GENUS 2. 



WAKE-ROBIN FAMILY. 



5. Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb. 

 Large-flowered Wake-robin. Fig. 1303. 



Trillium rhomboideum var. grandiflorum Michx. Fl. Bor. 



Am. i : 216. 1803. 

 Trillium grandiflorum Salisb. Par. Lond. i : pi. i. 1805. 



Stems usually stout, 8'-i8' high. Leaves broadly 

 rhombic-ovate or rhombic-oval, 22 '-6' long, acuminate 

 at the apex, narrowed to the sessile or nearly sessile 

 base; peduncle erect or somewhat inclined, ii'~3' long; 

 sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate but 

 sometimes bluntish, \'-2 long, spreading; petals erect- 

 spreading, oblanceolate ; obovate or rarely ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse or cuspidate, strongly veined, white or pink, thin, 

 longer than the sepals ; anthers about long, longer 

 than the filaments ; styles slender, 3 "-4" long, ascend- 

 ing or erect ; berry globose, black, slightly 6-lobed, 8"- 

 12" in diameter. 



In woods, Quebec to Ontario and Minnesota, south to 

 North Carolina and Missouri. Reported from farther south. 

 Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. White lilies. Bath-flower. 

 Trinity-lily. May-June. 



A monstrous form, with two long-petioled leaves, was collected by Dr. Pitcher in Michigan. 



6. Trillium erectum L. Ill-scented Wake- 

 robin. Birth-root. Fig. 1304. 



Trillium erectum L. Sp. PI. 340. 1753. 



Stem stout, 8'-i6' high. Leaves very broadly 

 rhombic, 3 '-7' long, often as wide or wider, sessile, 

 acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base ; 

 peduncle il'-4' long, erect, or nearly so; sepals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, i'-ii' long; petals 

 lanceolate or ovate, acute or acutish, spreading, 

 equalling the sepals or a little longer, dark purple, 

 pink, greenish or white; anthers longer than the 

 filaments, sometimes twice as long, exceeding the 

 stigmas; ovary purple; styles short, spreading or 

 recurved; berry ovoid, somewhat 6-lobed, reddish, 

 8"-i2" long. 



In woods, Nova Scotia to Ontario, south to North 

 Carolina and Tennessee. Flowers unpleasantly scented. 

 Indian balm. Red or purple trillium, or wake-robin. 

 Bath-, Beth- or Squaw-flower. Beth- or bumble-bee- 

 root. Lamb's-quarters. Nosebleed. Daffy-down-dilly. 

 Red benjamin. Shamrock. True-love. Orange-blossom. 

 April-June. 



7. Trillium declinatum (A. Gray) Glea- 

 son. Drooping Wake-robin. Fig. 1305. 



T. erectum var. declinatum A. Gray, Man. Ed. 5, 

 523- 1878. 



T. declinatum Gleason, Bull. Torr. Club 33 : 389. 

 1906. 



Stem stout, ii high or less. Leaves broadly 

 rhombic, 3 '-5' long and about as wide as long, 

 short-acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the 

 base; peduncle horizontal or declined, \\'-2\' 

 long ; petals oblong-ovate, white, about as long 

 as the sepals; filaments i"-2.\" long, not more 

 than half as long as the anthers; ovary white 

 or pinkish ; stigmas nearly sessile. 



Woods, Ohio to Michigan, Minnesota and Mis- 

 souri. April-June. 



