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been published. of it... MicHaux found it to extend from: New 
i England to Virginia i in North America, and Exuiorr tells u us - : 
ee it abounds in Carolina and Georgia. s 
It is singular that no modern author. should have arranged 
7 : ae plant with the Caladia, with which it entirely accords, and: . 
to one species of which (C. sagitt ifolium) it has a very close affi- — 
nity, differing principally i in the form. and colour of the spatha, 
“ovate at the extremity, and white in the sagittifolium.. Oc- . 
‘casionally, indeed, the. apex of: the spadix is naked as in Arum, 
_ but then the anthers are quite | different in structure, preciscly _ 
arconiling with those of Caladium. Py a 
Our figure. was taken’ from a plant which Niivdiod i in ‘he 
= Liverpool Botanic Garden in May 1825, and which Was sent _ 
from North America dy Mr. -BRapeury. - — ‘isa a duindy spe 
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