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MONOECIA MONADELPHIA 



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laiiceolata^ alba^ spad J oval lanceolate/ white 



9 



ice loiigjore 



1 



longer than the spadix. 



Caladium Sagittifolium, Nutt. 2. p. 222. 

 Calla Sagittifolia, Mich. 2. p. 187* 

 Arum Sagittifolium, Pursh 2. p. 399- 



Root tuberous^ perenniaL Petioles 12 — 15 inches long. - Leaves hastate 

 cordate, abruptly acuminate, entire^ glaucous particularly on the under sur- 

 face, the lobes long, slightly divaricate, generally obtuse, and with the leaf 

 from 5 — 7 inches long- Scape about as long as the petioles. SpatTie 

 what tubular at base^ dilated at the summit, cucullate, very white* Spadix 

 longer than the tube. Female florets at base. Malefowers numerous, ex- 

 tendmg to the summit of the spadix. Anthers many (covered by a pehate 

 operculum?) Berries many seeded, red? . 



This plant is certainly neither of the species of Esculent Arum to which 

 Linneeus refers. It is smaller than the Arum Virginicum, and like the Calla 

 Ethiopica, which it somewhat resembles, merits culture as an ornamental 

 plaht^ Considering it a North-American species, I have ventured to ira- 



I have only seen 



pose on It a new name. 



In the low country of Carolina and Georgia it is rare. 

 it in the neighbourhood of Savannah, where it formeily grew abundantly 

 about a mile to the south-east of thp city, in springing, spungy soils. 



Flowers Mav — June. 



PINUS. Gen. Pl. 1451. 



Mascidi, Calyx 4- 

 phyllus. Corolla 0. 

 Stamina plurima. An- 

 therce niidae. 



Foeminei, 

 strobiliis sive 



J 



Qalyx 

 conns. 



Squama 2-flora. Corol- 

 la 0. Pi st ilium 1. Nux 



J 



ala mem!) rati acea auc- 

 ta. 



* Pimis, Sauamis 



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strohili apice iticrassa- 

 tis, a vgu losis e t um b ili- 

 calis* 



Sterile florets 



lyx 4 



Corolla 







Stamens 



Ca 



Anthers naked. 



Fertilefiorets. 

 lyx a strobilus or cone 

 the scales 2-flow'ered 



Corolla 



Nut enla 

 membrana< 



Pistil 1 



e 



a 



Scales of 

 .,.c ^-..c- thickened cd 

 the summit, angled and 

 umhilicate. 



*■ Pines, 

 the cone 



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