ERANTHIS—ERINOSMA. 87 
E. hyemalis.—The only cultivated species. It 
has a pretty little yellow flower, valuable for its early 
blooming, and contrasting well with the Snowdrop, its 
only companion in earliness, excepting, possibly, the 
Scilla siberica, which appears before the others are 
entirely passed. ‘The yellow, white and blue flowers of 
ERANTHIS HYEMALIS, 
the three genera, all delicate and low growing, form, 
when planted in close contact, in early spring a cheering 
mass of bloom. The Eranthis grows about three inches 
high, producing solitary terminal flowers. The tubers 
soon lose their vitality when out of the ground; they 
increase rapidly, and require but little attention after 
once planting. 
ERINOSMA. 
See Leucoium. 
