yii. 



ARUM MACULATUM. 



Common Arum, Czickow-Pint, or Wake-Robin. 



Class XXI. MoNfficiA.— O/Y/e/- VII. Polyandria. 



Nat. Old. Aroide.e. 



Gen. Char. Spaihe of one leaf, convolute at the base. 

 Perianth 0. Spadix with germens at the base. Sta- 

 mens (sessile) near the middle of the spadix, which is 

 naked above. Berry one-celled, many-seeded. 



Spec. Char. Leaves all radical, hastato-sagittate, lobes 

 deflexed. Spadix club-shaped, obtuse, shorter than 

 the spathe. 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek upov. 



^ Arum vulgare. i5fmAmPma^, 195. Gerard. Em. 8M. 

 I-atin -j Arum. Raii Synopsis, 2()6. 



I Arum Maculatum. Lin. Sp. PL 1 370, 

 French.. . . Arum ; Gouet ; Pied de Veau ; Gouet Tachete. 



Italian Aro ; laro ; Gicaro ; Pie Vitellino. 



Spanish Aro ; Aro Manchado. 



German Aron ; Aaronswurzel ; Kalbsfuss ; Magenwurzel. 



I>ntch Aron ; Kalfsvoet. 



Danish Dansk Ingefer. 



Description.— The root is tuberiferous, about the size of a 

 pigeon's egg, furnished with numerous slender fibres, brownish 

 externally, white within, fleshy, and yields a milky juice. The 

 leaves spring immediately from die neck of the tuber, they are 

 large, halbert-shaped, or somewhat sagittate, and very entire ; 

 their surface is smootli, shining, dark green, veined, and often 

 marked with dark spots. The flower, which is remarkable for its 

 form, is enclosed in an ample, concave, convolute spathe, erect, 

 pointed, pale green, and sometimes spotted witliin. The spadix 

 is simple, shorter than the spathe, club-shaped, and of a pur- 

 plish or buff colour at the extremity, the lower part bearin"- 



