LIL\L FAMILY. LUiacese. 



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and Ocikesia are both slender drooping- 

 leaved plants, early in the season at the time of bloom , 

 later they expand to a broader figure. 



o. . t- .... Tne trilliums are handsome woodland 

 Stem less Trilli- , 



urn or Wake- P lants with stout stems, ruddy purple at 

 robin the base ; their perfect flowers have three 



Trillium sessile green sepals which remain until the plant 

 Dull magenta- w i t h erS) t h re e petals much larger, and six 

 April-May stamens. T. sessile has stemless, slightly 

 fragrant flowers with narrow petals and 

 sepals, the former rather erect and spreading, dull ma- 

 genta-red, varying to a greenish tone. Leaves stemless, 

 somewhat four-sided but ovate, and often blotched with 

 lighter and darker green. Red berry spherical or nearly 

 so, £ inch deep. The name is from triplum, triple, a 

 characteristic of all parts of the plant. 5-10 inches high. 

 Moist woods. Penn., south, and west to Minn, and Ark. 

 m .„. Differs from the preceding in the fol- 



recurvatum lowing particulars. The leaves are nar- 

 rowed at the base into a stem, and the 

 flower has reflexed sepals, and pointed petals narrowed 

 at the base. 6-16 inches high. Rich woods. Ohio and 

 west. 



_. , _. A very common eastern species, with 



Wake-robin, or , . * \ 



Birth root four-sided ovate leaves scarcely stemmed, 



Trillium erec- and abruptly pointed, and flowers, with a 

 turn reclining stem, varying in color from white 



Maroon, or f. Q pjjjj^ brownish purple-red or maroon, 

 April-June with flat, ovate, spreading petals nearly 

 1£ inches long, the sepals a trifle shorter. 

 Sometimes the flower is dull pink, of a brownish purple 

 tone, and rarely it is greenish. It is ill-scented, and as a 

 consequence attracts the carrion-loving green fly(Luctiia 

 carnicina), commonly called the flesh-fly, who finds the 

 raw-meat color of the flower as acceptable as the odor. 

 According to Clarence M. Weed this fly is the most use- 

 ful pollen disseminator of Trillium erectum. Berry 

 darker red, round-ovate. 7-15 inches high. Rich 

 woods. New Eng. to N. C, west to Minn, and Mo. 



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