Megaclinium purpureorhachis

Arisaema speciosum (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)

Arisaema concinnum, an example of a stoloniferous arisaema (Zons 5-8, 8-6).

The Metropolitan Museum owns more than forty chessboards dating from the Renaissance through the twentieth century; some private collectors have hundreds of boards. Medieval chessboards, on the other hand, rarely survive in any collection, and our knowledge of them depends largely on written sources.