. 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. i. Toxicoscordion Nuttallii (A. Gray) Rydb. Nuttall's Camass. Fig. 1232. Amianthium Nuttallii A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 123. 1837. Zygadenus Nuttallii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 279. 1879. T. Nuttallii Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 30: 272. 1903. Light green, scarcely glaucous, stem i°—2° high. Bulb large, coated; leaves 3"-8" wide, shorter than the stem
. 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. i. Toxicoscordion Nuttallii (A. Gray) Rydb. Nuttall's Camass. Fig. 1232. Amianthium Nuttallii A. Gray, Ann. Lye. N. Y. 4: 123. 1837. Zygadenus Nuttallii S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 279. 1879. T. Nuttallii Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 30: 272. 1903. Light green, scarcely glaucous, stem i°—2° high. Bulb large, coated; leaves 3"-8" wide, shorter than the stem, strongly conduplicate, the upper very short; inflorescence racemose or paniculate bracts mem- branous, scarious, shorter than the slender pedicels; flowers mostly perfect, about 6" broad; perianth- segments oval or ovate, obtuse, free from the ovary, thin, short-clawed, bearing a roundish spot-like gland; capsule 4"-6" long. On prairies, Kansas, Colorado and Arkansas. May- June. 2. Toxicoscordion gramineum Rydb. Death- camass. Fig. 1233. Zygadenus venenosus Rydb. Cohtr. Dept. Agric. 3: 525. 1896. Not S. Wats. Zygadenus gramineus Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 27: 535. 1900. T. gramineum Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club 30: 272. 1903. Pale green, stem slender, 6-20 tall, from a small coated bulb. Leaves conduplicate, roughish, 2"-3" wide, shorter than the stem, the upper small and distant; inflorescence a simple or somewhat branched raceme, 2'-4' long in flower, elongating in fruit, the slender pedicels longer than the scarious lanceolate bracts; flowers yellow or yellowish, polygamous, about 4" wide; perianth-segments ovate or elliptic, obtuse or acutish, short-clawed, free from the ovary, bearing a roundish gland with an irregular margin; fruiting pedicels erect; capsule longer than the perianth. South Dakota to Saskatchewan, Idaho, Nebraska and Utah. Hog's-potato. Roots poisonous. Death-camass. 12. OCEANORUS Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 252. 1903. A glabr
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