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tween it and the bases or apparent insertion of the pair of leaves: 
this lateral offshoot grows downward, sometimes lengthening as 
in the foregoing species, sometimes remaining short, and its apex 
dilates into the new bulb. 
This peculiarity was noticed by Mrs. Hedges, the discoverer of 
this interesting plant, to whom great credit is due. Most lady 
botanists are content with what appears above the surface ; but 
she went to the root of the matter at once. I learn that E. albi- 
dum abounds in the same locality. E. Americanum is also found 
in the region, but is scarce. 
It is not easy to find or frame a specific name which will clearly 
express the most remarkable characteristic of this new species. 
But I will venture to name it 
ERYTHRONIUM PROPULLANS.—E. s scapo infra rms eos ama foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis parum culatis ; neers lio r 0-purpureo (semipollicari), seg- 
mentis acutis basi luteo tinctis omnino ap fai porai eg nec sulcatis); 
antheris es as ; nie fere equabili ai, stigmate parvo vix tridentato; 
ovulis in loculi 
Scape bulbiferous from its sheathed portion below the developed leaves; these 
chong lanceolate, acuminate, slightly mottled; perianth rose- -purple or pink (half an 
inch long); the segments ac ute, all with a yellow spot but plane at the base, the inner 
like ba ala gf eo of either groove or Rag -like appenda — i a little more 
narrowed at base; anthers merely oblong; tyle hardly at all narrowed downward, 
entire, the small stigma even barely three- fest ovules few 8) ik in each cell. 
EXPLANATION oF Figure 74. 
a. Flowering plant, just producing offset from the side of the slender stem 0 
3. gar mach of a small plant out of flower, with slender, ania offset Sisi at 
apex in ulb. 
é tive part of a larger plant, with bulb formed without elongation of stalk. 
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