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Trillium Erythrocarpum. Funnel- 

 Flowered Trillium. 



C/d/jr <z#^ Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Characler. — Fid. N ttm - 470. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TRILLIUM erythrocarpum foliis fubrhombeo-ovatis, bafi at- 

 tenuatis, furfum acuminatis ; flore ere£tiufculo ; 

 petalis unguiculatis, fubcontorto-conduplicanti- 

 bus, deorfum fubcylindrice convergentibus, la- 

 minis ovatis, patentibus. G. 



TRILLIUM erythrocarpum foliis bafi rotundatis, fubcordatis, 

 abrupte fubpetiolatis : flore erecliufculo : laci- 

 niis petaloideis fubduplis, ovali-lanceolatis, re- 

 curvatis, albis, inferne purpurafcentibus : bacca 

 oblonga, coccinea. Michaux Bor-Amer. 1. 216. 



TRILLIUM grandiflorum. Parad. Lond. Tab. 1. exclufo fy- 

 nonymo. 



A native of the higher mountains of North-Carolina, and, 

 according to Michaux, of Hudfon's-Bay ; others have found 

 it in Canada. The Bankfian Herbarium contains a native, as 

 well as an imported cultivated fpecimen from the Kew Gardens, 

 where it was moft probably introduced by Mr. Masson. 

 The fame collection contains a fpecies from Kamfchatka, 

 exceedingly like this, but differing in having oblong petals 

 without ungues ; the flower of this alfo is white : it may be 

 named Trillium camfcbatcenfe ,• feems to be a much larger 

 plant than the American. 



Our prefent fpecies is named by Michaux erythrocarpum 

 from the fcarlet berry, fince thofe of the others are black ; 

 but we have fome doubts whether it be not the fame plant with 



what 



