122 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
esting of all the early spring wild flowers. It is 
not a very widely distributed species, being found 
from “ Pennsylvania to Ohio, south to Kentucky 
and Iowa.” Within these limits, however, it is 
decidedly local, occurring only here and there in 
woods and along river banks. In appearance it 
seems much like a miniature reproduction of the 
common Large-flowered Wakerobin, from which 
‘it differs chiefly in its smaller size and in the pres- 
ence of petioles upon its leaves. The plant rarely 
‘teaches a height of more than six inches. The 
petals are pure white; the blossom has a short 
stalk; the fruit is a three-lobed roundish berry. 
In Ohio I have found it blossoming’ in. March, 
when it well deserved its Latin name, Trilliuin 
mivale—the Snowy Trillium—for it was in bloom 
‘before the snow had disappeared. 
Wuite Tritttum. In my boyhood days in 
central Michigan the White. Trillium or Large- 
flowered Wakerobin was the wild flower of May. 
The woods were full of the beautiful blossoms 
which we all loved to gather and to bring home, 
where they retained their freshness for several 
days. Since then, while living in other states 
where this flower does not grow, the name Wake- 
robin always carries me back to those Beech 
woods and it is only by an afterthought that I 
can connect the name with the other Trilliums to 
which it is applied. 
