Jack-in-the-Pulpit, or Indian Turnip, a woodland herb closely related to the calla. It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida and east Kansas. The last leaf on the flower stalk widens into a broad blade that curves in a protecting green hood over the flower, making the "pulpit" or spathe. A wrinkled, turnip-shaped corm confers the name of Indian turnip. The green spadix standing in the spathe gives the children's name which the poet has well expressed: Jack-in-the-Pulpit Preaches today, Under the green trees Just over the way. Green is his surplice, Green are his bands; In his queer little pulpit The little priest stands.