ERANTHIS 



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ERANTHIS 



stove and greenhouse perennials be- 

 longing to this genus, but the only 

 one having tuberculous roots is 



B. tuberculatum. This species 

 was introduced from New Caledonia 

 about 1863. It is a beautiful bushy 

 plant with slender stems, small, oval, 

 opposite leaves, and pure white 

 flowers about 3 ins. across. The 

 corolla is five-lobed, with a long tube. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 5405.) 



This species flourishes in a stove 

 house in a compost of sandy loam and 

 leaf-soil. It likes plenty of water 

 when in full growth, and frequent 

 syringings or sprinklings overhead 

 before the flowers appear in summer. 

 It is easily propagated by cuttings of 

 the young half-ripened shoots a 

 couple of inches long, inserted in 

 sandy soil in a close frame or under 

 a bell-glass, and kept shaded from 

 strong sunshine till established. 



ERANTHIS (er, spring ; anthos, a 

 flower ; referring to its early flower- 

 ing), WINTEK ACONITE. Nat. Ord. 

 Eanunculaceae. A small genus of 

 dwarf - growing perennials having 

 tuberous roots, palmately cut leaves, 

 and solitary yellow flowers, composed 

 of five to eight petal-like sepals. 

 The real petals are small, each with a 

 claw. The stamens and carpels are 

 numerous. 



E. hyeinalis. This is the best 

 known of the Winter Aconites. It 



irregular tubers, about the size of a 

 small filbert, send up roundish leaves 



Kio. 124. Eranthis hyemalit. 



Fio. 123. Eranthis hyemalis, tubers. 



is a native of W. Europe, and grows which are deeply and irregularly 

 only a few inches high. The blackish lobed. The bright glistening yellow 



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