( 3097 ) 



Trillium discolor. Green-flowered 

 Trillium. 



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Class and Order. 

 Hexandria Trigynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Smilace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala, patens. Filamenta gla- 

 bra. Antherce longitudiualiter adnata?. Stigmata linearia, 

 sessilia, reflexa. Bacca trilocularis, polysperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Trillium discolor ; flore sessili erecto, petalis obovatis 

 obtusis obtuse mucronulatis inferne attenuatis calyce 

 dimidio longioribus, foliis sessilibus lato-ovalibus 

 acutis. 



Trillium discolor. Wray, in litt. 



Descr. Stem nearly a span high, erect, flexuose, of the 

 thickness of a goose-quill, glossy, dark purple, green above, 

 where, at the very extremity, it bears a whorl of three large, 

 broadly oval, quite sessile, acute, spreading leaves, per- 

 fectly glabrous, dark green and obscurely blotched above, 

 paler beneath, with five wavy ribs, which are connected by 

 oblique nerves. Flower solitary, large, sessile in the centre 

 of the three leaves, and at the summit of the stem. Calyx 

 of three large, green, spreading sepals, oval-oblong, acute. 

 Petals three, erect, half as long again as the calyx, obo- 

 y ate, very obtuse, with a short blunt mucro, of a pale 

 sulphur-yellow inclining to green, tapering below into a 

 broad and pale green claw. Stamens six, about one-third 

 the length of the petals, erect : Filaments very short, pur- 

 ple. Anthers linear, dull purple, acute, and a little incurved 

 at the extremity, the cells lateral, longitudinal, yellow. 



Pistil : 



