468 THE TEITE-LOVE FAMILY. 



CL.— THE TRUE-LOVE FAMILY. TrillicicecB. 



Intermediate, like the Tamus family, between Exogens and 

 Endogens, having the netted-veined, though not articulated, leaves of 

 the former, and the flowers and embryo of the latter, and proximately 

 characterized by ,their simple and erect herbaceous stems, seldom 

 rising more than a foot above the gi'ound; and large, terminal, solitary 

 and bisexual flowers. The leaves are generally whorled, and the 

 flowers trimerous, consisting of distinct calyx and corolla, with six or 

 nine stamens. Occasionally the flowers are tetramerous and have 

 eight stamens. They grow in the thickets and woods of the temperate 

 parts of the northern hemisphere, and number about thirty species, 

 several of which, called Trillium, are not uncommon in good gardens. 

 One species gi'ows wild in England and near Manchester, — the cele- 

 brated plant commonly known by the name of " true-love," and one of 

 the most remarkable this country produces. The stem is nine or ten 

 inches high, perfectly simple, and naked except at the summit, where 

 there is a whorl of four large, broadly egg-shaped, sessile and shining 

 leaves, each about three inches in length. In the midst of them, 

 elevated on a peduncle, rises a solitary green flower, all the parts of 

 which are in fours. The outer segments, or sepals, are narrow, 

 lanceolate, and about an inch long; the four inner ones, or petals, are 

 broader, and with a yellowish cast. All eight of them spread out widely, 

 and even recurve a little. Stamens eight, hypogynous, their filaments 

 slender, the anthers linear and yellowish. Ovary four-celled, with 

 as many distinct styles, and ripening into a violet- coloured berry. 

 Sometimes there are five leaves, in which case the flower becomes 

 pentamerous, and occasionally there are as many as six or seven, or 

 only three or two, but in these cases, the flower, if any, remains four 

 or five cleft. The chief portion of the stems bear leaves only. 



HABITATS AND LOCALITIES. 

 Tktte-love — {Paris qtiadrifolia.) 

 Damp woods, generally half-concealed among taller. plants, and in 

 other modest retreats among the trees. Cotterill Clough ; Ashley; 

 and abundant in Burley Hurst Wood, Mobberley, on both sides of the 

 streamlet that creeps along the bottom. " Wood near Bury, and near 

 Mellor, Derbyshire." (B. G.) Fl. June. 



E. B. i. 7; Baxter, i. 0. 



