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parts, but tlowers two or three weeks earlier, the buds are 

 rounder, the spike less crowded and the separate flowers are 

 much larger, deeper in colour, and each one has a rather con- 

 spicuous white eye. It has occurred in the vicinity of Ottawa 

 at Eastman's, Buckingham and King's Mere, but is ver}'- rare. 

 Mr. J. B. Goode, of Montreal, a well-known and successful 

 collector of our native Orchis, who made an excursion to the 

 Mere Bleue with some members of the Botanical Section, on 

 May 28th found two or three fine' plants, although at that time 

 the spike of flowers was only just appearing. The flowers do not 

 expand until the end of June. 



Trilliiun Grandiflonnn. — We give herewith a figure of 

 a very beautiful Trillimn which was received from our 

 esteemed member Mrs. Chamberlin, now of Lakefielcl, Ont. 

 The specimen was found on Ma)/ the ist, under a haw- 

 thorn tree in leaf mould with another \'oung specimen The 

 parcel also contained a speci- 

 men of undoubted Trilliinii 

 grandifloruin, of which the 

 inner lobes of the perianth. 

 (" petals ") were beautifully- 

 striped with green. I am in- 

 clined to think that the pre- 

 sent specimen is a variation 

 of Triiliuin crytlirocarpum^ 

 the Painted TrilHum, al- 

 though there are some char- 

 acters which tend to make 

 -this doubtful. Trilliuui 

 erythrocarpum with both 

 whorls of tne perianth green 

 are iound from time to 

 :iime in different parts of 

 Canada and are quite abund- 

 ant in some localities, partic- 

 ularly along the shore of Lake Erie. I have never felt quite 



