112 FLORA OF THE UPPER SUSQUEHANNA. 



L. Canadense L. Canada Lily. Meadow Lily. Wild Yellow 

 Lily. \'ery common in meadows and on ihe borders of streams. 

 Flowers drooping, yellow or orange, spotted with brown; seg- 

 ments not revolute. July. 



All our lilies do well in cultivation, and of ten reach a greater 



size than in the wild state. 



MEDEOLA L. 

 M. Virginiana L. Indian Clx-umber-root. Common in moist, 

 rich woods. Stems a foot or more high, the sterile with a whorl 

 of oblanceolate leaves at the top, the fertile with a second 

 smaller whorl above the other, from the center of which depend 

 several greenish-yellow flowers with revolute segments; berries 

 dark red. The rootstock is tapering, white, crisp, edible, and 

 has the taste of cucumbers. May, June. 



TRILLIUM L. 

 T. erectum L. Red Trillium. Wake Robin. Birth-root. 

 Common in damp woods and thickets. Leaves three, rhom- 

 boidal, sessile, in a whorl at the top of the stem; flowers single, 

 the three outer segments green, the inner dull purple, deflexed 

 beneath the leaves, ill -scented. An albino form of this, with 

 flowers cream-colored, is the so-called variety alba. May. 



T. grandiflorum (Michx.) SaHsb. White Trillium. Wake 

 Robin, White Lily. Common in woods and thickets. Re- 

 sembles the preceding. Flower large, erect, the inner segments 

 pure white, turning pink with age. Easy of cultivation. May. 



T. undulatum Willd. Painted Trillium. Smiling Wake Robin. 

 Tolerably common in wet woodlands, borders of swamps, and 

 knolls in wet pastures. Leaves petiolate ; inner segments of the 

 erect flower spreading, wavy-edged, white striped with purple 

 toward the base. May. ( T. erythrocarpiim Michx.) 



CHAM.^LIRIUM Willd. 

 C. luteum (L.) A.Gray. Blazing Star. Devil's Bit. Not 

 common. Not noted in the upper Chenango valley, Coville. 

 Found on dryish hillsides, usually in partial shade. Leaves 

 lanceolate ; staminate and pistillate flowers white, on separate 

 plants, in long, wand-like, spiked racemes. June. ( C. Carolin- 

 ianiDH Willd.) 



