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the ground in clusters until rains or other agencies cover them 
with soil and also distribute t 
In digging for the blooming ‘pai one finds a number of brit- 
tle white runners in the soil. One end of these is attached to, or 
a bulb, the runner and the old bulb shrivel and dry up, and the 
new bulb begins its independent existence 
There are usually three such bulbs produced by each imma- 
ture bulb, while the mature bulbs are blooming and Tipening 
about three fold each year. But as the new bulbs are usually 
formed a little lower than their parents, they finally reach the 
depth which is characteristic of mature plants. When this depth 
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seven years before any flower appears from the bulb produced 
through several generations of runners from a given seed. 
The activity of Erythronium is aan confined to the 
eight or ten weeks between its first appearance and the ripening 
of its seeds ; but actually it continues through nearly the whole 
twelve months. The new bulb for next year is full grown very 
