168 ERYTHRONIUM. No. 35. 



Ao. 35- 



ERYTHRONIUM FLA\ UM. 



English Name— YELLOW SNAKELEAF. 



French Name — Dent-de-Chien Jaune. 



Gei^man Name — Gele Hundzahn. 



Officinal Name — Erythronium. 



TuLGAK Names — Yellow Adder's tongue. Adder- 

 leaf, Dog-Violet, Rattle Snake violet, Lamb's tongue, 

 Scrofula root, Yellow Snow drop, &c. 



Synonyms — E. Jlavum Smith. E. americannm 

 Ker, Nuttal, Torrey, &c. E. dens-cams Mich. 



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Poiret, 



E. longifoli 



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AuTHOBiTiEs— Michaux, Pursh, Smith, Nuttal, 

 Elliott, Torrey, Bigelow, fig. 58, and Sequel, W. 

 Barton, flora fig. 33, Coxe, Zollickoflfer, &c. 



Genus Erythbonium — Perigone corolliform, with 

 six deciduous colored sepals, subequal, eampanulate ; 

 the three inner ones with a fiassule at the base. Sta- 

 mina six subequal, inserted at the base of each sepal. 

 One pistil, germ turbinate. Style fistulose. Stigma 

 clavate three lobed, Capsul obovate, three celled, 

 three valved, with many ovate seeds.— Stem with 

 two opposite leases and one flower, root bulbous. 



Species E. Flavttm — Leaves subequal, subradical, 

 lanceolate, mucronate, smooth, entire, flower nodding, 

 aepaU oblong-lanceolate, obtusp. ihf> ir,n^r nnps bi- 



