GREAT WHITE TRILLIUM 



inches wide, sessile, in a whorl of three at the summit of 

 the stem. 



Flower. — White, terminal on a pedicel erect or ascend- 

 ing, two and a half to four inches across. 



Calyx. — Sepals three, lanceolate, spreading, persistent. 



Corolla. — Petals three, obovate or oblanccolatc, white, 

 larger than the sepals, withering, often turning pink with 

 age; margins slightly ruffled. 



Stamens. — Six, borne around the pistil; filaments short; 

 anthers linear, yellow, the cells opening down the margins. 



Pistil. — One; ovary three-celled; with three slender 

 styles, stigmatic down the inner side. 



Fruit. — Globose berry, black, six-angled, three-celled, 

 many-seeded. 



Pollinated by flies, bees, and butterflies. 



The Great White Trillium may be considered the 

 favorite wild flower of northern Ohio. For many 

 persons no other wfld flower exists, and this appears 

 so abundantly, grows so luxuriantly, lasts so long, and 

 is so beautiful that it fully justifies the high esteem in 

 which it is held. In open untouched woods its white 

 lilies light up acre upon acre during the pleasant days 

 of May. 



Looking straight into the flower one sees a sLx- 

 pointed star, three pointed green sepals, and three 

 pointed white petals with slightly ruffled edges. The 

 flower-stem wishes to bend a little. 



Where the plant grows by the acre it matters little 

 how many are picked, but every lover of Trflliums 

 ought to know the conditions of Trillium Hfe. 



In the first place, each plant has one large, vertical, 

 tuberous rootstock w^ith a few fibrous roots. In this 

 rootstock is stored the food that will sustain the next 



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