136 Class VI. Order I. 



Syn. EarTHRONJUM LANCEOLATUM. Pursh. 

 ERTTHRONIUM DENSCJNIS. MX. 



A delicate liliaceous plant with spotted leaves. The root is a 

 solid bulb, situated deep in the ground, brown outside, white an<i 

 homogenous within. The whole plant is smooth and glossy. 

 Scape naked, slender. Leaves two, nearly equal, lanceolate, 

 yeinless, of a dark brownish green, clouded with irregular spots, 

 sheathing the scape with their base, and terminating in an ob- 

 tuse callous point. Flower solitary, drooping. Petals six, lan- 

 ceolate, yellow, the three outermost partly crimson on the out- 

 side, the three innermost having an obtuse tooth on each side 

 near the base. In a clear sun the petals are expanded and revo- 

 lute, but at night and on cloudy days they are nearly closed. 

 Filaments flat, anthers oblong-linear. Germ obovate, style lon- 

 ger than the stamens, club-shaped, three lobed at top and termi- 

 nating in three distinct, but not detached stigmas. Capsule ob- 

 long obovate, somewhat pedicelled. In rich, moist soils, South 

 Boston, Cambridge. May. Perennial. 



" ERYTHRONIUM BRACTEATUM. Bracted Erythronium. 



E. scapo bracteato ; foliis lanceolatis incequalibus. 

 Scape bracted ; leaves lanceolate, unequal. 



Leaves very unequal, the primary one being two or three 

 times a;; large as the secondary. Scape shorter than the leaves 

 with a narrow lanceolate bracte about an inch long, situated an 

 inch or two below the flower. Corolla yellow, half as large as 

 in the preceding species, petals gibbous at base. Stamens half 

 as long as the corolla. Style clavate ; stigmas united ? Discov- 

 ered by Mr. Boott on the Camel's Rump mountain, Vermont, 

 and by him designated by the foregoing name. June. 



148. L1LIUM. 



LILIUM CANADENSE. L. Common yellow Lily. 



Leaves in whorls ; flowers terminal, drooping, 

 petals spreading. 



A great portion of our meadows are embellished with the 

 flowers of this lily in the first part of summer. Stem green, va- 

 rying in height from one to three feet, with lanceolate leave? 



