. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 4. ARUM FAMILY. 445. 1. Spathyema foetida (L.) Raf. Skunk Cab- bage. Fig. 1117. Dracontium foetidum L. Sp. PI. 967. 1753. Spathyema foetida Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. Symplocarpus foetidus Nutt. Gen. 1: 106. 1818. Leaves numerous, in large crowns, i°-3° long, often 1° wide, strongly nerved, abruptly acute at the apex, thin, entire, their petioles
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 4. ARUM FAMILY. 445. 1. Spathyema foetida (L.) Raf. Skunk Cab- bage. Fig. 1117. Dracontium foetidum L. Sp. PI. 967. 1753. Spathyema foetida Raf. Med. Rep. (II.) 5: 352. 1808. Symplocarpus foetidus Nutt. Gen. 1: 106. 1818. Leaves numerous, in large crowns, i°-3° long, often 1° wide, strongly nerved, abruptly acute at the apex, thin, entire, their petioles deeply channeled. Root- stock thick, descending, terminating in whorls of fleshy fibers; spathe preceding the leaves, erect, 3'-6' high, 1'-3' in diameter at the base, convolute, .firm; purple- brown to greenish yellow, often mottled, its short scape usually subterranean, spadix about 1' in diameter in flower, greatly enlarging and sometimes 6' in diameter in fruit; mature seeds 4 '-6" long. In swamps and wet soil, Nova- Scotia to Ontario and . Minnesota, North Carolina and Iowa. Skunk- weed. Meadow, Swamp- or Clumpfoot-cabbage. Pole-cat weed. Polk-weed. Collard. Fruit ripe , 5. ORONTIUM L. Sp. PL 324. 1753. Aquatic herbs, with thick rootstocks buried in the mud, oblong-elliptic nerved leaves without a distinct midvein, and slender terete scapes terminated by a cylindric spadix. Spathe enclosing the spadix when very young, soon parting and remaining as a sheathing bract at its base, or falling away. Flowers perfect, bright yellow, covering the whole spadix. Sepals 4-6, scale-like, imbricated upon the ovary (lower flowers commonly with 6, upper with 4). Stamens as many as the sepals; filaments linear, wider than the anthers, abruptly narrowed above; anthers small, with two diverging sacs opening by oblique slits. Ovary partly imbedded in the axis of the spadix, depressed, obtusely angled, i-celled; ovule solitary, half-anatropous; stigma sessile. Fru
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