. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 290 THE KINDS OF PLANTS the pistillate with 1 sessile ovary which ripens into a red few-seeded berry. Plants of spring or early summer, in rich woods. Tuber very pungent, often used in domestic medicine. A. triphyllum, Torr. Jach-in-tlie-Pulpit. Common Indian Turnip. Fig. 226. Leaves usually 2, each bearing 3 oblong-elliptic pointed leaflets : spathe purple-striped, curving over the spadix. A Drac6iitium, Schott. Dragon-roof. Leaf usually 1, with 7-11 narrow oblong leaflets: spathe greenish, shorter than the spadix. 2. SYMPLOCARPUS. Skunk Cabba
. Botany, an elementary text for schools. Botany. 290 THE KINDS OF PLANTS the pistillate with 1 sessile ovary which ripens into a red few-seeded berry. Plants of spring or early summer, in rich woods. Tuber very pungent, often used in domestic medicine. A. triphyllum, Torr. Jach-in-tlie-Pulpit. Common Indian Turnip. Fig. 226. Leaves usually 2, each bearing 3 oblong-elliptic pointed leaflets : spathe purple-striped, curving over the spadix. A Drac6iitium, Schott. Dragon-roof. Leaf usually 1, with 7-11 narrow oblong leaflets: spathe greenish, shorter than the spadix. 2. SYMPLOCARPUS. Skunk Cabbage. Leaves and flowers arising from a strong rootstock, the Ivs. very large and appearing after the spathes : fls. perfect, each with 4 sepals, 4 stamens and single ovary which is sunk in the fleshy spadix: fruit made up of the fleshy spadix with imbedded fleshy seeds: spathe pointed and arching, in- closing the spadix. Common in wet meadows in the north- eastern states. S, foetidus, Salisb. Spathes purple, arising in the earliest spring: leaves very large (often 2 ft. long), simple and entire, ovate, in tufts. The tufted leaves and fetid odor give the plant the name of skunk cabbage. 3. RICHARDIA. Calla Lily. Leaves several from each short rootstock, their peti- oles sheathing the flower-scape: flowers naked and diclin- ous, the stamens above and the 3-loculed ovaries below on the spadix: spathe large and showy, the top flaring and the base rolling about the spadix, Several species are ^^L' j) ^—A^ cultivated, but the following is the only common one: R. Africana, Kunth. Calla or Calla lily of gar- dens. Fig. 427. Leaf-blades broadly arrow-shaped, simple and entire, cross-veined, glossy: spathe white and wax-like. Cape of Good 427. Richardiii Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work
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