6. Aroidae.—Arum Family

Herbs with an exceedingly acrid, colorless juice, and having a fleshy corm or rhizome. Inflorescence a spadix usually surrounded by a spathe. Fruit a berry.


A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.