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Vol. 1. No. 6.) BULLETIN OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB, [New York, June, 1870, 
47, Monstrosities of Trillium grandifloram— the prevailing Trillium 
here—are occasionally met with in this vicinity, and brief mention 
of the extent of the variation may not be uninteresting for com- 
parison with similar accounts from other localities. The forms 
found here have petals more or less turned to green, with long pe- 
tioled smaller leaves, borne lower down on the stem ; or with stem 
leavesentirely wanting, and a single radical leaf instead. The Calyx 
of the leafless stemed form appears larger and more leafy. 
_Hepatica triloba and Solea concolor, mentioned by Mr. Hall in Nos. 
2 and 3 of the Bulletin, grow here. E. L. Hankensen. 
Newark, Wayne, Co., N. Y. 
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48. Trillium ereetum, L., Var. album, Pursh.—From observations 
made in my pretty extensive tramps in the woods of Central and 
Western New York, where 7. erectum and T. grandiflorum, Salisb. 
are exceedingly abundant, Iam inclined to think that the Var. album 
is only an accidental thing. The parts of the Trillium plants that 
appear above ground so entirely disappear in summer, that we can- 
not keep a perfectly strict watch of the same root without digging 
it up; but I have watched individual plants of this variety as closely 
as possible, and seen the regular purple flower in their place the 
next year; and have also seen the Var. album fiower in places where 
the year before a purple flower had appeared. I have noticed, too; 
that, as a rule, the Var. album is a starveling; rarely as large or as 
healthy as the purple plants in the midst of which it grows. 
Also, I have rarely found a Var. album away from the company of 
the normal plant, and never more than three or four plants together, 
though they are quite common. As to the color of the petals, I 
have seen them of all shades, from creamy yellow, or greenish white, 
to the normal purple; sometimes with a blush of purple in the cen- 
tral part of the petal; sometimes with faint streaky tinges of purple 
lengthwise of the petal, though not at all like 7: erythrocarpum, 
Michx. It has also, less scent. My strong impression is that it is 
Simply an unhealthy state of the T. erectum. 
I do not know whether I have ever seen Gray’s Var. declinatum 
but in the woods of Central New York one may often see myriads 
of the 7. erectum, with the peduncles all bent down, so that the 
ower is under the leaves; as completely deflexed as that of 7. cer- 
nuum, L., but not otherwise like it. I have sometimes walked for 
a whole day, and scarcely seen a plant whose flower was not thus 
deflexed; at other times, and in other places, I have noticed these 
in the company of, and mingled with, erect ones. The peduncle is 
deflexed, vith a sharp angular bend, just above the leaves, and not 
Y any curving or drooping. I have never met with the petals 
“white” or “pink,” as in Gray’s description, but have seen them 
of the Var. album sort, now and then. Gray’s description of T. 
erectum, L., in Manual, p. 523, speaks of the peduncle as “usually 
rather inclined than 
cover the entirely deflexed state, I do not know. : 
‘Trillium grandiflorum takes very well to cultivation, increases 
and thrives in gardens, and is worth introducing. T. erectum 
erect ”; but whether that phrase is intended to 
