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purple, 9 to 12 lines long, on long pedicels. — Benth. Pl. Hartw. 338 ; 
Baker, |. c. 270. Sierra Nevada (Butte and Placer Counties). 
9. F.pupica, Spreng. Bulb-scales very small and rounded: stem 
low, usually 1—-3-flowered: leaves 3 to 8: flowers yellow or orange, 
tinged outside with purple, 5 to 9 lines long. — Baker, 1. c. 267. 
Lilium (?) pudicum, Pursh, Fl 228, t. 8. Amblirion pudicum, Rat. ; 
Torr. Stansb. Rep. 396, t.9. Theresia pudica, Klatt, Hamb. Gart. 
16. 439. Northern Sierra Nevada to British Columbia, and east to 
Utah and Montana. 
28. ERYTHRONIUM, Linn. 
* Flowers solitary: capsule obovate: often propagating by offshoots or 
runners. 
1. E. Americanum, Smith. Offshoots arising from the base of 
the bulb: leaves oblong-lanceolate, mottled and dotted: flower light 
yellow, often dotted at base, 10 to 20 lines long: style club-shaped 
and stigmas coherent: capsule 6 lines long. — Ker, Bot. Mag. t. 1113; 
Bigel. Med. Bot. 3. 151, t. 58; Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 14. 298. 
E. dens-canis, var., Linn. £. Carolinianum, Walt. E. lanceolatum, 
Pursh. #. angustatum and flavum, Raf. £. bracteatum, Boott. £. 
Nuttallianum, Schult.; Regel, Gartenfl. 1871, t. 695. Canada (New 
Brunswick to W. Ontario) to Florida and Arkansas. 
2. E. arerpum, Nutt. Like the last, but leaves usually narrower 
and not mottled nor dotted: flowers bluish-white ; segments not toothed 
at base: style more slender, the stigmas somewhat spreading. — Gen. 
1, 223 ; Baker, l.c. 298. New York and Pennsylvania to Minnesota 
and Texas. 
3. E. proputians, Gray. Offshoot arising from the stem near 
the middle: leaves smaller and more acuminate: flowers bright rose- 
color, yellowish at base, 6 lines long: style slender; stigmas coherent. 
— Amer. Naturalist, 5. 298, £. 74; Baker, l. c. 299. Minnesota. 
* x Flowers one to several: capsule oblong: new corms sessile at the base 
of the old. 
4. E. GRANDIFLORUM, Pursh. Corm often 2 inches long, narrow : 
leaves not mottled, opposite: flowers solitary or racemose (1 to 6), 
yellow or cream-colored with a more or less orange base, 1 or 2 
inches long: filaments slender: stigmas at length spreading: ovary 
and capsule (an inch long or more) narrowly oblong. — Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. t. 1786; Regel, Gartenfl. 1876, t. 874, f. 6; Baker, 1. ¢. 297. 
Oregon and Washington Territory. The following varieties need 
farther investigation. 
