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Floral Illustrations of the Seasons / Consisting of the Most Beautiful, Hardy and Rare Herbaceous Plants, Cultivated in the Flower Garden

Chapter 45: TRILLIUM Grandiflorum.
By Margaret Roscoe
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A series of hand-drawn and engraved botanical plates paired with succinct Latin classifications and practical cultivation notes, arranged to follow the seasons. Each entry describes plant form, varieties, propagation and soil or exposure preferences, and suggests garden uses for hardy herbaceous ornamentals. The preface frames the volume as an accessible guide intended to encourage aesthetic appreciation and botanical study, particularly among women, by combining accurate description with visual representation.

Plate 16. Trillium Grandiflorum.
Drawn from Nature by M.R. Engraved by R. Havell Junr.

TRILLIUM Grandiflorum.

Large flowered Trillium.

Class and Order.—Hexandria Trigynia.

Syn. Trillium Grandiflorum. Salisbury Par. Lon. pl. 35.
 — Trillium Grandiflorum. Hort. Kew. Vol. 2. p. 329
 — Trillium Grandiflorum. Nuttall's gen. N. A. Vol. 1. p. 239.

Root tuberous, stem radical, simple, eight to ten inches high,—leaves three, sessile, large, spreading, oval shaped, obtuse, margins undulate—peduncle short—flower terminal, drooping—calyx three segments, lanceolate, acute—corolla white—petals three, spreading, ovate, obtuse, nerved—stamens six, filaments short, anthers oblong, styles three, stigmas recurved.

This is the most desirable species of the genus and a very handsome herbaceous plant, the beautiful white flowers forming a pleasing contrast to the dark green leaves by which they are surrounded. It is a native of Upper Canada, and according to Nuttall, is found generally in umbrageous forests.—a peat soil, and shady situation are essential to its favorable cultivation, and as these are afforded, the flower varies accordingly in size—it is a plant of slow growth, not hearing frequent removal, and is therefore not common, though it has been known in this country since the year 1799—flowers about April, and is increased by parting the roots. The other species are not particularly desirable, except in extensive herbaceous collections.

T. sessile. erectum.
— cernuum. stylosum.

Pl. 16.