ERANTHIS — ER1N0SMA. 



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E. hyemalis. — The only cultivated species. It 

 has a pretty little yellow flower, valuable for its early 

 blooming, and contrasting well with the Snowdrop, its 

 only companion in earliness, excepting, possibly, the 

 Soilla silerica, which appears before the others are 

 entirely passed. The yellow, white and blue flowers of 



ERAKTHIS HYEMALIS. 



the three genera, all delicate and low growing, form, 

 when planted in close contact, in early spring a cheering 

 mass of bloom. The Er an this grows about three inches 

 high, producing solitary terminal flowers. The tubers 

 soon lose their vitality when out of the ground ; they 

 increase rapidly, and require but little attention after 

 once planting. 



EKINOSMA. 



See Leucoium. 



