JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT 



The Golden-Club, found in shallow water, is blood 

 brother both to the Skunk-Cabbage and to Jack-in- 

 the-Pulpit, but its habitat is not so extended as theirs. 

 It dwells in New England and southward along the 

 coast. So far as I know, it rarely crosses the Alle- 

 ghanies and is not found in the Middle West. 



The enclosing and protecting spathe, which is a 

 marked characteristic of the Arums, in the Golden- 

 Club has virtually disappeared, becoming a mere 

 leaflet on the flower-stem. The summit of the flower- 

 stem becomes a golden-yellow spadix, crowded with 

 tiny blossoms each with six sepals, six golden stamens, 

 and a pistil. The long-petioled, oblong leaves mostly 

 float, though sometimes they stand erect. 



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JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT. INDIAN-TURNIP ^ 



Arisdma triphyllum 



AriscEtna, from aris, a kind of arum and aima, blood; 

 alluding to the spotted leaves of some species of the genus. 



Perennial herb with an acrid corm, sending up a simple 

 scape sheathed with the petioles of the compound, veiny 

 leaves. Rich woods. Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Min- 

 nesota and Kansas. Abundant in northern Ohio. April, 

 May. 



Corm. — Violently acrid, fiery to the taste, turnip-shaped, 

 bearing many fibrous roots. 



Scape. — Simple, twelve to eighteen inches high. 



Leaves. — Mostly two, divided into three elMptical-ovate, 

 pointed, veiny leaflets. 



Flowers. — Monoecious or dioecious, small; both sterile 

 and fertile borne on a spadix, with a hooded spathe, green, 

 or green and purple, striped. 



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