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Trillium sessile. Sessile r I rillium. 
-*jt fir fifi fi- 
Clafs and Order. 
IIeXANDRIA TrIGYNI A. 
Generic Character. 
Ci!. 3-phyllus* Cor. 3-petala. Bacca 3-locularis. 
Specific Char after and Synonyms. 
TRILLIUM florc fefTili credo. Lin. Syfi. Vegetal, p. 349. 
PARIS foliis ternatis, (lore feflili cre&o. Gron. virg. 44. 
SOLANUM triphyllmn. Pluk. atm. 352. t. 111 .f. 6. Catejh. 
car. t. 30* 
Of this genus there are three fpecies, all of which are na- 
tives of North- America, and deferibed by Miller, in his 
Gardener s Di ft ionary t where the genus is called American Herb 
Paris ; but as the Paris and Trillium, though fomewhat fimilar 
in the flyle of their foliage, are very different in their parts 
of frudiheation, we have thought it moil expedient to angli- 
cife Trillium , it being to the full as eafily pronounced as 
Geranium , and many other Latin names now familiar to the 
Lnglifh ear. 
This fpecies takes it trivial name of fefiile , from the flowers 
having no footllalk, but fitting as it were immediately on the 
end ot, the ftalk. 
The figure here exhibited was taken from a plant which 
flowered in my garden lad fpring, from roots fent me the pre- 
ceding autumn, by Mr. Robert Squibh, Gardener, of 
Lharlcfton, South-Carolina, who is not only well verfed in 
plants, but indefatigable in difeovering and collecting the 
more rare fpecies of that country, and with which the gardens 
ot this arc likely foon to be enriched. 
It grows in fhady flotations, in a light foil, and requires 
the fame treatment as the Doiiecatbcon and round -leav’d Cyclamen * 
\\ e have not yet had a fair opportunity of obferving whether 
this fpecies ripens its feeds with us: though of as long (land- 
ing in this country as the Dodecatbecn , it is far Id's common; 
hence one is led to conclude that it is either not fo readily 
propagated, or more eafily deftroved. 
