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FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 



into a cup- shaped cover for the rapidly developing green berries which 

 later turn a brilliant scarlet. The golden- club [Orontium aquaticum) 

 dispenses with the spathe as soon as its bright yellow flowers open, the 

 former remaininij: only as a withered bract at the base. 



Fig. 33. — The jack-in-the-pulpit (Arlnii ina tiipli(jUii)ii) showing hooded spathes. (From 

 Macmillan's ■Minnesota Plant Life," by courtesy of the author.) 



In addition to the native aroids mentioned above there are numer- 

 ous handsome tropical exotics which commonly grace our greenhouses. 



