144 CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



was placed by Aiton, though it difTers from the rest of the Dra- 

 caenas in some respects. It might with propriety form a new 

 genus. — Woods. — Gloucester — on the Wachusett, Monadnock 

 and White mountains. — June. — Perennial. 



158. ERYTHRONIUM. 

 Erythronkim Americanum. Common Erythronium. 



American Medical Botany, PI. Iviii. 



Scape naked, leaves lanceolate and involute at the 

 point; style club-shaped and undivided. 



Syn. Erythronium lanceolatum. Pursh. 



ERYTHRONItTM DeNSCANSIS. Mx. 



A delicate liliaceous plant with spotted leaves. The root is a 

 solid bulb, situated deep in the ground, brown outside, white and 

 homogenous within. The whole plant is smooth and glossy. 

 Scape naked, slender. Leaves two, nearly equal, lanceolate, 

 veinless, of a dark brownish green, clouded with irregular spots, 

 sheathing the scape with their base, and terminating in an ob- 

 tuse callous point. Flower solitary, drooping. Petals six, lan- 

 ceolate, yellow, the three outermost partly crimson on the out- 

 side, the three innermost having an obtuse tooth on each side 

 near the base. In a clear sun the petals are expanded and revo- 

 lute, but at night and on cloudy days they are nearly closed. 

 Filaments flat, anthers oblong-linear. Germ obovate, style 

 longer than the stamens, club-shaped, three lobed at top and 

 terminating in three distinct, but not detached stigmas. Cap- 

 sule oblong obovate, somewhat pedicelled. — In rich, moist soils, 

 South Boston, Cambridge. — May. — Perennial. 



*Erythkonium bracteatum. Bracied Erythronium. 



E. scapo hracteato ; foliis lanceolatis incequallbus. 



Scape bracted ; leaves lanceolate, unequal. 



Leaves very unequal, the primary one being two or three 

 times as large as the secondary. Scape shorter than the leaves 

 with a narrow lanceolate bracte about an inch long, situated an 

 inch or two below the flower. Corolla yellow, half as large as 

 in the preceding species, petals gibbous at base. Stamens half 

 as long as the corolla. Style clavate; stigmas united ? Discov- 



