WAX TRILLIUM 



Trillium album (Michaux) Small 



Wax trillium is one of the trilliums which is little known and 

 seldom seen, but for that very reason, it is of greater interest when 

 found. Moist woods and thickets are 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 trillium (Trillium erectum). It occurs as isolated 

 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 



