and Multiplication in Erythronium 313 



While it does not bloom it brings only one flower. It is called 

 Dentali by Apotheckers in Stiermarck." 

 ^ In Lobelius' Stirpium, Antwerp, 1576, there is a good cut on 



page 64 of Erythronium with the brief description : " Erythronium 

 with colored flowers and unequal leaves." Satyrion Dens caninus, 

 Hermodactyliis and Pseiidohermodactylns are given as synonyms 

 used in different regions. " * * * Flowers either purple-red or 

 white, or purple and white mixed." 



Plunkenetius (Phytographia, 1692,3: 130). 



"Dens camnuS) flowers yellow, Virginianus" * 



Salmon's Herbal, 17 10. 



u Dogs tooth * * * the same as ' satyrion having red cortex 

 on the root/ in Dioscorides, lib. 3, ch. 144." Three color forms 

 are described having white, red and purple flowers respectively. 



Roberto Morrison, of London, in his Plantarum Historia 

 Oxonienis, 171 5, page 343, says that the name " Dens cams is 

 from the shape of the oblong tuberous root imitating the figure of 

 a dog's tooth, the name is good." " It has a capsule of three dis- 

 tinct valves. * * * When the flower is red the leaves are red 

 spotted, when white the spots are milky." 



Gronovius (Flora Virginica, 1739, 151, 1st edition). 



"Erythronium, leaves oval or oblong, glabrous, dark-spotted, 



flowers yellow." f (Cited in Linnaeus Spec. PI. 1753, as var. j % 

 under E. Dens-canis). 



Gronovius' Flore Virginia, Lugdonum, 1762, 51 (2d edi- 

 tion), contains a description of our native species. " Erythronium 

 with ovate oblong leaves, smooth, dark-spotted. Dens-catrinus 

 aquatalis, flower yellow, pendulous, leaves ovate-oblong, prostrate, 

 two upon a stalk, glabrous, dark -spotted. Blooming toward the 

 end of March." 



The reproduction by offshoots or runners, is mentioned in 

 Miller's Gardener's Dictionary, London, 1754, Vol. I., " Dens-canis 

 — Dog's tooth. * * * These plants are propagated by seeds, as 



Virginianus is italicized, as are authors cited on the same page, but here it may 

 be a typographical error for a reference to Virginia, since the European form has purple 

 or red flowers. 



fThis is probably the first description of the American species; especially in- 

 teresting, as it has the modern genus name. See previous note. 



