Order 131.— ARACE.E. 069 



6 — 12' long, i as wide, on petioles as long as the scapes. Scapes many from the 

 same root, 8 — 15' long. Spathe closely involving the spadix, green, 3 to 5' long, 

 lanceolate, wavy on the margin. Spadix slender, acuminate, shorter than the 

 spathe, its compact stamens G-sided. Fr. a cluster of green berries inclosed in 

 the base of the spathe alter the upper part of both spathe and spadix has decayed. 

 Jh. (Arum, L. Calla, Bw. Lecontia, Cooper, Renssekeria, Beck, Caladium, 

 Lindl.) 

 2 P. glauca Feay (M S.). Acaulescent ; lvs. ovate-hastate, acute or sbort-acu- 

 urinate, lobes broad and obtuse at end ; scape as long as the leaves ; spathe invol- 

 ute, entire, gradually evolved and widened above, acuminate, white, spadix much 

 shorter; berries red, 1 -seeded. — Maritime parts of S. Car. and Ga. (Feay, Pond.) 

 A smooth, glaucous plant with 1 to 3 radical lvs., and one or moro slender scapes 

 12 to 20' high. Lvs. 5 to 7' long, with large bise lobes, and a vein running 

 close to the margin. Spathe about 3' long, spadix about 2'. Fruit smaller than 

 in No. 1. Seeds without albumen, a3 in that species. May, Jn. (Caladium 

 glaucum Ell.) 



3. RICHAR'DIA, Kth. Egyptian Calla. Spathe involute at base, 

 spreading, maresccnt; spadix covered with flowers, fertile below, stam- 

 iriate above; anthers oo, free, sessile, 2-celled, on a broad connectile; 

 ovarie3 incompletely 3-celled, intermixed with sterile filaments; berry 

 few-seeded, seeds suspended. — If. Herb with a thick rhizome, tall, erect, 

 radical leal-stalks, and scapes with a large, white spathe. 



R. iEthiopica. A line, showy plant of the green-house and parlors. Lvs. 

 2 to 4f high, hastate-cordate, thick, smooth, on sheathing petioles. Scape rather 

 taller, bearing a cylindrie spadix within the large, involved, milk-whito spatho. 

 ■f- Capo Good Hope. 



4. CAL'LA, L. (Probably altered from kclXoc, beautiful.) Spathe 

 ovate, spreading, persistent, colored; spadix covered with flowers with 

 no perianth ; filaments slender, with 2-celled anthers, encircling each 

 ovary; ovary 1 -celled, 5 or G-ovuled, the upper often abortive; berry 

 red, depressed, few-seeded. — % An aquatic herb with a prostrate, 

 creeping rhizome, cordate lvs. and a broad white, open spathe. 



C. paMstria L. — An interesting plant in shallow water?, Penn. to N". Eng., "Wis. 

 and Brit. Am. Lvs. 2 to 3' long, nearly as wid?, cuspidate, long-petioled, smooth 

 and entire. Scape thick, 4 to G' hi^h. Spath3 clasping at the base, recurved, 

 with a twisted cusp, much longer than tho oblong, cylindric spadix. Jl. — Tho 

 rhizoma is acrid, but Linnaeus tells us that the Laplanders extract a wholesonw 

 breadstuff from it 



5. SYMPLQCAR'PUS, Salisb. (Gr. oviiTrkotn), connection, naprtoc^ 

 fruit.) Spathe shell-form, ventricous ; spadix oval, covered with perfect 

 flowers; perianth deeply 4-partcd, segments cucullate, cuncate, trun- 

 cate, persistent, becoming thick and spongy ; berries globous, 1 -seeded, 

 imbedded in the spadix, and with the fleshy perianth forming a kind 

 of sorosis; seed without albumen. — 71 Aquatic, acauleseent herbs. 



B. foetidua Nutfc. Skcnk Cabbage. Lvs. cordate-oval, acute ; tpadix subglob- 

 ous, preceding tho leaves. — A common plant, Can., N. Eng., Mid. and W. States, 

 growing in swamps, meadows and ditches, renowned for its odor, which is 

 •scarcely less offensive than that of tho animal whoso name it bears. Early in 

 spring, the swelling spatho is seen emerginsr first from the ground or water, more 

 or less covered with purplish spot?, it3 edges partly infolded, and its point in- 

 curved. It incloses tho spadix, which is oval, covered with flowers of a dull 

 purple. The leaves, which arise after tho flowers, are of a bright green, 

 numerous, becoming very largo (often 20' by 12). (Pothoa foatida Mx. Ictodes, 

 Bw.) 



