Gleason: The pedunculate species of Trillium 391 



Type locality : The southern Alleghanies. 

 Distribution : The lower Appalachian region, from Tennessee 

 to Georgia and South Carolina. 



The flowers are larger and the filaments longer in this than in 

 any other red-flowered North American species. 



^4. Trillium simile sp. nov. 



Stem stout, erect, smooth, 3-4.5 dm. high ; leaves very broadly 

 rhomboid, abruptly narrowed at base, short-acuminate at apex, 

 10-18 cm. long and broad; peduncle 3-7 cm. long, declined or 

 cernuous ; petals white, broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, 3-4 

 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide ; stamens much surpassing the stigmas ; 

 filaments 5-6 mm. long, about half as long as the yellow anthers, 

 which are 10-12 mm. long; ovary dark-purple, deeply 6-lobed, 

 the stigmas short, stout, sessile, tapering from the base to the 

 recurved tip. 



Type collected in moist woodlands near Tryon, North Caro- 

 lina ; Biltmore Herbarium TfgjjA, in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. Other specimens of this species have 

 been collected on Tryon Mountain, North Carolina, and in Fannin 

 County, Georgia, by A. M. Huger, and at Biltmore, North 

 Carolina. 



In general habit it resembles closely T. Rugelii, but is distin- 



guished by the much longer stamens, the yellow anthers and the 

 proportionately longer filaments. 



5. Trillium Rugelii Rendle, Jour. Bot. 39: 331. 1901 



Peduncle about 2 cm. long, nodding : petals broadly ovate, 

 white ; filaments 3-3.5 mm - ' on g J anthers purple, 8-10 mm. long. 



Type locality : Broad River, North Carolina. 



Distribution : The mountains of western North Carolina and 

 northern Georgia, The Georgia record is based on a fruiting 

 plant, Harper 1891, from Randolph county. 



6. Trillium erectum L. Sp. PI. 340. 1753 



Trillium pendulum Willd. Gesell. Naturf. Berlin Neue Schr. 3: 

 421. i8oj. 



Trillium rhomboideum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I : 215. 1803. 

 Trillium rhomboideum album Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 215. 1803. 



