144 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



LILIACE^. Lily Family. 



TRILIjIUM, L. Tkillium. Three-leaveu Nightshade. Wake- 

 Robin. 



T. sessile, L. Trillium. Three-leaved Nightshade. Wake-Robin. 



Saint Paul, Miss Cathcart. Southeast. 



T. recur vatuin, Beck. Trillium. Thre-leaved Nigh tshade. 

 Lake Pepin, Miss Manning. Southeast. 



T. gTanclifloruni, Salisb. Large White Trillium or Wake-Robin. 



Frequent northward ; extending southeast to laxe Pepin, Miss Manning, North- 

 field, Rice county, Vhaney, and Blue Earth county, Gedgc. 



T. erectimi, L. Purple Trillium or Birthroot. Bath Flower. 



Lapham. Blue Earth county, Leiberg,- Saint Paul, Jfiss Caf/icart; Minneapolis, 

 Simmons. Rare. (Watson's Revision of the, North American Liliaceoi makes this 

 name include also the two following, which, however, are retained here as In Gray's 



Manual.) 



T. erectuni, L., var. album, Parsh. Trillium. Birthroot. 



Winona, Holzinger; Marine, Washington county. Miss Field; Stearns county. Gar- 

 rison. Rare. 



T. erectum, L., var. rteclinatuui, Gray. Trillium. Birthroot, 

 Frequent, in some localities plentiful, throughout the state. 



T. cernuuiii, L. Nodding Trillium or Wake-Robin. 



Common, or frequent, throughout most of the state ; extending north at least to 

 Grand Marais, Roberts, and tlie upper Mississippi river. Garrison; and west to Fergus 

 Falls, Leonard, and Redwood Falls, Pcmbcrton. 



T. nivale, Riddell. Dwarf White Trillium. Snowy Trillium. 



Winona, Holzinger; lake Pepin, Miss Manning; near South Beud, Blue Earth county, 

 Leiherg; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty. Rare. South. 



MEDEOIjA,Gronov. Indian Cucumber-koot. 



M. A^irginiaua, L. Indian Cucumber-root. 



Lapham. Near Saint Paul, 3frs. Terry ; Lake City, Mrs. Ray. Infrequent. 

 Southeast. 



MELANTHIUM, L. Melanthium. 



M. Virgin! cum, L. Bunch-flower. 



Minneapolis (near lake Calhoun), 3frs. Terry. Rare, Southeast. 



ZYGADENUS, Michx. Zygadene. 



Z. eleg"aus, Pursh. (Z. glaucas, Nutt.) Zygadene. "Alkali-Grass." 



Coramon, uften abundant, throughout the west part of the state ; frequent eastward 

 to the upper Mississippi river, Sauk Center, and Nicollet and Steele counties; rare 

 farther east in Benton county, at Minneapolis, Castle Rock, Dakota county. Cannon 

 River Falls, Goodhue county, and lake Pepin. 



VERATRUM, Tourn. False Hellebore. 



V. viricle, Ait. American White Hellebore. Indian Poke. 

 Stearns county. Garrison. Infrequent. North. 



