RED WILD FLOWERS 
foot. The insignificant and inconspicuous yellow 
flowers are clustered around the base of a slender green 
club or spadix, which is seated within a deep, leaf-like 
cornucopia whose broad, tapering tip is gracefully 
curved over the erect, protruding head of the green 
“Jack.” This leafy formation is known as the spathe, 
and answers to the white floral part of the familiar 
Calla Lily. It is green, with darker green or purple 
stripes, and is seated upon the end of a stout stem, 
which springs from between the sheaths of the leaf 
stems. In the fall, the short, stiff, club-like clusters of 
bright scarlet, berry-like fruit are very attractive. Jack 
is found commonly in rich, moist woods and thickets 
from Nova Scotia to Florida, and west to Ontario, 
Minnesota, Kansas, and Louisiana. 
SKUNK CABBAGE 
Symplocarpus foétidus. Arum Family. 
Time and again it has been found convenient for 
esthetic purposes to disregard the comely Skunk 
Cabbage in reckoning on the first or earliest of our 
spring wild flowers to blossom. But the Hepatica 
and its host of admirers must content themselves 
with at best second place, as the first honour is honestly 
earned by the former flower. It is very frequently 
found in full bloom, with yellow pollen, in February, 
and it is not at all uncommon to record its occurrence 
in January. It is not generally known that the low- 
twisted, one-sided, hood-like and purple stained spikes, 
which pierce the muck and ooze, or even water and 
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