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veloped in a sharp-pointed green spathe. Berries green. June. 

 Maine and Ontario to Florida and westward. 



31. Water Arum. Calla pahistris. Slender bog plant, the 

 leaves heart-shaped at the base, scarcely 4 in. wide on stalks 

 4-8 in. long. Spadix i in. long on stalk about equalling the 

 leaf-stalk. Spathe 1-2^ in. long, abruptly narrowed at the 

 tip. Berries red, separate. Nova Scotia to New Jersey and 

 Penn., west to Wisconsin and Iowa. Not known from Long 

 Island, or coastal New Jersey. Fig. 31. 



32. Skunk Cabbage. Spathyema foetida. (Symplocarpus 

 foetidus). Leaves many, 1-23^ ft. long, half as wide, ap- 

 pearing after the evil-smelling flowers. Spathe 3-5 in. long, 

 brownish, yellow, or purplish. Spadix i in. long. Berries 

 apparently fused. March. Nova Scotia to North Carolina, 

 and westward. Fig. 32. 



33. Individual flowers not minute, the petals well developed 

 and often showy. (Nos. 34-185.) 



Flowers very irregular and unsymmetrical (see 



Figs. 134-184) Orchids and Pickerel-weed no. 133 



Flowers regular and symmetrical (in the Day-flower, no. 51, 

 there are three blue petals, two large and one small). 



Flowers not blue no. 56 



Flowers blue (except in the Yellow Flag, No. 39) 



