Sub Ord. TrilliacexE.—(Trillium Family.) 
DEATH FLOWER. 
Trillium Grandifldrum. 
“ And spotless lilies bend the head 
Low to the passing gale.” 
ATURE has scattered with no niggardly hand these re¬ 
markable flowers over hill and dale, wide shrubby plain 
and shady forest glen. In deep ravines, on rocky islets, 
the bright snow white blossoms of the Trilliums greet the 
eye and court the hand to pluck them. The old people in this part 
of the Province call them by the familiar name of Lily. Thus we 
have Asphodel Lilies , Douro Lilies , &c. In Nova Scotia they are 
called Moose-flowers, probably from being abundant in the haunts of 
Moose-deer. In some of the New England States the Trilliums, 
white and red, are known as the Death-flower , but of the origin of so 
ominous a name we have no record. We might imagine it to have 
originated in the use of the flower to deck the coffin or graves of 
the dead in the olden times. The pure white blossoms of T. nivale, 
T. cernuum (nodding Trillium) and T. grandiflorum, might serve not 
inappropriately for emblems of innocence and purity, when laid upon 
