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CALADIUM VIRGINICUM. ~~ 
Virginian Caladium. Fa a 
MONCECIA POLYANDRIA. —Nar. ‘oom, AROIDE EE. 
Gen. ‘Cuar. Masts Cal. 0. . Cor. 0. “Anth. peltatee multiloculares* in spi- 
cam ad apicem spadicis_ composite... -Foem. Cal. 0. Cor..0 - Germina 
ad. basin spadicis inserta. fa Stylus 0. Bacca eniteenae polysperma — 
Willd. i J 
x Flats 
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Cataaian virginicum ; ; abet2 foliis hastato-sagittatis, spatha clonga- : 
ta sensim attenuata, curvata spadice multo longiore, basi margine 
eispy aise 
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t Arum virginicuin, Linn. Sp. Pl.'p. 484.— WILLD. Sp. Pi. v. iv. p: 484.—~ 
Pursu, Fl. N. Amer. v. ii. p- 399.—Etuiotr, Bot. v. ii. p. 630. 
Calla virginica, Micu. Fl. Am. Bor. v. ii. p. 187. 
- Root, according to Mr Evuiorr, tuberous. Lodles springing from thas root, 
a foot or a foot and more in length, and varying very much in shape, 
sometimes narrow and hastate, at other times broader, and almost eXs 
actly sagittate, membranaceous, acute at the extremity, and having: the 
two lobes at the base much lengthened, and more or less acute, or even 
acuminate ; the colour is dark green, veined, and if held between the = 
eye and the light, | the innumerable. Mit ‘semipellucid veins will be 
pats tainty stat ~o a aan SU ONARIRARRIESERRDNE qo ca aN 
” nln anti ; 
, and Spetted:= és 
, cylindrical, striated se 
“ . one or two feet clang the tower part inclosed led the cng sheathing 
erect, ovlindne stPinted, and spotted. x 
Spada 6 inches long, subterete at the base, thenc 
point and recurved, the — me 
| Eedrical Blow clothed with many 
having a nearly sessile, glandular 
stigma ; abit the middle with many densely-placed, wrinkled, peltate, 
abortive stamens ; and above them, to the extremity in my specimens 
(the summit naked in one I have received from Dr Torrey) with nu- 
merous, crowded, subhexagonal, peltate, at their summit depressed, yel- 
lowish stamens. Anthers several, just beneath the margin of the pel- 
tw, furrowed down the centre, opening with a pore at the extremity. 
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