WAX TRILLIUM 
Trillium album (Michaux) Small 
Wax trilltum is one of the trillitums which is little known and 
seldom seen, but for that very reason, it is of greater interest when 
found. Moist woods and thickets ate its favorite habitat. Since it 
thrives in cultivation in a wild garden, as do most of its relatives, it 
may be enjoyed each succeeding spring. It may be a color form of the 
well-known purple trilltum (Trillium erectum). It occurs as tsolated 
plants throughout the range of that species, from the mountains of 
Georgia and Alabama to Nova Scotia and Manitoba. The trilliums 
belong to the Lily Family, and the numerous species occurring in 
North America are distributed from coast to coast. 
The specimen sketched was obtained from a wild garden near 
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. 
PLATE 334 
