HARPER'S GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS 



relatives. Cold, damp, deep woods from Newfoundland to 

 the mountains of Georgia and westward. 



Wake Robin 



Trillium erectum — Family, Lily. Color, variable. It is called 

 all shades of purple, crimson, pink, white, or greenish. Perhaps 

 the more common color is deep pink. Sepals, 3, narrower than 

 the 3 petals, remaining after the petals have withered. Anthers 

 of the 6 stamens long, on short filaments. The pistil bears 3 stiff, 

 spreading stigmas which are stigmatic on their inner side. The 

 solitary flower stands or droops on a peduncle 1 to 4 inches long. 

 Flower 2 to 3 inches across. Leaves, 3, above on the stem, very 

 broad, 3 to 6 inches long, rhombic in shape, very sharply acute 

 at apex, sessile. April to June. 



A showy flower of early spring, but with a disagreeable 

 odor that is more attractive to insects than to ourselves. 

 Rich, moist woods, or more open but shaded and damp fields 

 from Quebec to Pennsylvania, and in the mountains to North 

 Carolina, also westward. (See illustration, p. 245.) 



Painted Trillium 



T. undulktum. — Color of petals white, with red or crimson 

 stripes. (See p. 50.) 



Large-flowered Wake Robin or Trillium 



T. grandiflorwn. — Color, white, the petals later turning a rich 

 pink, sometimes marked with green. (See p. 48.) 



T. cermtum. — Color, white or pink. (See p. 50.) 



Stemless Lady's Slipper. Moccasin Flower 



Cypripedium acaule — Family, Orchis. Color, pink, with darker 

 lines, rarely white. The color lies in the large, saccate lip; the 

 3 narrow sepals and 2 small petals are a greenish purple or brown. 

 They are inconspicuous beside the large pocket which hangs from 

 the upright, leafless scape. Leaves, a pair, near the base of the 

 stem, oval, 6 to 8 inches long, 2 or 3 wide, sessile, clasping. Stem, 

 § to 1 foot high. A bract is found near the flower. May and 

 June. 



Writers differ materially as to the haunts of this flower. 

 One says look for it on an exposed hillside. Another finds 

 it in swamps and still another among dry rocks. 



Among my earliest recollections are those of a wonderful 

 grove of tall white pines, where it seemed to me all the 



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