14 Trillium cernuum. 



base white, invested with sheaths. Leaves three, drooping, ter- 

 minal, rhomboid-ovate, narrow at base, sessile, or nearly so, termi- 

 nating at their apices in abrupt points, deeply veined, veins promi- 

 nent and numerous below, yellow-green above, under surface shining. 

 Peduncle from one-half of an inch to an inch, rarely an inch and a 

 quarter long, turned downwards beneath the two leaves and con- 

 cealing the flower under one. Calix dependant, consisting of three 

 petaloid, acuminate, lanceolate, or lanceolate-ovate segments, the 

 margins approaching by reflected convolutions near the apex. Petals 

 three, white, turbinated or turned upwards in a direction contrary 

 to the calix leaves ; also acuminate, occasionally one-half greenish, 

 like the petaloid calix. Anthers constantly six in number, a quarter 

 of an inch long, oblong, white, with yellow pollen on the margin. 

 Stigmas three, prismatic, and convoluted at the end, tinged with car- 

 mine, projecting beyond the anthers, and being aggregated into a solid 

 mass at base. Berries purple. Grows in damp rocky woods or 

 grottoes, near rivulets, delighting in rich soil, throughout the Union. 

 Flowers in the beginning of May — to the south in April. On the 

 banks of the Schuylkill, near the falls, west side: near Mantua Vil- 

 lage, and other places contiguous to Philadelphia, this plant is very 

 abundant. 



This is not the Trillium cernuum of Michaux, which is now called 

 T. stylosum by Nuttall, and T. Catesbrci of Elliot. Catcsby's plant 

 was probably the original T. cernuum of Linnaeus, a name now 

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