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Orontium (one of many names arbitrarily applied by Linnaeus; he probably had in mind some water plant growing in the Syrian river Orontes). Araceae. A hardy native aquatic plant, which bears in early spring yellow "clubs" on white stalks. The "club" is a cylindrical spadix 1 to 2 inches long.

Spathe usually soon deciduous; fls. hermaphrodite, covering the whole spadix; sepals scale-like, imbricated upon the ovary, usually 4 in the upper and 6 in the lower fls.; ovary 1-celled; ovule solitary, semi- anatropous: fr. a green utricle.—One species, found in swamps and pools from Mass, to Fla., mostly near the seacoast, but extending as far inland as Cent. Pa. and La.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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