Sub Ord. Trilliace^.— (Trillium Family.) 



WHITE TRILLIUM. 



DEATH FLOWER. 



Trillium Grandijiorum. 



" And spotless lilies bend the head 

 Low to the passing gale." ' : 



^^^^ATURE has scattered with no niggardly hand these re- 

 markable flowers over hill and dale, wide shrubby plain 

 and shady forest glen. In deep ravines, or rocky islets, 

 the bright snow-white blossoms of the Trilliums greet the 

 eye and court the hand to pluck them. The old people in this part 

 of the Province call them by the familiar name of Lily. Thus we 

 have Asphodel Lilies^ Douro Lilies, &c. In Xova Scotia they are 

 called Moose-flowers, probably from being abundant in the haunts of 

 Moose-deer. In some of the Xew England States the Trilliums, 

 white and red, are known as the Death-flower, but of the origin of so 

 ominous a name we have no record. We might imagine it to have 

 originated in the use of the flower to deck the coffin or graves of 

 the dead in the olden times. The pure white blossoms of T. nivale, 

 T. cernum (nodding Trillium) and T, grandiflorum, might serve not 

 inappropriately for emblems of innocence and purity, when laid upon 



