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charming variety. Accompanied as they are by difference in their 
flowering season, habit, and mottling ol leaves, a chaiming chain of 
variation is given, no links of which we would willingly lose. 
SECTION I.—STYLE THREE CLEFT. 
85. E. GRANDIFLORUM 
Leaves unmottled, 1-5-flowered, stem slender, petals recurved, 
flowers very bright yellow, anthers yellow—a buttercup is not 
brighter. The strain I now have is far better than the original. 
86. Var. ALBUM. 
Like the type, except the flowers are white, yellowish at center, 
and with a slight greenish caste. A very line species. 
E. NUTTALLIANUM. 
In no way differs from grandiflorum, except in having red 
anthers. 
87. E. REVOLUTUM. 
Leaves mottled in white and light brown, one to four, nearly 
always one or two flowers, stem stout, petals narrow and curved, 
st}de large and stout, filaments from subulate (awl-shaped) to 
deltoid (triangular); flowers opening from white flushed with 
pink, to pinkish-purple, becoming purple. Mr. Baker, the well- 
known authority, pronounces this the true revolutum; listed in 
1896 as “revolutum, large purple.” 
Var. BOLANDERII (E. Smithii). 
Differing from the the type in having white flowers, tardily 
becoming purple, and in being smaller. 
88. Var. JOHNSONII (E. Johnsonii). 
Very similar to the type, but leaves mottled in dark brown and 
looking as if coated in varnish, and flowers dark rose, with 
orange center. 
89. Var. PRABCOX. 
In this charming variety, which I have named Prmcox, the 
leaves are mottled in mahoganj'', the most beautifully in any 
Erythi onium, the flowers, usually two to four, are creamy white 
with orange center; I distributed a few of these in 1896 as 
E. eitrinum. 
90. Var. WATSONI. 
Differs in having a full creamy white flower, orange at center, 
and usually banded with brown above the base; in foggy weather 
the flower is bell-shaped. One of the finest of Erythroniums; 
leaves mottled in brown; this, according to Watson, is the 
typical form of the species, but according to Baker, it must be 
given a varietal rank. It was figured perfectly in plate 919 Horto 
Van 11 outteano, which is Krelages’ plate iooi A. Also called 
E. giganteum albiflorum, and E. grandiflorum albiflorum 
91. E. GIGANTEUM. 
