MEB on REDDISH PURPLE 23 



When driving in early spring along a wooded 

 roadway, I have found great patches of this 

 curiously colored blossom growing near streams 

 or in swampy grounds. I. was quite content, 

 however, to admire them from a distance, object- 

 ing to the odor which a closer acquaintance 

 entails. 



This odor and the color of the flower serve 

 the plant a useful purpose in attracting the 

 flesh fly, which Clarence M. Weed says is the 

 most useful insect in disseminating the pollen 

 of this plant. The color of the flower resembles 

 that of raw meat, and the yellow specimens 

 which I saw were quite the color of fat beef. 

 This species grows as far west as Minnesota 

 and Missouri, and south to North Carolina. 



NODDING WAKE-ROBIN 

 Trillium cerauum Lily-of-the- Valley Family 



Fruit, — The reddish ovate berry is somewhat 

 six-angled, and is borne on a short inclined or 

 recurved stem. It is about three-quarters of 

 an inch lono;. 



Leaves. — The three leaves a-re sessile or nearly 

 so. They are very similar to Trillium erectum. 



