BROWNISH AND VARIEGATED FLOWERS 
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus fcetidus) . 
February to April. 
Arum family. 
A low perennial with leaves sometimes two feet long. The 
small flowers are packed on a spadix with hood (spathe), vari- 
ously colored (green-purple-yellow-brown) and mottled. The 
tiny perfect flowers have no petals, four sepals, four stamens 
and a pistil, the ovary embedded in the spadix. Wet ground. 
(Greek signifies connected fruit.) 
Groundnut. WHd Bean (Apios tuberosa) . Pulse family. 
July to September. 
A vine with papilionaceous purplish-brown flowers in clusters 
on long stalks, odorous. The leaves have five to seven pointed 
leaflets, without teeth. Root-stalk like a string of beads. 
Shady places. The cut, with the flowers separated to show 
their arrangement, gives a very inadequate idea of this closely 
packed, decorative cluster. Greek means pear, referring to 
the tubers. 
GROUNDNUT 
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