Lysichiton. ARACE/E. 187 



1. SCHOLLERA, Schreber. Water Star-grass. 



Perianth salverfonn, with elongated filiform tube and G-{)arted limb, the segments 

 linear-lanceolate and nearly equal. Stamens 3, on the throat oi)posite the inner 

 segments, equal ; filaments subulate ; anthers linear to oblong. Ovary oblong, 1- 

 celled, with 3 parietal placenttu ; style exserted, clavate above, slightly 3-lobed : 

 ovules many, alternate in 2 rows on the placentae : capsule membranous, oblong, 

 enclo.sed in the withered base of the perianth, 3-valved. Seeds oblong, striate. — 

 Stems submersed, from slender creeping rootstocks, slender and branching, with 

 linear grass-like loave.«?, and axillary solitary yellowish llowcrs, which alone reach the 

 surface. A single s[)ecies. 



1. S. graminifolia, Willd. Stem becoming several feet long: leaves 1 to 3 

 inches long and a line or two wide, clasping at base, obtuse : spathe herbaceous with 

 a short foliaceous apex : i)erianth tube 1 to 3 inches long, the segments of the limb 

 spreading, 3 or 4 lines long: capsule torulose, 3 or 4 lines long, 8-15-seeded. — 

 Nov. Act. Soc. Berl. iii. 438. Leptnnthus gramineits, Michx. V\. i. 25, t. 5, lig. 2 ; 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 94. Ileteranthera graminea, Vahl, Enum. ii. 45 ; Torrey, Fl. 

 N. York, ii. 313, t. 133. 



Coininon in streams in most of the Allaiitic States from Canada to Texas ; more rare westwaril. 

 In Mendocino County {G. Ii. Vaanj) ; Willamette River, Oregon, Howell. A low terrestrial form 

 sometimes occurs, growing on muddy shores. 



Order CXI. ARACE^. 



Perennial glabrous herbs, with large radical or alternate leaves, and perfect or 



visually monoecious or diceoious flowers sessile and crowded on a spadix, which is 



surrounded by a simple spathe; perianth none, or 4-G-sepaled in perfect flowers; 



fruit a berry, 1 - 4-celled, 1 - many-seeded : seeds mostly albuminous, minute. 



A large order, hut mostly tropical and scarcely represented in California. About half a dozen 

 species, of nearly as many genera, are found in the Atlantic States and northward. 



1. LYSICHITON, Schott. 

 Spathe sheathing at base, with a broad colored lamina or none, at first enveloping 

 the cylindrical spadix, which becomes long-exscrted upon a stout peduncle. Flowers 

 perfect, crowded and covering the spadix, with 4-lobed perianth, and 4 stamens 

 opposite the segments. Filaments short, flat ; anthers 2-celk'd, opening upward. 

 Ovary conical, 2-celled, 2-ovule(l : stigma depressed : ovules horizontal, orthotropous. 

 Fruit fleshy, somewhat immersed in the rhachis and coalescent. — Acaulescent 

 swamp herbs, with large leaves from a thick horizontal rootstock. A single Japanese 

 species besides the following. 



1. L. KamtSChatcensis, Schott. Leaves (1 to 2.} foot long and 3 to 10 

 inches broad) oblong-lanceolate, acute, narrowed to a short petiole or sessile : spathe 

 with a broad acute blade : peduncle very stout, shorter than the leaves (becoming G 

 to 12 inches long): spadix broader, 3 or 4 inches long. — Prodr. Aroid. 421; 

 Itothrock in Smithson. Pep. 18G7, 455. Arctiodracon Camtschnticam, Gray, Smithson. 

 Contrib. n. ser. ix. 409. 



Common in swntn]is near Fort Bragg, Mendocino County (liohudcr), and near Humboldt Bay 

 (li'ittnu), ranging northward to Sitka and also found in Kaintseliatka. May and June, in flower. 

 I'esembling the Si/mploarrpiis fcefidus, or Skunk Cabbage, of the Eastern Sutes. 



