. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 146. Arum Italicum (X K). 4. PalsBStinum, Boiss. {A. sdnetum, Hort.). Black Calla. Solomon's Lily. Lvs. cordate-hastate, 6 in. broad across the base and about equal in length, the middle lobe broad-ovate and nearly blunt: spathe about the length of the leaf, with a short green tube, and an elongated lance-oblon
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 146. Arum Italicum (X K). 4. PalsBStinum, Boiss. {A. sdnetum, Hort.). Black Calla. Solomon's Lily. Lvs. cordate-hastate, 6 in. broad across the base and about equal in length, the middle lobe broad-ovate and nearly blunt: spathe about the length of the leaf, with a short green tube, and an elongated lance-oblong-tapering limb, which is greenish on the outside and continuous black-purple within, the tip sometimes recurving: spadix, shorter than the spathe, the upper part dark colored. Palestine. 5509. Gn. 45, p. 311.—Perhaps the most popular Arum at present, being grown ui pots as an oddity. 5. orientUe, Bieb. A foot high: lvs. brownish, broadly hastate-sagitate, the front lobe oblong-acute : spathe tube oblong-ovoid and white within, the limb ovate to oblong and intense black-purple (rarely pale), resembling A, maeulatum.—A. hardy species from Asia Minor, running into many forms. Some of the plants referred here are A. nigrum, rariolatum, Nordmanni, gratum, Schott.; A. elongatum and A. albispathum, Steven (not A. albispathum, Hort., which is A. Ital- icum) . BB. Tuber ovoid or oblong, propagating horizontally, the lvs. and peduncles arising from the apex: lvs. appearing before or with the spathe. 6. macvlktam, Jjinn. {A. vulg&re, ham.). Loeds-and- Ladies. Cuckoo Pint. Wake Robin (in England). About a foot high : lvs. usually black-spotted, hastate or sagittate, the front lobe triangular ovate, about as high as the spathe : the spathe swollen at its base, the margins of the lance-ovate limb becoming inrolled, spotted with purple : spadix shorter than the spathe, purple. Eu.—A hardy species, of many forms. A form with spotless lvs. and a whitish tube with a medial pur- p
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