190 Teschemacher on 
There is a dried specimen in the Society’s Herbarium, 
of a Trillium from Niagara, which has many of the char- 
acters of pictum; yet the pistils are much longer, the 
petals very long, attenuated and undulate ; the sepals 
nearly as long, the peduncle very long and elegantly 
slender, like T. erandiflórum ; the leaves more abruptly 
acuminated, with five very prominent nerves ; the fruit is 
not only angular, but distinctly winged at the angles. 
3. TriLLIUm erectum, of Authors. 
Observations on plants originally from Lancaster and 
cultivated. 
The three leaves are green, sessile, broadly rhomboi- 
dal, acuminate ; peduncle inclined, flower rather nutant, 
petals of a dingy, dark purple color, larger than the 
sepals; the centre nerve of the petals is often green 
on the outside, showing an approach to the sepal. Sta- 
mens arising from the base of sepal and petal, free, not 
united. Pollen yellow, in form the same as the others. 
Ovarium six angled like cérnuum ; in its early stages the 
internal succulent skin of each cell (endocarp) is sepa- 
rated from the side, forming a distinct sac in which the 
ovula are contained (fig. 8 a a a); there is no interven- 
ing skin, and when the berry is ripe, the vacant space is 
filled with pulp, so*that this construction is no longer 
observed. I have seen this in the present species only. 
The seed is precisely the same as in the others. The 
odor from this is disagreeable. It flowers in June, and 
is found in old woods. 
"I have a living plant from Thomaston, Maine, resem- 
bling T. eréctum in every thing except the ovarium, 
which is ovoid, without angles, like T. pictum, and the 
