LILY FAMILY. Uliaceas. 



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= P^^^^^s with stout stems, ruddj^ purple at 



robin the base ; their perfect flowers have three 



Trillium sessile green sepals which remain until the plant 

 Dull magenta= -^yithers, three petals much larger, and six 

 A^ ril-Ma 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. 



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



Trilhum , . . , rr,, , 



recurvatum lowmg 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 



t''^^ reclining stem, var3ing in color from wliite 



aroon, or ^^ pink, brownish purple-red or maroon, 

 white, etc. . , _ x- i 



April-June ^"^'^^^^ "^^' o'^'ate, spreading petals nearly 



1| inches long, the sepals a trifle shorter. 

 Sometimes the flower is dull i3ink, of a brownish purple 

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

 consequence attracts the carrion-loving green fly (Lucilia 

 caniicina), 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 Trilliuin 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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