CAL 'LA PALUS'TRIS. 
MARSH CALLA. 
Class. Order. 
HEPTAKDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
orontiacea:. 
Native of Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 1 foot. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1768. 
No. 1116. 
Calla is derived from the Greek kallos, beauty. 
The Calla palustris was named by Linneus, and 
it may he presumed, the great naturalist himself, 
must have been somewhat puzzled in assigning it 
a position in his artificial system. He placed it in 
the class Gynandria, and order Polygynia ; some 
of his successors removed it to Polyandria, Poly- 
gynia ; Schreber placed it in Monoecia Monandria, 
and more recently, Willdenow, in the species Plan- 
tarum, assigned it a resting place in Heptandria, 
Monogynia, although, little to the satisfaction of 
Linnean botanists. It was known to the old 
writers, and is described by Gerard and Parkinson, 
as a Dracunculus. 
Aquatic plants, have hitherto been somewhat 
neglected, even in the best gardens, for excepting 
the Water Lily, (Nymphsea alba) scarcely any are 
seen, unless it be those that Nature herself hath 
planted. The care they require is even less than 
that demanded by land plants, needing only to have 
their roots surrounded by a little clay, and then to 
he deposited in the pond they are permanently to 
inhabit. The bright green foliage of the Calla 
