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MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
Ianceolata, alba, spad- oval lanceolate, white, 
ice longiore. longer than the spadix. 
Caladium Sagittifolium, Nutt. 2. p. 222.' 
Calla Sagittifolia, Mich. 2. p. 187* 
Arum Sagittifolium, Pursh 2. p. 399. 
Root tuberous, perennial. *Petioles 12 — 15 inches long. Leaves hastate 
cordate, abruptly acuminate, entire, glaucous particularly on the under sur- 
face, the lobes long, slightly divaricate, generally obtuse, and with the leaf 
from 5—7 inches long. Scape about as long as the petioles. Spathe some- 
what tubular at base, dilated at the summit, cucullate, very white. Spadix 
longer than the tube. Female florets at base. Male flowers numerous, ex- 
tending to the summit of the spadix. Anthers many (covered by a peltate 
operculum?) Berries many seeded, red? 
This plant is certainly neither of the species of Esculent Arum to which 
Linnaeus refers. It is smaller than the Arum Virginicum, and like the Calla 
Ethiopica, which it somewhat resembles, merits culture as an ornamental 
plant. Considering it a North- American species, I have ventured to im- 
pose on it a new name. 
In the low country of Carolina and Georgia it is rare. I have only seen 
it in the neighbourhood of Savannah, where it formerly grew abundantly 
about a mile to the south-east of the city, in springing, spungy soils. 
Flowers May — June. 
PINUS. Gen. Pl, 1451. 
Mas culi. Calyx 4- 
phyllus. Corolla 0. 
Stamina plurima. An- 
therce nudge. 
Foeminei. Calyx 
strobilus sive conus. 
Squama 2-flora. Corol- 
la 0. Pistillum 1. Nux 
ala membranacea auc- 
ta. 
* Pinus. Squamis 
sir obi li apice mcrassa- 
tis, angulosis el umbili- 
catis. 
Sterile forets. Ca- 
lyx 4-leaved. Corolla 
0. Stamens numerous. 
Anthers naked. 
Fertile Jlorets. Ca- 
lyx a strobilus or cone, 
the scales 2-flowered. 
Corolla 0. Pistil 1. 
Nut enlarged by a 
membranaceous wing. 
* Pines. Scales of 
the cone thickened at 
the summit, angled and 
umbilicate. 
