clavate (not inclined and tapered), the leaves much narrower, 
and not produced after the flower has faded, but in perfec 
tion at the same time with it; and is on this account we 
believe different also from the Arum gramineum of La- 
marck’s Encyclopédie. 
We know of no certain figure of tenuifolium subsequent to 
the cut we have cited from Clusius’s work. 
The following is from the French of M. de Lamarck : 
Leaves appearing later than the flower, all upon the root, 
lanceolate, very like those of Viper’s Grass (Scorzonera), five 
or ten inches long, smooth, tapering a little downwards, 
striding at the base. Stem exceedingly short, enveloped 
in a membranous sheath. Spathe terminal, long, taper- 
pointed, slightly recurved. Spadix (receptacle of the flowers 
and fruit) long, slender, vermiform, taper-pointed, red 
bending forwards out of the spathe. ‘ 
The fruit, according to Clusius, white and only just 
raised out of the ground. 
Tenuifolium, gramineum (Russell), and gramineum 
(Lam.) have all of them undivided grassy leaves, though 
variously modified in each species, and are all in so far 
anomalies in the genus. 
