~Trillium Sessile. Sessile Trillium.~


_Class and Order._

~Hexandria Trigynia.~

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 3-phyllus. _Cor._ 3-petala. _Bacca_ 3-locularis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

TRILLIUM flore sessili erecto. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 349._

PARIS foliis ternatis, flore sessili erecto. _Gron. virg. 44._

SOLANUM triphyllum. _Pluk. alm. 352. t. 111. f. 6._ _Catesb. car.
t. 50._

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Of this genus there are three species, all of which are natives of
North-America, and described by MILLER, in his _Gardener's
Dictionary_, where the genus is called _American Herb Paris_; but as the
_Paris_ and _Trillium_, though somewhat similar in the style of their
foliage, are very different in their parts of fructification, we have
thought it most expedient to anglicise _Trillium_, it being to the full
as easily pronounced as _Geranium_, and many other Latin names now