126 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 



and from which it may be known by the shorter 

 flower-stalk, which turns down beneath the leaves 

 and the white or pinkish petals, which are re- 

 curved. The Prairie Wakerobin is a species in 

 which the flower is sessile and the leaves have 

 rather long petioles. It is found in a limited 

 region in the Mississippi Valley. 



PURPLE TRILLIUM 



One may often find in the older settled regions 

 of the United States two familiar members of the 

 Lily-of-the- Valley family which have escaped 

 from cultivation. One of these is the common 

 Asparagus of the garden, which is frequently 

 found growing in waste places, where perhaps 

 some seed has been dropped by a bird or carried 



