146 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



POLYGONATUM, Tourn. Solomon's Seal. 



P. biflorum, Ell. Smaller Solomon's Seal. 



Frequent, occasloaally common, throughout most of the state ; extending north to 

 lake Superior, Whitney, and Pembina, Havard. 



P. g'ig-aiiteiiiii, Dietrich. Great Solomon's Seal. 



Frequent, or common, throughout the state. {Mr. Lewis Foote remarks that these 

 species are not separable in their varying forms, but seem to constitute a single poly- 

 morphous species.) 



ASPARAGUS, L. Asparagus. 



A. officinalis, L. Garden Asparagus. 



Adventive : Minneapolis ; Cannon River Falls ; lake Pepin ; Blue Earth county; 

 New Ulm. 



LILIUM, L. Lilt. 



L. Pliilatlelphicum, L. Wild Orange- red Lily. 



Generally common, or frequent, throughout the state ; especially in Sherburne and 

 Todd counties, in the Red river valley, and thence south to Iowa. 



Li. Canadeuse, L. Nodding Wild Yellow Lily. 



Common throughout the east half of the state ; less frequent in the Red river valley ; 

 rare southwestward. 



L. supei'biiin, L. Turk's-cap Lily. " Wild Tiger-Lily." 



Upper Mississippi river, Garrison; Minneapolis, Twining, Simmons-^ Excelsior, Hen- 

 nepin county, Mrs. Terry ; Nicollet county, Aiton; Martin county, QecJge ; Cannon 

 River Falls, Blake, Sandberg ; lake Pepin, Miss Manning ; Hesper, Iowa, Mrs. Carter. 

 Infrequent. Soutli. 



EKYTHKONIUM, L. Adder's-Tongue. Dog's-tooth Violet. 



E . Aiuericaumn, Smith. Yellow Adder's-tongue or Dog's-tooth Violet. 

 Saint Paul, Miss Co(/icart; Lake City, Mrs. Ray; Y/\nona,,Holzinger; plentiful lo- 

 cally near Hesper, Iowa, Mrs. Carter ; Blue Earth county, Leiberg. [Lake Superior, 

 Whitney; l!(ehrsLsyia,,Aughey.] Infrequent. East and south. 



E. albiclum, Nutt. White Adder's-tongue or Dog's-tooth Violet. 



Common, often abundant, southeastward ; less frequent, or rare, southwestward; 

 extending north to St. Croix Falls, Miss Field, Stearns county, Campbell, aud Brown 

 county, Juni. 



E. in'opiiUaus, Gray.* Adder's-tongue. Dog's- tooth Violet. 



Faribault (abundant), MissBeane ; described and figured by Professor Gray In the 

 American Natm-alist, vol. v, pp. 298-300, July, 1871, from specimens "collected at Fari- 

 bault, Minnesota, by Mrs. Mary B. Hedges, the teacher of botany in St. Mary's Hall." 



*Erythronium rROPDLL.\Ns, Gray. The flower is much smaller than that of any 

 other known species, being barely half an inch long ; and its color, a bright pink or 

 rose, like that of the European E. Dens-Canis, reflects the meaning of the generic 

 name (viz., red), which is lost to us in our two familiar Adder-tongues, one with yel- 

 low, the other with white, blossoms. The most singular peculiarity of the new species 

 is found ill the way in which the bulb propagates. In E. Dens-Canis new bulbs are 

 produced directly from tlie side of the old one, on which tliey are sessile, so that the 

 plant as it multiplies forms close clumps. In our E. Americanum long and slender off- 

 shoots, or subterranean runners, proceed from the base of the parent bulb and develop 

 the new bulb at their distant apex. Our western E. albidum does not differ in this re- 

 spect. In the new species an ofE>lioot springs from the ascending slender stem, or sub- 



