420 
base. 
LILIACEAE. 
Stamens 6, hypogynous, shorter than the perianth; anthers linear oblong, not versa- 
tile. Ovary sessile, 3-celled; ovules numerous or several in each cavity; style filiform or 
thickened above, 3-lobed or 3-cleft. Capsule obovoid or oblong, somewhat 3-angled, locu- 
licidal. 
flowers of some species. ] 
Violet. 
Stem with no offshoot; flowers 10'’-2' long. 
Seeds compressed, or somewhat angled and swollen. 
[Greek, in allusion to the red 
About 12 species, all but one North American. The species are erroneously called Dog’s-tooth 
Offshoots produced at the base of the corm; perianth-segments recurved. 
Flowers yellow; stigmas very short. 
I 
Flowers white, blue or purple; stigmas 1'’-114'' long, recurved. 2. 
No offshoots, propagating by basal corms; perianth-segments not recurved. 
Stem with a fleshy offshoot below the leaves; flowers rose, about 3s’ long. 
1. Erythronium Americanum Ker. 
Erythronium Americanum Ker, Bot. Mag. 
pl. 1113. 1 Je. 1808. 
Erythronium angustatum Raf. Med. Rep. 
(II.) 5: 354. 20 Jl. 1808. 
Erythronium bracteatum Bigel.; Beck, Bot. 
N. & Mid. States, 365. 1833. 
Corm ovoid, 6/’-10’’ high, producing off- 
‘shoots from its base. Stem 34°-1° long; 
leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 3/—S’ 
long, %/-2/ wide, acute or short-acuminate 
at the apex, flat, usually mottled with 
brown, but sometimes green all over, nar- 
rowed into clasping petioles; peduncle 
about as long as the leaves, rarely bearing a 
bract ; flower yellow, or rarely purplish 
tinged; perianth-segments oblong, 10’/—2’ 
long, 3/’-4’’ wide, recurved, dotted within, 
the 3 inner auricled .at the base; style club- 
shaped, with 3 very short stigmatic ridges; 
capsule obovoid, contracted into a short 
stipe, 6’/-10’’ high; seeds curved, rounded 
on the back, about 114’ long, pointed at 
both ends. 
Americanum. 
albidum. 
E. 
E. 
3. E. mesachoreum. 
4. E. propullans. 
In moist woods and thickets, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minnesota, south to Florida, Missouri 
and Arkansas. Ascends to 5500 ft. in Virginia. 
March-—May. 
2. Erythronium albidum Nutt. 
White Adder’s-tongue. 
(Fig. ror3.) 
Erythronium albidum Nutt. Gen. 1: 223. 1818. 
Similar to the preceding species, the plant 
propagating by offshoots from the base of the 
corm, the leaves mottled or green all over, 
sometimes rather narrower. Flower white, 
blue or purple; perianth-segments oblong, 
recurved, none of them auricled at the base; 
style somewhat thickened upward; stigmas 
linear, finally recurving, 1//-1!2’’ long; 
capsule obovoid or oblong, 5/’-9’’ high. 
In moist woods and thickets, Ontario to Min- 
nesota, south to Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. 
Not common eastward. March-May. 
