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Wild Plants Needing Protection by Elizabeth G. Britton This is a LibriVox recording.
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Wild Plants Needing Protection.
Reprinted without change of paging from the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, May 1912.
Number 1.
Jack in the Pulpit.
Jack in the Pulpit.
Ericema Trifilum.
when the trees are unfolding their fresh green leaves in may and june and the violets and spring beauties are in bloom jack-in-the-pulpit may be found in moist woodlands and on shady banks
where the earth is soft and loamy it is a perennial herb and if left undisturbed it sometimes lives many years and attains a height of three feet with a subterranean corm as large as an apple this corm has given to the plant the name of indian turnip
though it is not edible when raw, for it has an acrid taste, irritating to the tongue, on account of the acicular crystals of calcium oxalate which it contains, known as refeeds.
It propagates by forming smaller secondary corms around the older ones, and in this way new plants are started.
it often bears no fruit in the vicinity of new york not only on account of the depredations of children but because it is dioecious and the proper insect visitors on which it is dependent for pollination seem to be lacking
usually the leaves turn yellow and the plant disappears in june and july though this varies in different portions of its range which extends throughout the eastern and central states and as far north as nova scotia and ontario and south to florida and louisiana
It bears what would appear to most children to be a single large flower, but it is really a cluster of small, simple flowers, born at the base of a fleshy, club-shaped spadix, which is enclosed by the convolute base of the spade, the summit of which arches over it, and is either pale green or a dark, glossy brown, often striped with white.
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 pistillate and wither as soon as they have discharged their pollen.
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