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as broad, the three main veins well-marked on the under face. 

 Peduncle 4-6 cm. long. Sepals 18-22 mm. long by 8-10 mm. 

 broad ; petals about as long as the sepals, but twice as broad, 

 colourless in the dried specimen ; filaments 2-5 mm. ; anthers 

 8 mm. long, deep purple ; ovary and stigmas deep purple, the 

 former 5 mm. long, the latter 4 mm. 



A distinct-looking plant, near T. cernuum and T. erectum. It is 

 distinguished from the former by its large broadly rhomboid leaves, 

 proportionately small flowers with almost rounded petals, and 

 anthers exceeding the short recurved stigmas ; and from the 

 latter, to which it is perhaps more nearly allied, from the shape of 

 its leaves and characters of stamens and pistil, it differs in its 

 nodding flowers and subrotund petals. 



Hab. On the mountains at Broad River, North Carolina ; 

 Piitgel, March, 1841. Specimens in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



13. T. CERNUUM L. Sp. PI. 339 (1753). Trillium flore pedun- 

 culate cernuo. With the following citations : — 



Paris foliis ternis, fiore pedunculato nutante. Cold, noveh. 81. 



Solanum triphyllum, flore hexapetalo carneo. Catesh. carol, 

 i. p. 45. 



Habitat in Carolina. 



The plant in Linnreus's herbarium was received from Kalm. 

 It has very shortly-stalked rhombic-ovate shortly acuminate leaves 

 8-8*5 cm. long by 6-6-5 cm. broad, and a strongly recurved flower 

 with lanceolate acute sepals barely 2 cm. long by -6 cm. broad, 

 colourless petals slightly longer and about as broad, and stamens 

 with linear oblong anthers shorter than the three distinct thick 

 spreading stigmas. 



We have in the Department of Botany a very similar specimen 

 received from Chelsea Garden in 1758, and also several plants in 

 herb. Miller closely agreeing with the Linnean specimen. The 

 latter are authentic for the Dictionary of Gardening, where (ed. viii. 

 1768) Miller says his plants of T. cernuum were sent him from 

 Philadelphia by Dr. Bensel, who found it growing in plenty there. 

 He also says the petals are whitish green on the outside and purple 

 within ; no trace of colour is left in the petals of the specimen, but 

 the anthers are still reddish. We have also a specimen from John 

 Bartram, and numerous other specimens from Canada and the 

 North Atlantic States. 



Pursh's idea of T. cernuum was similar, judging from plants 

 from his herbarium which I saw in Herb. Kew. 



As regards the two citations which Linuaeus adds to his brief 

 diagnosis, the first refers to the list of plants observed in the 

 province of New York in 1742 by Cadwallader Colden, described 

 by himself and sent to Gronovius and by him to Linnaeus, who 

 obtained the author's permission to publish the descriptions (Act. 

 Upsal. 1743, 81). I have not seen Colden's specimen ; he describes 

 the flower as " rubro-purpureus." 



The second citation, that to Catesby's Carolina, i. 45, refers to 

 the next species, T. Cateshmi Ell. Bot. S. Carol, i. 429. 



Note. — T. erectum var. declinatum A. Gray, Bot. North U. S. 



