TRILLIUM DISCOLOR Wray ; Hook. Bot. Mag. pl. 3697. Trillium sessile var. If rayi S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 14: 273.
1879. • Perennial by a rootstock, bright green, glabrous. Stems erect, 1-2 dm. tall, smooth ; leaves oval, 6-7 cm. long, obtuse, or short acuminate, 3-5-nerved, mottled, rounded at the base, sessile ; flowers sessile ; sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 2 cm. long, obtuse or acute, spreading ; petals broadly spatulate, about ;; longer than the sepals, greenish, sessile, rounded and one promi nently apiculate at the apex; stamens less than r2 as long as the petals, the filaments nearly wanting ; berry not seen.
Georgia.
Apparently a rare species and not lately collected, but very distinct, differing from all its relatives in the peculiar broadly spatulate petals, one of which is distinctly apiculate.