Tas. 6023. 
ARISARUM voteare. 
Native of the Mediterranean Region. 
Nat. Ord. Arorpra:.—Tribe ARISARES. 
Genus Arisarum, Targ. Tozzi ; (Schott, Prodr, Syst. Aroid., p. 20.) 
ArisaruM vulgare; foliis solitariis oblongo-hastatis obtusis apiculatis, 
pedunculo petiolo breviore v. longiore concolore v. purpureo-maculato, 
spatha fornicata brevi curva basi tumida oblique truncata lamina brevi 
cucullata obtusa v. apiculata purpurea, spadicis appendice curva apice 
globosa-clavata exserta. 
ARIsaRuM vulgare, Targ. Tozzi, Ann. Mus. Florent., vol. ii. p. 67; Kunth. 
Enum, Plant., vol. iii. p. 15; Parlatore Flor. Italian., vol. ii. p. 235; 
Reichb. Ic. Flor. Germ., vol. vii. t. 7; Durieuw Bot. Explor. Alger., 
t. Ixiv. f. 10—12., 
ARUM Arisarum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1370; Gren. and Godr. Flor, France, vol. 
iii. p. 331; Moggridge Contrib. Flor. Mentone, t. 47; Jacq. Hort. © 
Schenb., vol. ii. t. 192; Sibthorp Flor. Grac., t. 948. 
A very common Mediterranean plant, inhabiting earthy 
banks ete., from Palestine and Egypt to Portugal and 
Marocco, and reappearing in the Canary Islands (4A. subea- 
sertum, Webb), and in the Azores (4. azoricum, Schott). 
Schott has indeed made species out of no less than twelve forms 
from so many countries within the above-named limits, but the 
characters he gives are utterly unsubstantial, and the dried 
Specimens upon which he has founded them are often abso- 
lutely undistinguishable. The genus in fact consists of but 
two species, the present, which has a very wide range, and 
A. proboscideum, Savi, of the Apennines, which is ,distin- 
ag by the spathe being produced into a long twisted 
The specimens here figured are from Marocco, where the 
plant abounds, and where my attention was directed to its 
root by Mr. Hunot of Saffi, as affording a food to the natives 
MARCH Isr, 1873. 
