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.. Arum rracicum. Iratran Arum. 
Classand: Order. 
: Manecia PoOLYANDRIA. 
Generic Character. 
__ Spatha monophylla, cucullata. Spadix supra nudus, 
inferne femineus, medio stamineus. 
| Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Arum ztalicum + acaule, foliis albo-venosis hastato-sagit- 
tatis: lobis auriculatis divaricatis, spadice clavato 
spatha breviore. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 484. Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 5. p. 309. Pers. Syn. 2. p. 574. n. 18. 
Arum italicum ; acaule, foliis-sagittato-hastatis : auriculis 
divaricatis, spadice ree luteolo. Lam. Encyel 3. 
p. 9.—et De Cand. Flore frang. 3. p. 152. 
RUM italicum ; foliis hastatis acutis, petiolis longissimis 
spatha maxima erecta. Mill. Dict. 
Arum venis albis italicum maximum. Tourn. Inst. 158. 
Arum venis albis. Bauh. Pin. 195. Raj-Hist. 1209. 
Arum maculatum, y. Mart. Mill. Dict. | 
Arum folio lato atro-viridi margine albicante cincto, sparsis 
maculis albis variegato. Sabbati Hort. rom. 2. t. 75. 
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Arum italicum has been frequently confounded with the 
RUM maculatum, or common Cuckow-pint; yet, if any 
tolerable figure had ever been given of it, this mistake could 
hardly have been made. The whole plant is nearly double 
the size; the leaves are not only larger and veined with 
White, but the posterior lobes go off at nearly right angles 
from the footstalk, or are hastate, not sagittate; the spathe 
'S very large, of a yellowish pale green colour, at first erect, 
afterwards rolled back at the point; germens nearly glo- 
ular, aggregate, sessile, occupying about an inch of Sa 
