically onion-like. II. Allium. 
Odor not onion-like. III. Nothoscordum. 
Perianth funnel-form, the tube about as long as 
the lobes. IV. Androstephium. 
Flowers solitary. 
Leaves only 2, appearing basal; flowers bractless. 
V. Erythronium, 
