. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^ "^ PI,ATS a9> PAINTED TRILLIUM. TRILLIUM ERYTHROCARPUM. (LILY FAMILY.) SeM stmfle, tvtct from a !*<â »/, Ciitk, otiiiijue rnotitivk, hrttrmg ii -nhnrt tif Ihtf^ Iraift and a single UtrtMr; Itaws skorl-fifliofed, /iroatfJy m^au, .' j/ hai^, coitspimouity pointtd; flovittx ftdmmled: upals tkrff^ lanceoiattt grttn ; pâ¬tati tkitt, tiv^tt-tamteotate, white or pttle fiink with darker marktHgi at ttxte. XCEPT for three or four siK'cies native to the Himalayas aiul Japan, tlie
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. ^ "^ PI,ATS a9> PAINTED TRILLIUM. TRILLIUM ERYTHROCARPUM. (LILY FAMILY.) SeM stmfle, tvtct from a !*<â »/, Ciitk, otiiiijue rnotitivk, hrttrmg ii -nhnrt tif Ihtf^ Iraift and a single UtrtMr; Itaws skorl-fifliofed, /iroatfJy m^au, .' j/ hai^, coitspimouity pointtd; flovittx ftdmmled: upals tkrff^ lanceoiattt grttn ; pâ¬tati tkitt, tiv^tt-tamteotate, white or pttle fiink with darker marktHgi at ttxte. XCEPT for three or four siK'cies native to the Himalayas aiul Japan, tlie trilliums or wake-robins belong to North America. I'ew choicer llowers ailorn our forests. Tliey are odd plants, with the whorl of three leaves and the single large flower. Some- times the llower is stalked, sometimes not. The painted trillinm is the most delicately beautiful of them all. The dark green leaves .set off to great adv-.:itage the white or pale-pink petals, ex(iuisitely penciled with deep wiue-c';!or. It is a shy plant, confining itself to cold moist wchuIs and bogs. It occurs in the Northeastern Slates and Canada, and southward on the high -peaks of the Ulue Kidge and the .Mlcglianies to Georgia. It is also found sparingly as far west as Misscmri. The llowers open in April and May. The trilliums are '.rely fragrant. One kind, the erect trillium or bath-llower has a decidedly unpleasant, almost feiid o<lor. Hut there is a form of the sessile trillium in the Southern States whirli has lemon-colored, deliciously fra ;rant petals. There is one curious tiling alxmt the trilliums. The petals are very apt to turn into foliage leaves, especially iu rainy v;eatlier. This supports the theory that petals were originally M INDIAN TURNIP. PI,ATB 30. ARIS/EMA TRiPHYLLUM. (ARUM "^AMILY.) Corm tiiuk and round, strtn rrfd, the AiJf' tnrttoped ti theatking ualn, bfitrimg on^ or tn-o foliage leafes : teaiYS long pelioUd, ionrnting of three '.e-obtong, poin
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