Araceae. Arum Family. 
Herbs with basal leaves, the inflorescence sheatned by a leaf-like 
usually colored spathe. Flowers in @ dense spike (spadizx)) , Perianth of 
several scale-like segments or Wanting. Stamens 4 or 6, Ovary 2-4 chambered. 
Fruit a berry. R 
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.Perennial herb with basal leaves arising froma thick rootstock. \ 
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Leaves large, fleshy. Spathe Commonly colored, expanded above, partially \ 
Sheathing the spadix. Flowers perfect, crowded into a cylindricalyspike. 
Stamens 4, opposite the 4 perianth-segnents. Ovary £-chambered, 1 ovule in 
each chamber. Fruit a 2-seeded berry. 
de Te crrecricamm liulten GC SS John. ‘Western glamt- cabbage. Leaves narrowly 
elliptical or oblanceolate, 30-90 em. jong or more, thickish and fleshy, 
often mottled with darker areas, narrowed below to a petiole 10-20 Cme long, 
or nearly sessile; spathe appearing before the leaves, hoodlike, yellowish; 
mature spadix 5-6 cm. long, 2=2.5 cm. broad , Cylindrical, on a stout peduncle 
10-50 cm. long or more; flowers gr enish-yellow, pea stamens and 
Style included; fruit green, the berries loosely adherent and partially sunk in 
the fleshy spadix, fallinse apart readily when mature; seeds 6-7 me long, 
ovoid, flattened on the inner surfaces, (Le camtschatconse of Am, auth,) 
Cccasional in shaded maddy stream bottoms in rich soil below 5000 ft.; 
abundant in the creeks tributary to the west branch of the Priest 
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2. Acorus L. Calams. 
Plants of swampy Sround, the leaves erect, gpasslike, from horizontal 
Creeping rootstocks, partially enfolding each Other at the 
Spadix and spathe borne on a b-aneled peduncle, the spadix lateral, much 
exceeded by the leaflike spathe. Flowers perfect, densely crowded. Ferianth 
"ith 6 segments. Stamens 6. Ovary <-4 chambered. Fruit berry-like. 
base in two ranks . 
L.A. calaims Le. Sweet Flag. ——-» Roots tock trailing, 1-2 em thick, 
uneven; leaves Shottning-e+-the-basdy eD-5 Cle Wide, 50—90 cm. lons, glabrous; 
spathe leaflike) an extension oz the S-ancled peduncle or scape, keeled and 
Sheathing the base or the Spadix and extending beyond it 15-5¢ CMe3 Spadix 
305-8 Ome lon, «6-1.5 cn. taicr, tapering Somewnat; flowers densely Crowded , 
