5. TRILLIUM LANCEOLATUM Boykin ; S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14 : 274. As synonym. 1879.
Trillium recuratum var. (?) lanceolatum S. Wats. Proc. Am Acad. 14 : 273. 1879.
Perennial by a rootstock, bright green, glabrous. Stems erect, 1-4 cm. long, slender, purplish, smooth ; leaves lanceolate or el liptic, 7-9 cm. long, acute or acutish, more or less constricted at the base, sessile ; flowers sessile ; sepals linear or linear-lanceo late, 2-2.5 cm. long, acute, green, spreading ; petals clawed, 3-3.5 cm. long, the blades linear or linear-oblong, acute, the claws about twice as long as blades ; stamens about X as long as the petals ; filaments about as long as the more or less incurved anthers ; berry not seen.
In moist woodlands and river bottoms, Georgia to Alabama, and Louisiana. (?) April and May.
The following label accompanying Dr. Boykins' original speci men may be of interest : " 7rilliuM lanceolatum. This is cer tainly a new species of sessile Trillium. It grows universally in stiff clayey river bottoms. Flowers March and April. The fruit is more bellied than S. Trillium, and deep grooving formed by the stamina, rendering it hexagonal. Stamina incurved."