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4. Trillium grandiflorum (Michx.) Salisb. Large-flowered Wake-robin. 
(Fig. 1046.) 
Trillium rhomboideum var. grandifiorum Michx. FI. 
Bor. Am. 1: 216. 1803. 
Trillium grandifiorum Salisb. Par. Lond. 1: p/. 7. 1805. 
Stems usually stout, 8’-18’ high. Leaves broadly 
rhombic-ovate or rhombic-oval, 214’-6’ long, acumin- 
ate at the apex, narrowed to the sessile or nearly ses- 
sile base; peduncle erect or somewhat inclined, 114/— 
3/ long; sepals lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acu- 
minate but sometimes bluntish, 1/—2’ long, spreading; 
petals erect-spreading, oblanceolate; obovate or rarely 
oyate-oblong, obtuse or cuspidate, strongly veined, 
white or pink, thin, longer than the sepals; anthers 
about 1%’ long, longer than the filaments; styles 
slender, 3’’—4’’ long, ascending orerect; berry globose, 
black, slightly 6-lobed, 8’’/-12’’ in diameter. 
In woods, Quebec to Ontario and Minnesota, south to 
Florida and Missouri. Ascends to 5000 ft. in Virginia. 
May-June. 
A monstrous form, with two long-petioled leaves, was 
collected by Dr. Pitcher in Michigan. 
5. Trillium eréctum I. Ill-scented 
Wake-robin. (Fig. 1047.) 
Trillium erectum ¥,. Sp. Pl. 340. 1753. 
Stem stout, 8’/-16’ high. Leaves very broadly 
rhombic, 3-7’ long, often as wide or wider, sessile, 
acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base; pe- 
duncle 1% ’—4/ long, erect, inclined or declined be- 
neath the leaves; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, 
spreading, %/-14’ 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; styles 
short, spreading or recurved; berry ovoid some- 
what 6-lobed, reddish, 8//-12’/ long. 
In woods, Nova Scotia to James Bay and Manitoba, 
south to North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri. As- 
cends to 3000 ft. in Virginia. Alsoin Japan. Flowers 
unpleasantly scented. April-June. 
6. Trillium cérnuum J|,. Nodding 
Wake-robin. (Fig. 1048.) 
Trillium cernuum I,. Sp. Pl. 339. 1753. 
Stem usually slender, 8/-20’ high. Leaves simi- 
lar to those of the preceding species, broadly 
rhombic, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the 
base, sessile, or with the petioles 1//-2’’ long; pe- 
duncle %4/-114’ long, recurved beneath the leaves, 
the flower drooping: sepals lanceolate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, 6’’—12’’ long; petals white or 
pink, oyate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, rolled 
backward, wavy-margined, equalling the sepals, or 
a little longer; anthers about as long as the sub- 
ulate filaments; styles rather stout, recurved; berry 
ovoid, red-purple, pendulous, 8/10’ long. 
In rich woods, Nova Scotia to Ontario and Minne- 
sota, south to Georgia and Missouri. Sometimes con- 
founded with forms of the preceding. April-June. 
