Double-barreled message to alpine-l and pbs list. Plate 55 in "Bulbs of North America" purports to show a specimen of Erythronium revolutum with mottled leaves. Indeed, there are flowers that look like E. revolutum in the middle background, and leaves with prominent mottling in the foreground. The fly in the ointment is that those foreground leaves aren't from the same plant as the flower scape. The foreground leaves are almost certainly a form of E. dens-canis -- the manner of mottling and the shape of the leaves are characteristic of that species. The photo does show leaves in the middle background that probably are those of E. revolutum, and there is some mottling visible on them. Again, the leaf shape and style of that mottling are diagnostic of a west-coast species rather than E. dens-canis. The photo is attributed to Molly Grothaus, who has been dead for some years; was it published after her death? The risk is that unless a reader has more than passing familiarity with Erythronium foliage, he or she may very well start identifying pink forms of E. dens-canis as E. revolutum "because the leaves are the same as the picture in the book." This is a mistake I have seen before under other circumstances, and can endlessly confuse novices. I suggest that those possessing this interesting and extremely valuable book make an annotation next to plate 55 warning of the mixup. Footnote: while I refer to E. dens-canis, the interloper could be one of the erythronium species from eastern North America, which have very similar foliage. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Maritime Zone 8, a cool Mediterranean climate on beautiful Vancouver Island