[Sidenote: =Avalanche Lily
Dog-tooth Violet=
_Erythrònium montànum_
=White
Summer
Northwest=]
An exquisite kind, peculiarly graceful in form, with from one to nine,
pure-white flowers, nearly three inches across, each petal prettily
ornamented at the base with some orange-colored markings, arranged in
a symmetrical scalloped pattern. The anthers are orange-yellow, the
pistil white, the buds are pinkish and the leaves are very bright green
and not mottled. This is very common around Mt. Rainier.
[Sidenote: =Glacier Lily
Dog-tooth Violet=
_Erythrònium parviflòrum_
=Yellow
Summer
Northwest=]
A lovely flower, much like _E. grandiflorum_, but the anthers are white
or pale yellow. Around Mt. Rainier these beautiful plants often grow in
large patches at the edge of the snow, alongside of the Avalanche Lily,
_E. montanum_, but the two kinds do not seem to mingle.
[Sidenote: =Easter Bells
Dog-tooth Violet=
_Erythrònium grandiflòrum_
=Yellow
Spring, summer
Northwest and Utah=]
One of the loveliest of a charming group, growing in rich northern
woods. The delicately-scented flowers, from one to six on a stalk, are
about two inches across, clear yellow shading to white at the base,
with purplish-red anthers, turning brown. A patch of these flowers
bordering the edge of a glacier, as if planted in a garden-bed,
is a sight never to be forgotten. Pushing their bright leaves right
through the snow they gayly swing their golden censers in the face
of winter and seem the very incarnation of spring. There are several
similar kinds. In the Utah canyons these flowers in early spring are a
wonderful sight, covering the wooded slopes with sheets of gold, and
they seem to me to be the largest and handsomest of their clan, growing
at an altitude of six thousand to eleven thousand five hundred feet,
and blooming from March to July according to height. Easter Bells is a
Utah name.
[Illustration: Dogtooth Viole--Erythronium grandiflorum.]
[Illustration: Avalanche Lily--Erythronium montanum.