. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus ii. LILY FAMILY. 5°9 1. Quamasia hyacinthina (Raf.) Brit- ton. Wild Hyacinth. Fig. 1271. Scilla esculenta Ker, Bot. Mag. pi. 1754. 1813. Lemotrys hyacinthina Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 51. 1836. Scilla Fraseri A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 469. 1856. Camassia Fraseri Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 147. 1857- Quamasia esculenta Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 64. 1897. Not Ra
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus ii. LILY FAMILY. 5°9 1. Quamasia hyacinthina (Raf.) Brit- ton. Wild Hyacinth. Fig. 1271. Scilla esculenta Ker, Bot. Mag. pi. 1754. 1813. Lemotrys hyacinthina Raf. Fl. Tell. 3: 51. 1836. Scilla Fraseri A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 469. 1856. Camassia Fraseri Torr. Pac. R. R. Rep. 4: 147. 1857- Quamasia esculenta Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 11: 64. 1897. Not Raf. Bulb ovoid, i'-ii' long, its outer coat usu- ally nearly black. Scape slender, i°-2° tall, sometimes bearing 1 or 2 short linear scarious leaves; basal leaves narrowly linear, acumi- nate, shorter than the scape, ii"-4" wide; raceme open, 3'-8' long in flower, longer in fruit; flowers several or many; pedicels fili- form, 6"-io" long, about as long as the bracts and the perianth-segments; bracts long-acuminate; perianth-segments narrowly oblong, 3-5-nerved, blue or nearly white, longer than the stamens; capsule about 4" high, $"-6" thick, the valves transversely veined. In meadows and' along streams, Pennsylvania to Minnesota, Georgia and Texas. Ascends to 2100 ft. in Virginia. Eastern camass. April- 12. ORNITHOGALUM L. Sp. PI. 306. 1753. Scapose herbs, with coated bulbs, narrow basal fleshy leaves, and large white or yellow flowers in a terminal bracted corymb or raceme. Perianth-segments equal or nearly so, sepa- rate, white, or sometimes green without, persistent, faintly several-nerved. Stamens hypogy- nous; filaments flattened, often broad; anthers versatile, introrse. Ovary 3-celled, sessile; ovules several or numerous in each cavity; style short or columnar, 3-sided; stigma capitate, 3-lobed or 3-ridged. Capsule subglobose, 3-sided or 3-lobed, loculicidal. Seeds black. [Greek, signifying bird's milk, said to be in allusion t
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