144 PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 
Medea herself, in his wonderful ship the Avge. Little did she 
then suppose that a plant of a strange people would serve to 
recall the story. 
LARGE-FLOWERED WAKE-ROBIN. (Plate ZXXJ//) 
Trillium grandtflorumn, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily-of-the-valley. White, turning Scentless. Vermont to Penn. May, June. 
later to pink. and westward. 
Flowers: terminal; solitary. Calyx: of three, long, pointed, green sepals. 
Corolla : of three pointed petals ; sometimes three inches long. Stamens : six. 
Pistil: one; stigma having three branches. frit: a red or purple berry. 
Leaves: whorled in threes below the flower ; ovate; triple-veined. Stem: 
erect; simple. oofstock: rather tuberous. 
The trilllums are among the choicest wild flowers of North 
America ; and with the exception of a few Japanese and Hima- 
layan species are peculiar to the country. T. grandiflorum is 
possessed of a chaste, dignified beauty, but is without fragrance. 
We especially lament this, as the greater number of large, white 
flowers are heavily scented. 
In support of the theory that all petals were originally leaves, 
those of the trilliums have a curious way of occasionally turn- 
ing into leaves. 
PAINTED TRILLIUM. (late LXX/JV.) 
Trillium undulatum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Lily-of-the-valley. White, veined with Scentless. Following the Alle- Spring. 
crimson and purple. ghany Mountains 
to Georgia. 
Flowers : terminal; solitary. Perzanth: of three green sepals and three 
white, pointed petals. Stamens: six. /Pistil : one, with three curving stigmas. 
Fruit; a beautiful, ovate, rather angled, red berry, an inch and a quarter in 
length. Zeaves; large; ovate; triple-veined ;.in whorls of three on the 
stem, at times almost hiding the flower. Stem: brownish at the top. Roots: 
poisonous. 
Perhaps the most delicately beautiful member of the family 
is the painted trillium ; although the marking of the white, or 
pink petals with wine colour has given rise to the suspicion 
that the fair lady paints her face. The name, however, is no 

