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Trillium Cernuum. Nodding-Floweree 



Trillium. 



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CAi/jr dff^ Order. 

 Hexandria Trygynia. 



Generic Character. — Fid. N ua ' 470. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



TRILLIUM cernunm flore pedunculato, ccrnuo. Linn. Sp. 

 PL 484. Hort. Kcw. 1. 490. Mill. Did. 1. 

 'Smith Spicil. t. 4. Michaux Flor. Bor-Amer. 1. 



SOLANUM triphylhim, flore hexapetalo cameo. Cat. Car. 1, 



p 45* ft 45» 



ARIS foliis ternis, flore pedunculato nutante. Cold. Noveb. 

 1. 45. 



After the detailed defcripiion in Dr. Smith's Spicu. e- 

 c ium, we need not make any addition in this place, except 

 J, 1 " e to remark, that a perfect trilocular fruit, fuch as rcpre- 

 € nted in his figure, is in this genus at lead dubious. The 

 re ceptacle of the feeds is in this fpecies formed by a projection 

 going off from the middle of three of the fides, but terminating 

 ^' u h a thickened extremity before it reaches the centre of the fruit, 

 ^fuchaconftruction, ofcourfe, the fhrinking of the receptacles 

 °* tn e feeds may occafion what appears to be a three-celled 

 ovary to become one-celled in the ripe fruit. Moreover a 

 ^jjerence in the length of the receptacle of the feeds in the 

 Afferent fpecies of the fame genus, extending in one nearly or 

 S^te to the centre of the fruit, in another lei's than half-way 



towards 



