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134 Symplocarpus angustispatha. ia | 
_ The whole plant is more slender than the common one. The 
root is somewhat smaller. The ‘spathe is long, narrow, purple, — 
entirely without specks or spots, and of a beautiful shining dark 
purple colour. The spathes of the specimen not “here figured, 
were narrower than those of plate 11; and the smallest of them is 
separated i in fig. 8, plate 14. The young: convoluted leaves and sti- » 
pules are deeply tinged with purple, and somewhat striped with 
this hue. The spadix is supported: by a a very long. peduncle; is 
* half the size of that in the 8. feetida, and ‘of. a light umber colour ; 
in the common one it has an ochroleucous hue. The’ flowers are 
also smaller than in the Skunk-cabbage. The fruit I have not yet 
MEDICAL PROPERTIES. 
This variety has the same rank, alliaceous odour as the com- 
mon Skunk-cabbage ; and its sensible properties are the same. — Con- 
ane its medicinal virtues wall be found not to differ. - 
Fig. i. Is a representation of Symplocarpus feetida in lowek The 
drawing made from a specimen procured i in the first week 
of Ape ME & € ; pe 
