uLiLM. HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 349 



II. p. 89. Bot. Mag. t. 800, 858. Mich. Fl. I. p. 197. 

 Pursh FlA.^.'22d. Big. Bost.^.m. Elliott Sk. 

 J. p. 388. 



Root a middle-sized bulb. Stetn 2 — 4 feet high, smooth and 

 shilling. Leaves by sixes, in rather distarit whorls, acute, dis- 

 tinctly 3-nerved. Flowers generally 3, sometimes solitary, on 

 very long peduncles, yellow, with numerous roundish fulvous 

 spots Off the inside ; petals turned outward above the middle, 

 but scarcely revolute, acuminate. 



IIab. In wet meadows and on the banks of rivers. June — July. 



3. L. suptrhum L, : leaves verticillate, linear-lanceolate, 

 .3-nerved, smooth ; the upper ones scattered ; flowers in a 

 pyramidal raceme, reflexed ; petals revolute. IV i lid. Spec. 

 il. p. 88. Bot. Mag. t. 930. Pursh Fl. I. p. 230. E I- 

 liottSk. 1.389. fF a /f. Car. p. 123. 



Jiaot a large scaly bulb. Stem 4 — 6 feet high, terete, very 

 smooth. Leaves on the lower part of the stem by sixes, nar- 

 row-lanceolate, attenuate ; upper ones more or less scattered. 

 Flowers 3 — 20, in a large pyramidal raceme, bright orange, 

 with dark purple spots ; petals linear-lanceolate, beautifully 

 revolute. Capsules becoming erect as they ripen. 



Hab. In wet meadows and swamps. July. Turk's-cap — 



Golden Martagon. 

 A very splendid species ; not very common north of New- 

 York. 



4. L. Cateshczi Walt.: leaves scattered, linear-lanceo- 

 late ; stem I -flowered; corolla erect ; petals with long claws, 

 undulate on the margin, reflexed at the tip. W a 1 1. Car, p. 

 123. Wi I Id. Spec. II. p. 86. Bot. Mag, t '2b9. Mich. 

 Fl. I. p. 1 97. Purs h Fl. I. p. 228. Elliott Sk. 1. p. 

 387. C at e s b. Car, 11. t. 38. L. spectabile S a li s h. icon. 

 rar. 5. t. 5. 



Hoot a scaly bulb. Stem a foot and a half high, terete, very 

 smooth. Leaves about 2 inches long, and scarcely 2 lines 

 broad, very acute, adpressed. Flowers large, scarlet, spotted 

 with yellow and brown ; petals ovate-lanceolate, much acu- 

 minate, tapering into a long claw at the base. 



Hab. In Pennsylvania. July. Muhlenberg. 



L. pennsylvanicum of the Botanical Magazine, 872, is 

 supposed by Mr. Nut tall to be merely a hybrid of the 

 gardens. 



243. ERYTHRONIUM. L. 



Corolla 6-petalled, subcampanulate ; petals reflexed ; 

 the interior ones with a callous tooth on each side near 



