DOG TOOTH VIOLETS. 
Genus E R. Y TTI R O TV I TJ M Li: 
aens. 
These charming lily-like plants have two broad handsome leaves, grow- 
ing from the ground, which are usually richly colored and mottled, and in 
themselves very ornamental. The slender leafless stem bears lovely flow- 
ers, which are like small lilies, of exquisite coloring, and droop gracefully. 
They are perfectly hardy anywhere, and grow best in a cool, moist climate 
and a sheltered location. Their culture is easy, a well-drained loose soil, 
rich in mould, perfectly meeting their requirements, and they flower early 
when all' flowers are more appreciated. With so much of beauty, and so 
many excellent qualities, they cannot help becoming immensely popular. 
The European and Eastern American sorts are not to be compared with 
our large flowered sorts. All are beautiful, and cheap or dear every one will 
prove a delight. 
Our Pacific Coast Erythroniums are the finest known. All are large 
of flower except E. purpurascens, and differ but little in that respect. 
They differ much in time of flowering: E. Hartwegii is ve^ early; it is 
followed by E. revolutum pra?cox; then Hendersonii, grandiflorum (type), 
grandiflorum album, and purpurascens follow; the next in flower is revo- 
lutum Bqlanderii, followed quickly by revolutum Johnsonii; next comes 
giganteum and revolutum (type); revolutum Watsonii lingers after all the 
foregoing have gone, and montanum comes weeks later. The delicate 
shadings, from white to bright yellow, while very difficult to describe, are 
easily caught by the eye, and give a charming variety. Accompanied 
as they are by difference in their flowering season, habit, and mottling of 
leaves, a charming chain of variation is given, no links of which we would 
willingly lose. 
Section T. — Style Three Cleft. 
ERYTHRONfUM GRANDIFLORUM 
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Leaves un mottled, 1-5-flowered, stem slender, petals re- 
curved, flowers very bright yellow, anthers yellow; 1 dis- 
tributed this last year as Nuttallianum, and under that 
name it has been exhibited in London, and has been very 
greatly admired 
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Var. ALBUM. 
Like the type, except the flowers are white, yellowish at 
center, and with a slight greenish caste. I have distributed 
this for two years past as the type; a very fine species 
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ERYTHRONIUM NUTTALLIANUM 
In no way differs from grandiflorum, except in having 
red anthers; I have no bulbs of this. 
