the Genus Trillium. 115 
edly the true T. cérnuwm of botanists, and is the smallest 
of the genus. 
The most perfect and minute description of Trillium, 
is that given by the author of * Flora Cestrica," a work 
of great interest to every lover of Botany. In his ac- 
count of T. péndulum, Munu., the T. cérnuum of other 
authors, he observes, *that there has been much per- 
plexity, among American botanists, concerning this spe- 
cies, in consequence of Pursh having confounded it with 
the true T. cérnuum of the south, (the T. Catesbei of 
Elliot, T. stylósum of Nuttall)." 
Dr. Bigelow, in his “ Flórula Bostoniensis," describes 
three species growing in this vicinity, T. cérnuum, T. erec- 
tum, 'T. pictum ; to these three alone, my observations 
have been confined; 'T. grandiflorum of Salisbury, is 
added, on very good authority, to Professor Hitchcock's 
catalogue of the plants of Massachusetts, but it must 
be of rare occurrence. 
Dr. Torrey, however, remarks that amongst his speci- 
mens of Trillium, are three from Deerfield, Mass. ; which 
have three distinct, though short styles, with the stigmas 
nearly erect ; in other respects, they resemble T. erythro- 
carpum, the pictum of Bigelow. 
Nuttall makes the same observation, regarding the 
style and stigma, in describing a T. cérnuum, Micuavx, 
from Carolina and Georgia, of which he observes, ‘“ the 
peduncle is rigidly recurved under the leaves, petals rose 
color, undulated, germ with a distinct, solitary style, as in 
no other species of the genus, and three smoothish 5e 
mas, somewhat shorter than the style. 
The earliest figure of Trillium is in Cornutus, a writer 
in the beginning of the 17th century, on Canadian and 
other plants; itis a mere wood cut, in the style of those 
