Wild Plants Needing Protection: I. Jack in the Pulpit (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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There are usually two leaves, which are three-parted, graceful in shape and beautifully veined. The leaf-stalks are sheathing at base and enclose that of the flower-cluster. The staminate plants are often smaller and paler than the pistfllate and wither as soon as they have discharged their pollen. Their flowers consist of only 2 - 4 almost sessile, white or purple anthers, borne on the fleshy mucilaginous base of the spadix. The pistils are crowded together, without calyx or corolla, green, globose and tipped with a sessile white stigma; occasionally a few stamens may be found above the pistils. The fruit cluster, when ripe, is usually prostrate, from 1-3 inches long and the berries are bright scarlet.

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