TRIENTALIS EUROPXA. 
EUROPEAN WINTER-GREEN. 
Class. Order. 
HEFTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
primulacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
4 inches. 
May, June. 
Perennial. 
Woods. 
No. 544. 
The name, Trientalis, was first given to this plant 
•by Rauhin ; but he used the word as an adjective, 
calling it herba trientalis, significant of its small 
size ; perhaps he intended to indicate its being the 
third of a span in height. Linneus found it in Lap- 
land, and named it Trientalis Europaea. 
Linneus’s expressions of delight regarding it show 
very vividly the warmth of his feelings. He con- 
sidered it a most fascinating little subject; but how 
many amongst us, on the contrary, seek fascinations 
only in more specious characters ; yet there are minds 
endowed with chasteness of feeling — with admiration 
of vegetable beauty in its simplest attire, which, im- 
bued with a little enthusiasm, enjoy a flow of pleasure 
unknown to souls insensible of the higher grade of 
intellectual emotions. 
In the Highlands of Scotland, this plant grows 
abundantly under the shade of trees, and attains the 
height of ten or twelve inches ; but on exposed heaths, 
it is very diminutive. It should be potted in a mix- 
ture of fine heath soil, with a third part of sharp 
sand ; or in the same description of soil, on a shady 
border. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 333. 
