LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY FAMILY. 



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at the apex and wavy on the edges. Shitiiciu : six, with long, recurved anthers. 

 Stigmas: slender, united below the middle. Leaves: growing in whorls of three 

 at the summit of the stem ; short petioled ; oval-oblong; poinied at both ends; 

 entire; thin; nearly glabrous. Slem : one to two feet high, slender ; smooth. 

 Rootstvck: tuberous. 



In shady glades often at the 

 bases of high mountains this 

 very pretty trilliuni grows and 

 is one that is peculiar to the 

 south. In the late season many 

 that walk in the woods stop 

 and wonder at the distinctive 

 and oft-repeated foliage of these 

 low herbs, and yet have no idea 

 that earlier in the season they 

 have borne the showy blossoms 

 of one of the noted trilliums, a 

 family celebrated for its beauty 

 and excellent traits. In culti- 

 vation, however, we see every 

 year that they become more 

 popular. Of nearly all the 

 genus the rhizomes are collected 

 and used in the domestic 

 practice of medicine when they 

 serve as nerve tonics. Between 

 the various species, however, 

 the natives make considerable 

 distinction. 



FAMILY 



L ily-o/-th e- 1 'a Ucy. 



UNDERWOOD'S WAKE=ROBIN. 



Trilliiun Un deriubodii. 



COLOUR 



Reddish purple. 



ODOUR 



Like iiiJisk. 



RANGE 

 Teun. and X. C. 

 to Ft a. and Ala. 



TIME OF BLOOM 

 April, Mity. 



Flcnvers : terminal ; sessile. Perianth : with three lanceolate sepals, pointed 

 or blunt at the apex and three oblong or oblanceolate petals, often two and a 

 half inches long. Stamens : six, with long, linear anthers. Lea-res : in a wliorl of 

 three directly below the flower; orbicular or broadly ovate, pointed at the apex 

 and rounded or narrowed at the base ; entire ; thin. Stem : erect ; simple ; some- 

 times a foot and a half high and sheathed at the base with a membraneous scale. 

 Rootstoek : horizontal. 



