408° Mr. Curzer’s Account of udigenous Vegetables, 
proaching to an ovate form; open on one fide, and bellied out 
on the oppofite ; the margin auriculated at the bafe, and fome- 
what twifted at the apex. The Spadix within the Spatha. 
The florets numerous, placed around the receptacle in an oval 
form ; and are fo compact as to appear like a folid body, thick 
fet with fmall, regular protuberances on its furface. No Ca/ix. 
Corolla four erect, very thick, narrow, obtruncated petals. 
Stamina four flattith filaments rifing from the receptacle ; 
longer 1 than the corolla. Antberes oblong. Germen Convex. 
Stile c lindrical ; ‘rather longer than the ftamina. Stigma bifid. 
E arge ; roundith ; fingle ; inclofd within the receptacle. 
The fir appearance of this fingular plant is the flower. After 
the lower ie arrived" to b ON perfection, the leaves appear at 
a fmall diitance from the flower ftall, in a conic form, very 
; “elofely rolled together. As they rife they expand ; nearly 
ovate ; fupported.on foot ftalke. The plant has no ftem. 
The globe: of flowers is nearly of the. colour of the fpatha, 
which is beautifully variegated with fcarlet and yellow. Com- 
mon in fwamps and borders of meadows. April—May, 
"This plant, which is found native no where but in North- | 
Americay has been, confidered by botanifts as a fpecies of the 
“Arum. But the florets are hermaphrodite, having each of them 
^ diftin& and perfect corolla, ftamina and piftil. It therefore be- 
longs to the firft order of this clafs, and is to be arranged among 
the aggregate lowers with a common perianthium. The fruc- 
"i iun, fo effentially differs from all the genera of this order, 
it mutt, cie be confidered as a new genus. The 
Vulgar name, e, by which it is, here, generally known, is taken 
from its ver BU and digesti fel ly rem 
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