LILY FAMILY. Liliacess, 



Ark. Uvularia and Oakesia are both slender drooping* 

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

 later they expand to a broader figure. 



.The trilliums are handsome woodland 

 Stemless Trilli- 



um, or Wake= pl ants w ith stout stems, ruddy purple at 

 robin the base ; their perfect flowers have three 



Trillium sessile green sepals which remain until the plant 

 fed" mage " ta= withers, three 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, J 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. 



Differs from the preceding in the fol- 

 Tnllium 



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 

 Birthroot 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 ^ Q p m k brownish purple-red or maroon, 

 white, etc. * 



April-June with flat, ovate, spreading petals nearly 



1J 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 (Liicilia 

 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. 

 Trillium viride A similar species to T. sessile but larger. 

 Leaves ovate and sharp-pointed, the sepals spreading. 

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