ARUM FAMILY. Araceas 



Golden Club ^ s i n gl e species, perennial and aquatic 



Orontium whose prominent golden yellow spadix 



aquaticum (the club) scarcely larger around than its 

 Oolden yellow j gnak gt ig thickly c l uste red with 



April-May 



the completely developed flowers of gen- 

 erally six sepals, as many golden stamens, and a pistil. 

 The spathe is undeveloped and removed from the spadix, 

 appearing like a mere leaflet on the flower-stem. Fruit 

 green and bladderlike. The long-stemmed, oblong, dark 

 green leaves float upon the water. It is a beautiful 

 aquatic plant whose flowers deserve close examination 

 under the glass, 1-2 feet high, common in the shallows 

 of ponds, from Mass., south, and generally found near 

 the coast. Name from the Syrian river Orontes. 



The stiff, swordlike, light green leaves 

 Calamus or 



Sweet Flag g lve tne P lant a rigid character. It has 

 Acorus inconspicuous flowers compactly covering 



Calamus a tapering cylindrical spadix which grows 



Yellow-green an g u i ar iy from the side of a two-edged stem 

 resembling the flat ribbonlike leaves. The 

 individual flower has a pistil, six stamens, and as many 

 sepals of a dull yellow-green color. The fruit is a small 

 berry, at first gelatinous and finally dry, but the plant is 

 mostly propagated by its stocky roots. Name/'/4%opa? 

 of unknown meaning, from Pliny. The horizontal, pun- 

 gent, and pleasantly aromatic rootstalk is a familiar com- 

 modity of the apothecary. There is a striped-leaved 

 variety. The plant grows 1-4 feet high, or more, and is 

 found beside small streams and in wet ground, from 

 Me., south, and west to Minn., Iowa, and Kan. 



YELLOW-EYED GRASS FAMILY. Xyridacece. 



Perennial herbs with narrow, grasslike leaves, and 

 perfect, regular flowers, with three spreading lobes and 

 a slender tube. Fertilized largely by insects. 

 Yellow-eyed A little swam P plant with grasslike, or 



Grass rather slender rushlike, light green leaves 



Xyrisflexuosa which twist as they grow old, and flowers 



Yellow about A inch across, of three yellow petal- 



July-August ,., _. . . ,, 



like divisions, three stamens, and as many 



sepals, the flowers proceeding from a conelike head com- 

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