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TRILLIUM ERVYTHROCARPUM. BLOOD-STAINED 
TRILLIUM. 
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Class and Order. ~ 
HexanpriA TRIGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Smuixacea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 3-phyllus. Cor. 3-petala, patens. Filamenta gla- 
bra. Anthere longitudinaliter adnate. Stigmata linearia, 
sessilia, reflexa. Bacca trilocularis, polysperma. — 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Tritium * erythrocarpum ; pedunculo cernuo, petalis ova- 
libus undulatis acutis (albis basi purpureis) calyce 
duplo longioribus, foliis cordato-ovatis subacuminatis 
petiolatis. 
Tritium erythrocarpum. Mich. Am. v. 1. p. 216. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 150. Sweet, Brit. Fl. Garden, 
t. 212 
Tritt pictum. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. v. 1. p. 2A4. 
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Descr. Whole plant quite glabrous. Root a thick, 
horizontal, oblong, fleshy, simple or divided tuber, throw- 
ing down a few radicles, and bearing above, oblong-ovate, 
rownish scales, from which the stalks emerge: these latter 
are about a finger’s length (scarcely a hand’s length) high, 
terete, simple, reddish below, having, at the extremity, 
, rather large, patent, to-< wate, shortly petiolate 
leaves, 
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weftom triliw, tri f the 
triliv, triple, from the ternate arrangement of the parts 0 
flower and leaves, | : 
