Lystckiton. ARACE.E. 187 



1. SCHOLLERA, Schreber. Water Star-grass. 

 Perianth salverform, with elongated filiform tube and 6-parted limb, the segments 

 linear-lanceolate and nearly equal. Stamens 3, on the throat opposite the inner 

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

 celied with 3 parietal placent^B ; style exserted, clavate above, slightly 3-lobed : 

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

 enclosed 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 leaves, and axillary solitary yeUowish flowers, which alone reach the 

 surface, A single species. 



Stem becoming several feet long : leaves 1 to 3 



1 S. graminifolia, Willd. Stem becoming several feet long: leaves i to .5 

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

 a Jho t f^ceous apex : perianth tube 1 to 3 inches long, the segments of the imb 

 Spreading, 3 or 4 lines long : capsule torulose, 3 or 4 lines long, 8- lo-seeded. - 

 Nov. Act. Soc. Berl. iii. 438. Leptanthus grammeus Michx. Fl. i. 2o *_ 5' ^o- - , 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 94. Heteranthera gramuiea, Vahl, Enum. n. 45, lone}, J^l. 



sometimes occurs, growing on muddy shores. 



Order CXI. ARACE^. 



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

 usually monoTcious or dioecious flowers sessile and crowded on a spadix, which is 

 surrounded by a simple spathe; perianth none, or 4-6-sepaled in perfect flowers; 

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



A lar-^e order, but 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-exserted 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-celled, opening upward. 

 Ovary conical, 2-celled, 2-ovuled : stigma depressed : ovules horizontal, orthotropous. 

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

 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^ feet long and 3 to 10 

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

 Avith a broad acute blade : peduncle very stout, shorter than the leaves (becoming 6 

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

 Eothrock in Smithson. Eep. 1807,455. A rctiodraam Camtschaticiim, Gray, Smithson. 

 Contrib. n. ser. ix. 409. 



Common in swamps near Fort Bragg, Mendocino County {Bolan<lr.r\ ^m\ near Humboldt Bay 

 (Rattan), vw^mc, northward to Sitka and also found in Kamtschatka. May and June, in tlowei. 

 Resembling tlie %jmplocarpus fmlidus, or Skunk Cabbage, of the Eastern States. 



