JHE STUDY OF BOTANY. as 
EXAMPLE XII. 
A’'RUM. (Cuckow-pint,) : 
Or Wake-robin; or Lords. and Ladies. Not unfrequent in 
stiff soils. It generally grows in rough shady places, and at 
hedge bottoms. It flowers in May. . . 
There is something so very peculiar-and unusual -in the 
structure of this plant, that we find ourselves at a lofs how to 
set about the investigation of it. . What shall we call this long 
purplish substance which stands upright within the sheathing 
conical Calyx? We remove the Sheath to inspect the lower ~ 
part, and there we find this purple substance surrounded at its 
base by a number of Germens. It must therefore be a sort 
of a Fruit-stalk, or a Receptacle of an unusual length. Ona 
further examination we observe a number of hair-like fibres, 
or threads, but without any Anthers, and between these and 
the Germens, we perceive a number of Anthers without any 
~ Filaments. 
As the Anthers are numerous, we tes to the Clafs Poly- ; 
andria, and the Germens being more than 6, we look in the 
Order Polygynia. Zosteraand Arum are the only Genera in 
which the existence of a Blofsom is not mentioned; and as 
our plant shews nothing like a Blofsom, it must be one or 
other of these. The conical Sheath of one Leaf, and indeed 
all the other circumstances mentioned, assure us that it is an 
Arum. The Generic description, and the subjoined observa- 
- tions, fully explain the structure of this wonderful and extra- 
ordinary plant. The shape of the leaves accords with the 
Specific Character, and we pronounce it to be the Arum 
maculatum, 
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SxaMpLe XIII. 
LA'MIUM. (Archanrgel,) 
=: Or White or Red Deadnettle. It grows every. where upon 
ditch-banks, amongst rubbish, and i in orchards, 
Upon opening the Blofsom we observe 4 Stamens, and as 2 - 
of the Stamens are considerably longer than the other two, we 
expect to find it in the Clafs Didynamia. After reading. the 
introduction to that Clafs, we have no doubt of having clafsed 
