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Park than on Morningside Heights, and it is for that reason that 
the Barnard and Columbia Trustees have arranged its removal as 
above described. 
N. L. Britron. 
THE ERYTHRONIUMS. 
Erythronium Americanum Ker. is one of our earliest spring 
flowers. The European species (&. Dens-cants) is known as the 
dog’s tooth violet, and this name has been somewhat inaptly 
applied to the genus for two hundred years. The genus is in- 
cluded in the lily family and it has been proposed that the name 
spring lily would be especially pees especially for the 
species most common in eastern America. 
About a dozen species of the genus are native to the Rocky 
with os a pale green mixed with the other two ace 
wo leaves are regularly present in the mature plants, but in 
immature ones only a single leaf is f leaves are 
inches deep. The flower is borne at the end of a slender pedicel 
s long. 
In central New Jersey Z. Americanum grows in beds of sev- 
ipen in Jun 
of the prostrate capsule, They are not scattered, but lie upon 
