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HAB. Woods and meadows. Can. to Car. July, Aug. If. 

 Stem 18 inches high. Flowers large, dark orange, spotted at 

 base. 



3. L. canadensc Linn. : leaves remotely whorled, lanceolate, 3-nerv- 

 ed ; nerves hairy beneath ; peduncles terminal, long, generally by 

 threes ; flowers nodding ; perianth turbinate, campanulate, slightly 

 revolute; segments lanceolate. 



HAB. Wet meadows. Can. to Car. W. to Miss. July, Aug. 

 14-- Stem 2 3 feet high. Flowers yellow, spotted on the in- 

 side. Common Yellow Lily, 



4. L. superbum Linn. : leaves whorled, linear-lanceolate, 3-nerved, 

 smooth, the upper ones scattered ; flowers in a pyramidal raceme, re- 

 flexed ; segments revolute. 



HAB. Wet meadows. Can. to Car. July, H' Stem 4 -6 feet 

 high. Flowers 3 20 or more in a large pyramidal raceme, 

 orange, with dark spots. Is not this a mere luxuriant variety 

 of the last 1 Superb Lily. 



2. ERYTHRONIUM. Lmn. 



Perianth campanulate, 6-parted ; segments reflexed ; the 

 3 inner ones with a callous tooth on each side near the base, 

 and a nectariferous pore. Stamens 6. Capsule substipitate. 

 Seeds ovate. Hexandria. Monogynia. 



1. E. americanum Smith: leaves lanceolate, punctate; segments of 

 the perianth oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at the point ; inner ones biden- 

 tate near the base ; style clavate ; stigma entire. E. lanceolatum 

 Pursh. E. dens canis Mich. 



HAB. Wet meadows. Can. to Geor. April, May. If. Scape 

 6 8 inches high. Leaves 2, radical. Flower solitary, terminal, 

 yellow. Dogtpothed Violet. 



2. E. albidum Nutt. : leaves elliptical-lanceolate, not punctate ; seg- 

 ments of the perianth linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; inner ones without 

 dentures, subunguiculate ; style filiform ; stigma 3-eleft ; lobe re- 

 flexed. 



HAB. Wet meadows. Can. and N. Y. W. to Miss. April, 

 May. 11. Scape 6 inches high. Flower white, segments 

 thick and somewhat obtuse. Very abundant near Albany, N. 

 Y., and also found in Canada by D. Thomas, Esq. I have ob- 

 served a plant at New-Brunswick, N. J. which agrees with this 

 in the absence of dentures and in the trifid stigma, but the pe- 

 rianth is yellow. It is probably the same which is alluded to 

 by Mr. Nuttall, (Gen. PL i. 223, ) and may prove distinct. 



White Erytiuronium. 



3. E. bracteatum Big: : leaves lanceolate, unequal ; scape bracted. 

 HAB. High mountains. Ver. June. 1. Leaves very unequal, 



one being two or three times as large as the other. Scape short- 

 er than the leaves, with a narrow lanceolate bract 1 2 inches 

 below the flower, which is yellow, half as large as in No. 1 ; the 

 segments gibbous at base. 



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