144 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 



Medea herself, in his wonderful ship the Argo. Little did she 

 then suppose that a plant of a strange people would serve to 

 recall the story. 



LARGE-FLOWERED WAKE-ROBIN. i^Flate LXXIII) 



Trilliiun g7'andiflb7'iiin. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily-o/-t he-valley. White, turning Scentless. Vermont to Penn. May., June, 

 later to pink. and westward. 



Flowers: terminal; solitary. Calyx: of three, long, pointed, green sepals. 

 Corolla : of three pointed petals ; sometimes three inches long. Stamens : six. 

 Pistil : one ; stigma having three branches. Fruit : a red or purple berry. 

 Leaves: whorled in threes below the flower; ovate; triple-veined. Stem: 

 erect ; simple. Rootstock : rather tuberous. 



The trilliums are among the choicest wild flowers of North 

 .America ; and with the exception of a few Japanese and Hima- 

 layan species are peculiar to the country. T. grandiflorum is 

 possessed of a chaste, dignified beauty, but is without fragrance. 

 We especially lament this, as the greater number of large, white 

 flowers are heavily scented. 



In support of the theory that all petals were originally leaves, 

 those of the trilliums have a curious way of occasionally turn- 

 ing into leaves. 



PAINTED TRILLIUM. {Plate LXXIV) 



TrilliiDH tindiddtum. 



FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Lily-o/-t he-valley. White, veined with Scentless. Following the A lie- Spring, 

 crimson and purple. ghany Mountains 



to Georgia, 



Flowers : terminal ; solitary. Periaitth : of three green sepals and three 

 white, pointed petals. Stamens : six. Pistil : one, with three curving stigmas. 

 Fruit : a beautiful, ovate, rather angled, red berry, an inch and a quarter in 

 length. Leaves: large; ovate; triple-veined; in whorls of three on the 

 stem, at times almost hiding the flower. Stem : brownish at the top. Roots : 

 poisonous. 



Perhaps the most delicately beautiful member of the family 

 is the painted trillium ; although the marking of the white, or 

 pink petals with wine colour has given rise to the suspicion 

 that the arts have been consulted. The name, however, is no 



