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ARUM Dracontium. 
Green Dragon. ; 
. — : 
MONŒCIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. AROIDEE. Jussieu gen. 28. Div. I. Spadix spathá involutus, 
AROIDEX (includentes et Typhas et Aroidass Jussieuii), 
Brown prod. 1. 333. Sect. ji Flores diclines; Perianthio 
(Calyce) nullo. Aroider vera. 
ARUM. Supra vol. 6. fol. 450. 
Div. Acaulia, foliis compositis. 
A. Dracontium, acaule; foliis eit foliolis lanceolato-oblongis integer- 
m ee subulato spatha oblonga convoluta longiore. amer, 
sept. 2. . 
Arum Dracontium. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1368. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 9. 
Michaux bor. amer. 2. 188. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 478. Nuttall gen. 2. 222. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 5.306. Barton comp. H. philad. 2. 181. 
Arum s. Arisarum virginianum, dracontii folio pene viridi longo acuminato. 
Pluk. alm. 52. f. 271. fig. 2. 
* Grows naturally in moist places in Virginia and New 
* England, but is very difficult to preserve long in a gar- 
“den. I received some roots of this from New England a 
* few years ago, which continued two years, but the soil 
“ being dry they decayed in summer. These should- have 
“a moist shady situation, otherwise they will not thrive. 
* The leaves of this sort are divided like those of the 
“ * Common Dragon’ (Arum Dracunculus), but are smaller, 
* and rarely grow more than nine inches high; the flowers 
* are like those of our common Arum or Cuckow-Pint 
* (Anum maculatum), but the pistil is longer than the 
* spathe. It flowers in June and the stalks decay in au- 
* tumn.” Mill. dict. ed. 7. n. 9. 
According to Dr. Barton it is found wild in the neigh- 
bourhood of Philadelphia, on the western border of the 
Schuylkill and on the Wissahickon; where it flowers in 
June and grows to the height of two feet. In other parts 
of the United States, it seldom exceeds the height of nine 
inches. Messrs. Pursh and Nuttall speak of the species as 
one to be found from Pensylvania and Virginia to Florida. 
