DESCRIPTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
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whitish and commonly minutely dotted. Perianth light 
yellow, lily-like, of 6 distinct lanceolate sepals, recurved or 
spreading above, deciduous, the 3 inner usually with a cal- 
lous tooth on each side of the erect base, and a groove in the 
middle. Filaments 6, awl-shaped; anthers oblong, linear. 
Style elongated, club-shaped. Capsule obovate, contracted 
at base, 3-valved, loculicidal. Rich hillsides ; wherever it oc- 
curs it is in large patches. March- April. Collect the leaves 
before flowering. 
Trillium erectum, L. Wake-Robin. Low perennial, a single 
stem arising from a premorse tuber-like rootstock, naked, 
bearing at the summit a whorl of 3 ample, commonly broadly 
ovate, more or less ribbed but netted-veined leaves and a 
terminal large flower. Leaves subsessile ; ray broadly rhom- 
bic, 2J-6' wide, shortly acuminate ; pedicel longer than the 
flower, 1-3' long, usually more or less inclined or declinate ; 
petals ovate-lanceolate, 9-18" long, brown-purple, sometimes 
pinkish ; stamens equaling or exceeding the stout, distinct- 
spreading or recurved stigmas; fruit ovate, V long, reddish. 
Flower ill-scented. Rich woodlands, Middle Tennessee, and 
prominently Cumberland Mountains.' FI. April-May. The 
rhizome. Collect in July. 
Chamselirium Carolinianum, Willd. Ch. luteum, Gray. Devil’s- 
Bit. Smooth herb, with a wand-like stem, from a bitter, 
thick and abrupt tuberous rootstock, terminated by a long 
wand-like spiked raceme 4-12' long, of small bractless flow- 
ers; fertile plant more leafy than the staminate. Leaves 
flat, lanceolate, the lowest spatulate, tapering into a petiole. 
Flowers dioecious. Perianth of male flowers, of 6 spatulate- 
linear (white), spreading, 1-nerved sepals, withering, persist- 
ent. Filaments thread-like, Avhite, anthers 2-cel led extrorse. 
Fertile flowers with rudimentary stamens. Styles linear- 
club-shaped, stigmatic along the inner side. Capsule ovoid- 
oblong, not lobed, of a thin texture, loculicidally 3-valved 
from the apex, many-seeded. Dry woodlands. The oak- 
