No. 875. 
TRILLIUM SESSILE. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
This singular plant is a native of North 
America, growing from Pennsylvania to 
Carolina. Elliott, in his excellent botany of 
South Carolina and Georgia, observes, that 
it grows on rich high lands, and is the only 
species that is found near the sea coast. 
ger a a pe = it zn with a 
„ crown 
ed 3 with three leaves, in the contre of which 
the flower is closely seated: it is produced 
in April and May: the stalks decay early. 
It does increase by offsets, but not freely ; 
and thrives in peat earth, and much better 
in the full ground than ina pot. It is quite 
hardy. 
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