38 FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 
into a cup-shaped cover for the rapidly developing green berries which 
later turn a brilliant scarlet. The golden-club (Orontium aquaticum) 
dispenses with the spathe as soon as its bright yellow flowers open, the 
former remaining only as a withered bract at the base. 
Fic, 33.—The jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisama triphyllum) showing hooded spathes. (From 
Macmillan’s ‘‘Minnesota Plant Life,” by courtesy of the author.) 
In addition to the native aroids mentioned above there are numer- 
ous handsome tropical exotics which commonly grace our greenhouses. 
