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_ TriILLiuM Erectum. UpricuT TRILLIUM. 
Jedi eb eb ik 
_ Clafs and Order. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA, 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor, -3-petala. Bacea tiloculati, 
Specific Charaéler and. — 
3 ed. 14. Murr. p. 349. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. p. 484. — 
: - SOLANUM triphyllon brafilianum. Baub. Pin. se 
~ SOLANUM triphyllum canadenfe. Corz, Can. 166. t. 167. - 
See congener triphyllum cangdenie. Mor, yf ae 3: ?- 
632+ fe 13. 4. a J 73 
Of this genus only Secs fpecies have as act ten intros 
duced into our gardens, viz. /effile, cernuum, and ere@um, all — 
natives of North-America, all colle€ted by Mr. Mitrer, and 
- defcribed in his diétionary : they are rare plants in this 
country, and will continue to be fo, as they require much at- 
tention to their culture, and admit of but little increafe from — 
their roots; the Tr. fefile, already figured in the Magazine, 18 
the moft common, the cermuum next, and the prefent fpecies 
the moft rare, which, though not mentioned in the Hort, Kew. 
we have feen in the colleGtion at Kew. 
Cornutus gives a good figure of it, which is copied in 
Mortson. 
It is a hardy, perennial, herbaceous plant, growing to the 
height of about nine inches, producing its flowers in May 3 
it requires to be planted in a fhady and fomewhat moift fitua- 
tion, either in peat earth, bere light loam, or a mixture of 
The roots of thefe plants, ghich are of the tuberous kind, 
might no doubt be raifed with care from foreign feeds, but 
the procefs would be tedious, and the plants have pecs t fuf- 
ficient beauty to compenfate for the trouble. 
# TRILLIUM crelum flore peiiinculato erefto. Dat Sy Vege : 
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