A hundred yards before us was Eagle Rapids-a forbidding patch of writhing, whitening water, pricked with the upward thrust of toothlike rocks.
"The River and I"
John G. Neihardt
Their faint fragrance rather suggests a tulip; and as for the bulb, which in some of the lily-kin has toothlike scales, it is in this case a smooth, egg-shaped corm, producing little round offsets from its base.
"Wild Flowers Worth Knowing"
Neltje Blanchan et al