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Ukiah
Erythronium - E. [Erythronium] purpurascens, Leaves not mottled, undulate-margined, of dark metallic green. Flowers very small, light yellow, tinged purple after a few days; higher Sierras, California Filaments filiform, Sierra Nevada, 4000 ft up, Plumas to Placer Cos. 1 to 8 fls. crowded on a raceme. - E. [Erythronium] hartwegii. Corms forming offsets freely at the end of filiform [fils] from their base. Sierra Nevada foorhills, Tehama to Amador. Leaves richly mottled; inner petals auricled; style deeply divided after a few days if not on first opening; fls. [flowers] in a sessile umbel and appearing as if each fl. [flower] arose from a scape of its own. Pets. [petals] white or cream with orange or yellow
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Mar. 25, 1910.
base. Leaves obovate-lanceolate with broadly margined petiole. - E. [Erythronium] californicum, Bulbs slender, not producing offsets; filaments filiform; style clavate deeply trifid; creamy white flowers; coast ranges of north-western Cal. [California] Leaves richly mottled; pets. [petals] auricled; style-divisions spreading widely in full anthesis. Stem 1 - 16 flowered. Pets. [Petals] with orange base and often with orange band crossing pets. [petals] above auricles. - E. [Erythronium] revolutum. Mendecino _ Humboldt Cos. in Redwood reg. [region] 10 - 15 miles from coast, 1000 miles long - 4 miles wide; fls. [flowers] in Mendoc. [Mendocino] white to purplish pink, often pink in Humboldt, deep rose in northern Oregon. Fls. _flowers] always opening white or
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