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TRIKALA, in Mythology, is a name of the Hindoo 

 deity Siva. One of his names is Kala, or Time, and the 

 epithet Tri prefixed denotes his omnifcience and omnipre- 

 "fence as to all times, pait, prefent, and to come ; a myfti- 

 cal triad or union of time. The honourable defignation of 

 Trikala is fometimes given to, or affumed by, individuals 

 of fuppofed profundity of knowledge, efpecially if of an 

 infpired or prophetic defcription. The confort of Siva in 

 this form or charafter is Trikali, or Trikala-devi-kumari, 

 meaning the divine triple maid, or triform divine maiden 

 Kali. See Trisakti. 



TRIKALA-DEVI. See the preceding article. 

 TRILATERAL, a term applied to aU three-fided 

 figures. See Triangle. 



TRILEUCUM Promontorium, or Lapac'ia Cory, in 

 Ancient Geography, a promontory on the northern coail of 

 Spain, N. of the country of the Callaici. According to 

 Ptolemy, it lay between Flavium Brigantium and the mouth 

 of the river Metarus or Mearus. 



TRILIX, in Botany, a Latin word, ufed for a tiflue of 

 three threads, woven or twilled together ; but how it ap- 

 plies to this plant, we are not informed. Mutis, its difco- 

 verer, called the genus Jacquinla. De Theis underftands the 

 above name as merely equivalent to triple, and alluding to 

 the three calyx-leaves, and three petals, which perhaps is 

 right — Linn. Mant. 153. Schreb. 347. Willd. Sp. PI. 

 V. 2. 1 129. Mart. Mill. Di£l v. 4. Juff. 435. — Clafs and 

 order, Polyandr'ta Monogynia. Nat. Ord. uncertain. 



Gen. Ch. Cat. Perianth inferior, of three ovate, acute, 

 fpreading, flat, permanent leaves. Cor. Petals three, lan- 

 ceolate, acute, fmaller than the calyx. Stam. Filaments 

 numerous, capillary, the length of the corolla ; anthers 

 roundifh, minute, two-lobed. Pjji. Germen fuperior, five- 

 angled ; ftyle cyhndrical ; ftigma fimple. Peric. Berry ob- 

 fcurely five-angled, of five cells, covered by the calyx. 

 Seeds numerous, roundifli, minute. 



EfT. Ch. Petals three. Calyx of three leaves. Berry 

 of five cells, with many feeds. 



I. T. lutea. Linn. Mant. 247. Willd. n. i. — Gathered 

 at Carthagena, in South America, by Mutis, from whofe 

 defcription alone, contrary to his ufual praAice, Linnaeus 

 adopted this genus into his fyftem. This, the only fpecies, 

 is a fhrub two fathoms in height, with very numerous, 

 round, roughi(h branches. Leaves alternate, ftalked, fome- 

 what peltate, ovate, rather heart- (haped, pointed, ferrated, 

 veiny, downy. Footjlalks round, fmooth. Flo-wers yellow, 

 not from the corolla, but the anthers, generally terminal, 

 racemofe, their partial _y?(7/ij fimple, round, downy. 



TRILL, in Mufic, a plain fhake upon a fingle note, 

 formed by a beating in the throat on the vowel 0, or by the 

 (baking of the palate on the throat in one found upon a 

 note : this grace is ufually made in clofes or cadences, and 

 when on a long note exclamation or paffion is expreffed, the 

 trill is made in the latter part of fuch note ; but moft com- 

 monly on binding notes and fuch as precede the clofing note. 

 See Trillo. 



T^VLi.-Hooh, thofe ufed to hold the fides of a cart up 

 to the horfe. 



TRILLETTO, in the Italian Mufic, a little ftiort fliake 

 or quaver ; it differs from trillo only in point of continu- 

 ance, being its diminutive. 



TRILLION, in Arithmetic, the number of a biUion of 

 billions. 



After billions, we reckon by trillions, which makes a 

 clafs of numeration, and is divided, like the other clafles, 

 into three places : thus we fay, trillions, tens of trillions, 

 Jiundreds of trillions, &c. 



TRILLIUM, in Botany, a Linnsean name, left unex- 

 plained by its author, evidently alludes, like Trilix, to the 

 triple number, not only of the calyx-leavec and petals, but 

 of the ftigmas, cells of the fruit, and even of the leaves, 

 which prevails throughout this genus — Linn. Gen. iSo. 

 Schreb. 240. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 2. 271. Mart. Mill. 

 Dift. V. 4. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 328. Pur(h 244. 



Ju(f. 42. Lamarck Illuftr. t. 267 Clafs and ordei-, 



Hexandria Trigynia. Nat. Ord. Sarmentacete, Linn. Afpa- 

 ragi, Jufl". 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of three fpreading, 

 ovate, permanent leaves. Cor. Petals three, nearly ovate, 

 rather larger than the calyx. Stam, Filaments fix, awl- 

 ihaped, ereft, fiiorter than the calyx ; anthers terminal, ob- 

 long, the length of the filaments. Pijl. Germen roundifh, 

 fuperior ; ftyles three, thread-fhaped, recurved ; ftigmas 

 fimple. Peric. Berry roundilTi, of three cells. Seeds 

 feveral, roundifh. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx of three leaves. Petals three. Berry of 

 three cells. 



This genus is entirely confined, as far as botanifts have 

 hitherto obferved, to North America. Linnaeus has 

 defcribed three fpecies, nor has Willdenow any more, in his 

 Sp. PI. Purfh has given by far the beft account of the 

 genus, greatly increafing the number of fpecies. We (hall 

 therefore follow him in the greater part of their arrange- 

 ment. All are perennial, herbaceous, fmooth, with a fimple, 

 ereft, round Jl^m, bearing three fimple entire leaves at the 

 top, and a folitary flower, feffile or ftalked, in the centre 

 between them. Five of thefe plants are mentioned by 

 Mr. Aiton, as cultivated in England, all hardy, flowering 

 in April or May. In natural affinity, Trillium comes very 

 near to Paris. See that article. 



l.T.feJfde. Dark SefTile Trillium. Limi. Sp. PI. 484. 

 Willd. n. 3. Purfh n. I. Ait. n. 5. Curt. Mag. t. 40. 

 Redout. Lihac. t. 133. (Paris foliis ternis, flore feflili 

 erefto ; Oron. Virg. ed. I. 44. Solanum triphyllum, flore 

 tripetalo atro-purpureo, in fohorum finu abfque pediculo, 

 feiffti ; Pluk. Phyt. t. iii. f. 6. S. triphyllum, &c. ; 

 Catefb. Carol, v. i. t. 50.) — Flower feffile, ereft. Petals 

 lanceolate, ereft, twice the length of the calyx. Leaves 

 feffile, broadly eUiptical, acute. — On the fides of fertile hiUs, 

 in fhady rocky ground, from Pennfylvania to Carolina, 

 flowering in April and May. Flower dark chocolate- 

 brown. Berry purple. I have feen a fpecimen with yellow 

 flowers, brought from the Cherokee nation, which probably 

 may be a diftinS fpecies. Purfti. Our plant has a thick, 

 tuberous, horizontal root, with many fimple fibres. Stem 

 three or four inches high. Leaves fpreading, rather de- 

 flexed, two inches long, fpotted with light and dark-green, 

 fomewhat hke Erythronium Dens-canis. Calyx-leaves an inch 

 long, fpreading, lanceolate, green with a purple tinge. 

 Petals deep purple, nearly twice as long, converging, taper- 

 ing at the bafe. 



2. T.petiolatum. Plantain-leaved Trilliiun. Purfh n. 2. 

 — " Flower feffile, ereft. Petals linear -lanceolate, upright, 

 rather longer than the calyx. Leaves elliptic -lanceolate, 

 acute, on very long footftalks." — About the waters of 

 the Koofkooflty. Gov. Lewis. Flowering in June. This 

 Angular fpecies, whofe flowers refemble thofe of the fore- 

 going, has leaves very much like Plantago major. Purjh, 



3. T. piUum. Purple-veined Trillium. Purfh n. 3. 

 (T. erythrocarpum ; Michaux Boreal. -Amer. v. 1. 216. 

 " T. undulatum ; Willd. Hort. Beroh v. i. 55.")— "Flower- 

 ftalk nearly upright. Petals elliptic-lanceolate, acute, re- 

 curved, nearly twice as long as the linear -lanceolate calyx. 

 Leaves ovate, pointed ; rounded at the bafe ; abruptly 



ftalked." 



