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THE FLORA. 



COHORT V. 



SPADICIFLORiE, OR THE APETALOUS ENDOGENS. 



Order CXXXI. ARACEJE. Aroids. 



Chiefly herbs with a fleshy rootstock of corm ; leaxes sometimes net- veined 

 flowers mostly without calyx or corolla, arranged on a spadix ; 

 stamens few or many, hypogynous, very short ; anthers turned outwards 

 ovarrj free; stigmas sessile; fruit a dry or juicy berry, and the 

 seeds with or without albumen. Growing in wet places. 



Fi%. 68S. Wild Calla {Calla palustris), a leaf, and a spadix of flowers, with its spathe (5). 

 Fig. 639. The same enlarged. Fig. 640. A flower enlarged. Fig. 641. One of tlie berries cut, 

 sliowing the 6 cells. Fig. 642. Golden Club {Orontium aqunticum); its spadix (s) is without 

 a sjiathe. 



Analysis of the Geiiera, 



* Spadix enveloped in a spathe 2 



Spadix destitute of a spathe. Sepals 4-6 d 



2 Flowers covering only the base of the spadix. Perianth 0, . . .a 

 2 Flowers covering the whole spadix, monoecious. Perianth 0....b 

 2 Flowers covering the whole spadix and perfect c 



