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AND HORTICULTURIST. 



case of plants belonging to the Arum family, of 

 which the common Richardia, or Calla lily, is a 



and the flower stem is seen to be nothing but a 

 mass of leaves coiled up so that all trace of the 



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ANTHURIUM SCIIERZERIAXUM MAXIMUM. 



Striking example. In that case the usual white I original leaf stalks of each leaf is nearly lost, 

 spathe often is half as green as in a real leaf, | In the plant here illustrated the spathe is scarlet 



