. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 463 BOTANT. Some of the species have been used in medicine, among which are the Indian Turnip (Arismma), and Sweet Flag (AeonLs). Cidocami antiquorum, a large plant of the tropics, is there grown for its fleshy farinaceous corm. It is grown with us for its fine foliage. Richa/rdia Afiicana, the so-called Calla-lily, or Ethiopian Lily, a na- tive of the Cape of Good Hope, is a common green-house plant. Symplocarpus /(etidus, the Skunk-cabbage of the Northern United States, is remarkable for the mephitic odor of its bruised leaves. Amorphophallus T
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 463 BOTANT. Some of the species have been used in medicine, among which are the Indian Turnip (Arismma), and Sweet Flag (AeonLs). Cidocami antiquorum, a large plant of the tropics, is there grown for its fleshy farinaceous corm. It is grown with us for its fine foliage. Richa/rdia Afiicana, the so-called Calla-lily, or Ethiopian Lily, a na- tive of the Cape of Good Hope, is a common green-house plant. Symplocarpus /(etidus, the Skunk-cabbage of the Northern United States, is remarkable for the mephitic odor of its bruised leaves. Amorphophallus Titanum, an Aroid discovered in 1878 by Beccari in Figs. 350-3.—Illustbations op Lemh^. 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 Bessey, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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