CHAPTER III 



GREEN, GREENISH, GREENISH YELLOW 



Arrow Grass 

 Trigldchin marttima. — Family, Arrow Grass. Flowers : The 

 perianth consists of 3 sepals and 3 petals, all alike in size and color. 

 In front of each a large, sessile anther stands. Pistils 6, united 

 into a compound pistil. The fruit splits, when ripe, into 6 

 carpels. The small flowers form a terminal, long raceme, or spike, 

 the stalk or leafless scape springing from the root. Leaves narrow, 

 fleshy, growing from the base of the flower-stalk which they clasp. 



Salt marshes along the coast and in fresh bogs inland. 



Indian Turnip. Jack-in-the-Pulpit 



Arisaema triphyttum. — Family, Arum. Color, green. Leaves, 

 generally 2, on long petioles, divided above into 3 ovate, pointed, 

 stort-stalked, wavy-margined leaflets. April to June. 



The first name is derived from the bulbous root, which is 

 like a miniature turnip. Boiled, this root is rendered edible. 

 The plant is more generally known as a " Jack-in-the-pulpit," 

 the Jack being a spadix bearing stamens and pistils, without 

 perianth, covered by a single folding leaf — a spathe which 

 overtops the flower with a graceful curve, like the roofed 

 pulpits of some cathedrals. Our Jack is a welcome preacher, 

 and his text is, "Lo! the winter is past; the flowers appear 

 on the earth." He stands with his fellows in sentinel-like 

 rows along the edges of deep woods or in the lighter-leaved 

 forests. Often the overlapping spathe is prettily striped 

 with purple and white. The fruit is a gay cluster of scarlet 

 berries, ripe in June or July. 



Green Dragon Root 



A, Dracontium is a species in which the Jack grows taller than 

 his pulpit, and the single leaf is divided into 5 to 17 leaflets, all 

 springing from a common center. The leaf, on a long petiole, 



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