WILD ll.ow ERS OF NEW YORK 6l 



about one-half of an inch long; the three styles slender and ascending. 

 Fruit a globose, black, slightly six-lobed berry, three-fourths to I inch in 

 diameter. 



In rich woods, preferring ravines and wooded upland slopes, Quebec 

 to Ontario and Minnesota, south to North Carolina and Missouri. 



Various monstrous forms sometimes occur with two to several long- 

 petioled leaves, double flowers, and even forms with green, variegated or 

 leaflike petals. 



Painted Wake-robin 



Trillium iindulatum Willdenow 



Plate 24a 



Stem slender, 8 to 20 inches high, bearing three ovate, petioled. bluish 

 green, waxy leaves, 3 to 8 inches long, 2 to 5 inches wide, long-acuminate 

 at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base. Flowers on erect or somewhat 

 inclined peduncles, 1 to 2§ inches long; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, three- 

 fourths to ij inches long, spreading; petals ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate or acute, white and marked with magenta veins at the base, 

 thin, and longer than the sepals, widely spreading, wavy-margined; the 

 ovoid ovary with three slender spreading styles, ripening into an ovoid, 

 obtuse, bluntly three-angled bright red shining berry. 



Common in woods, especially low, moist or cool, sandy woodlands, 

 Nova Scotia to Ontario and Wisconsin, south to Georgia and Missouri. 

 Flowers in May and. usually a few days later than the white or red trilliums. 



Nodding Wake-robin 

 Trillium cernuum Linnaeus 



Plate 24b 



Stems rather slender, 8 to 20 inches high; leaves pale green, broadly 

 rhombic, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, sessile or with very 

 short petioles, peduncle one-half to \\ inches long, recurved beneath the 

 leaves and bearing a single drooping flower about 1 to ij inches broad, 

 sepals lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, petals white or pinkish, 



