124 Symplocarpus foetida. 
Kalm. it. 3. p. 47. Gron. Virg. 141, et 186. Houttuyn. Lin. Pf. Syst. 10. p.151. Pursh. Fl. Am. 
Sep. vol. 2. p. 398. Nuttall, Gen. Am, Plants, p. 105. Barton’s Prodr. Fl. Ph. p. 26. Thatcher’s 
Disp. ed. 2d. p. 150. Coxe’s Disp. 3d, ed. p. 210. 
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SYMPLOCARPUS, - 
(Salisbury. ) 
Spatha ventricose-ovate, acuminate. Spadix roundish, covered with hermaphrodite flowers. Calix deeply 
4-parted, persistent, segments cucullate, truncate, becoming thick and spongy. Petals 0. Style 
pyramidal, 4-sided; Stigma — minute. Seeds. solitary, immersed in the spongy receptacle. 
4 “Nuttall. 
Cal. Communis, Spatha atro-purpurea, acuminata, ad poeta convoluta, citissime marcescens et contabes- 
eens. Partialis quadriphyllus, foliolis crassis succulentis, fuscis, brevibus, acuminatis, excavatis, 
inflexis, longitudine styli, persistentibus. 
Cor. nulla. Spadix ovato-orbiculatus, pedunculatus, spatha dimidio brevior, staminibus foliolisque calicis 
undique obsitus, per maturitatem in limbum procumbens. 
Stam, Filamenta quatuor, erecta, longitudine styli persistentia.. Antherz flave erectz. 
Pist. Germen rotundum infra stylum in spadice reconditum. Stylus fuscus, conicus. Stigma obtusum, 
vix perceptibile: ‘ : . x 
Sem. Bacca unica, carnosa, globosa, monosperma, extus fusca: in eaella fungosa spadicis plerumque 
octo vel novem inveniendz. (Bart. FI. Vir.) 
Symprocanrus fetida; acaulis; foliis ovatis cordatis, spadice, subgloboso. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. 2. p. 186. 
“ Stemless and subaquatic; leaves very large, strongly veined and entire, preceded by conspicuous 
sheathing stipules; scapes radical, appearing before the leaves; spatha ‘discoloured ; calix, style, 
. and filaments persistent, enlarging with the spongy receptacle. Root verticillately fibrous, tran- 
Se Leaves smooth and green, ovate, cordate, enlarging, protected by large ‘glaucous, spathulate- 
gu form, veinless bractes. Spatha ovoid, roundish, cucullate, obliquely acuminate, point coarc- 
te, plaited, involutely auriculate at the base, thick and spongy, livid purple, blotched and spot- 
ted with pale-green. Spadix* pedunculate, simple, ‘almost spherical. Bractes none. Flowers 
tessellately imbricate, adnate. Calix 4-parted, divided to the base, segments cucullate, compres- 
sed at the apex, emarginated, at length becoming very thick. Petals none. Stamina 4, opposite 
the divisions of the calix ; filaments subulate, flat; anthers exserted, short, oblong-oval, 2-celled. 
‘ “Style thick, quadrangular, acuminated; stigma minute, pubescent, shorter than the stamina. 
