WHITE OR WHITISH FLOWERS 
Larger White Trillium ( Trillium grandiflorum) . Lily family. 
May, June. 
An upright perennial, a foot high, with three egg-shaped, 
pointed leaves, practically without stalks; from their junction 
rises a stalk one and one-half to three inches long, bearing a 
flower with three narrow sepals and three longer petals, in 
time becoming pinkish; six stamens, and three styles. Rich 
woods. Nodding Trillium (Trillium cernuum) is similar, but 
with shorter flower-stalk curving downward. The flower is smaller, 
and its petals hardly exceed the sepals. Painted Trillium {Tril- 
lium undulatum) is similar to Larger White Trillium but with 
crimson centre; petals longer than sepals, leaves (six by three 
and one-half inches) with short stalks. The name is descriptive, 
since all parts are in threes. 
Bunchberry {Cornus canadensis) . Dogwood family. May 
to July. 
A perennial with stem four to eight inches high, bearing at 
the top a whorl of four to six leaves and, apparently, a single 
flower an inch broad with four large white petals and a greenish 
centre. The apparent petals are in reality an " involucre " of 
white leaves, and in the centre are the minute greenish flowers, 
each with four stamens and four petals, one with an awl-shaped 
appendage. Leaves egg-shaped or oval, pointed. Damp woods. 
Star Flower {Trientalis americana). Primrose family. 
May, June. 
A low perennial bearing a flower (sometimes two) one-half 
inch across, on a slender stalk ; calyx mostly seven-parted ; corolla 
mostly seven-parted, spreading, flat. Leaves (five to ten) 
whorled at top of stem, lance-shaped, tapering. Name from 
the Latin triens, a third, thought to mean a third of a foot 
high. 
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