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in fruit ; spathe green, lanceolate, convolute its entire length, longer 

 than the spadix, the npper part withering ; berries green, 1-seeded. 

 April-]\Iay. In marshes and wet woods. 



III. ORONTIUM. 



Perennial aquatic herbs, with stout rootstocks buried in 

 the mud ; leaves petioled, oval, entire, nerved ; spathe enclos- 

 ing the spadix only in the bud, soon deciduous ; flowers per- 

 fect, yellow, covering the entire spadix ; sepals 4-6, scale-like ; 

 stamens 4-6 ; ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled, stigma sessile ; fruit 

 a green utricle. 



O. AQUATicuM L. Golden Club. Leaves ascending or floating, 

 very dark green and velvety-looking above, paler beneath, petioles 

 stout, 6-18 in. long ; scape stout, thickened above, curved, about as 

 long as the petiole ; flowers bright yellow ; utricle depressed-globose, 

 tuberculate above. March-April. In slow-flowing streams and 

 shallow' ponds. 



8. BROMELIACEiE. PINE-APPLE FAMILY. 



Herbs, mostly epiphytic or partly parasitic ; whole plant 

 scurfy ; stem rigid or flexuous ; leaves very slender, often 

 rigid ; flowers perfect, regular, spiked, panicled or solitary, 

 bracted ; sepals 3, distinct or united ; petals 3, distinct or 

 united ; stamens 6 ; ovary superior or inferior, 3-celled, pla- 

 centae central, st3de 1, stigmas 3 ; fruit fleshy or a 3-celled, 

 3-valved, many-seeded capsule. 



TILLANDSIA. 



Epiy)hytic or partly parasitic herbs ; stem rigid and erect 

 or flliform and pendulous; leaves slender, often flliform ; 

 sepals rigid ; petals spreading above, claw long; stamens fili- 

 form, hypogynous; ovary free, style slender; fruit a 3-valved, 

 many-seeded capsule. 



T. rsNKoiDKS L. Spanish Moss. Perennial, epiphytic or partly 

 parasitic ; stem filiform, brandling, gray-scurfy, with a black core 

 like horsehair, 2-10 ft. long; leaves filiform, alternate in small fas- 



