346 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Ferip Symptocarrus. Swamp Cabbage. Skunk Cabbage. 
Root perennial, with fleshy fibres from a thick truncate rhizoma. Aerial me none. 
appearing after the spadix has flowered, at first aie wing at length cor- 
date-oval, becoming very lar - eo near 2 fect lon ng, and a en r more in with), en en- 
tire, smooth ; s¢i; oa a expanding, ovate-oblong, acuminate, age spatulate. Spathe 
oe spotted with purplish -brown, green, and yellow. ‘spadiz about an inch in diam- 
eter, on a short thick pedunc 7s compact, appearing tessellated. Sepals dark- 
brown, fleshy, cuneate, Grease. the apex and margins inflected. Anthers slightly ex- 
serted. Style Ebene wen above | the sepals. Fruit fleshy, coflesced with the — 
of the perreicnt 5 pal mbedded in the surface of the receptacle. Seeds globos 
about the of a Sounbia eee en ea 
; lo ve mound: Canada to Virginia. FI. Feb.-March. Fr. Sept. 
Obs. bb a AY known by its skunk-like odor, when 
woun Is qui wet. meadows, and st ieee 
grounds in the middle ant onthe States. It is a worthless 
and its bunches of large wecigy are e SamnCiennly tinesightly to compl the 
attention of the neat farm 
3. AO’ORUS, L. Swzer Frac. 
. a@, privative, and Kore, the pupil of the eye ; a supposed remedy for sore eyes.] 
rfect, gros a proper spathe, crowded on a sessile sub-cylin- 
ae Pe an merges from the side of a scape which closely re- 
sembles the ae Sepa 6, concave. men 
of the se : aaehee reniform 1-celled, transversely dehiscent. Ovary 
trigo ; ovules nw 7 “re ulous ; stagma a minute. 
nestling in a gelatinous matter 
i A, Cal’amus, L. Scape leaf-like, extending much above the lateral 
spadix. 
Reep Acorvs. Calamus. Sweet Flag. 
Fr. Acore odorant. Germ. Der Kalamus. Span. Acoro Calamo. 
Root. perennial, i coarse verticillate fibres from a horizontal renin pungently aro 
rhizoma. stem none. Leaves radical, ensiform- linear, 2-3 bey bees re 
half an inch ou asada an inch wide, smooth. as long as the hited uch Te= 
sembling them, somewhat on aout the peas Spadiz 2-8 tneliog: ac terete, 
ae to an obtuse Sepals greenish, cuneate-oblong, keeled, with scarious 
heneat mata about springs, &c. Fl.May-—June, Fr. Sept. 
Obs. A na f Europe and Asia as well as some of this 
untry. The. viele cnet is warmly aromatic—especially the creeping’ 
rhizoma ; affd that subterraneous portion is deservedly popular for its. 
medicinal virtues. nm some Ws, however, in el 
t had ossession to such an extent as 
to me some’ 
of a nuisance,—and a difficult aoe: vache of. Seceeal be well 
therefore, in introducing it, to plant it ee 
