RED OR REDDISH PURPLE 1 



Indians are said to have cooked it for food. 

 They also cooked and ate the berries. 



The color of the hood and its markings is 

 very variable, sometimes light green with light 

 markings, and sometimes dark with purple 

 stripes. I was interested, one spring, to see if 

 the light green spathes really did inclose male 

 flowers and the dark ones female, as some 

 authorities think probable. I gathered, one day, 

 about thirty-six specimens. Of twenty dark 

 ones, fourteen were pistillate and six staminate. 

 Of sixteen light ones, five were pistillate and 

 eleven staminate. The majority seem to bear 

 out the supposition. Another interesting mat- 

 ter came to my attention from the examination 

 of the specimens. Sixteen plants each had two 

 leaves, and of these fifteen were mostly pistillate 

 and the other one had about as many staminate 

 as pistillate blossoms. Of twenty specimens 

 with one leaf, sixteen were mainly staminate 

 and four pistillate. Later observations tend to 

 show that the two-leaved specimens usually have 

 pistillate flowers, and the one-leaved staminate. 



Jack-in-the-pulpit loves rich, we"t woods, and 

 extends as far west as Minnesota and eastern 

 Kansas. 



