Be PLANTS GROWING IN WATER. 
little dweller of the ditches and watery places, the family resem- 
blance is very striking. The quarrel came about the anthers 
of the Egyptian, which haveno filaments and are sessile, and 
because of a difference in the cell division of the ovary. So 
our little plant has been separated from it. 
Linneeus tells us that the rhizomes, which we find intensely 
acrid and caustic, are made by the Laplanders into a kind of 
bread that by them is most highly relished. 3 
GOLDEN CLUB. (Pilate //,) 
Oréntium agudticum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Arum. Golden. Scentless. Mass. southward. May. 
Flowers: very small; crowded on a spadix. Leaves: on long petioles; 
floating ; oblong. Scafe: naked; slender. 
Of all the aquatics the golden club is perhaps the most curi- 
ous. It is a simple member of its family. The Arums 
have been most careful to envelope their flowers in a generous 
spathe, that they might appear before the world in a seemly 
garment. The wildcalla, Jack-in-the-pulpit, even the skunk 
cabbage, have all adhered most closely to this little conven- 
tionality. It must be something of a shock to their sense of 
propriety to have the golden club dispense with this clothing 
and flaunt itself before the world with no protection whatever 
for its poor little flowers. Whether the plant is more advanced 
in its theories and at some future time we shall see all the 
members of this lovely family without their spathes, we do not 
know. But if wishes are powerful we may sincerely hope that 
it shall not come to pass. 
Writers that are familiar with the diet of the Indians tell us 
that the plant is known to them as Taw-kee and that they find 
the dried seeds very good when boiled like peas. They eat 
the roots, also, after they have been roasted. The red man, 
with his instinct for scenting the properties of herbs, does not 
need the botanist to caution him that when raw they are very 
poisonous, 

