Aleutian Islands and Alaska southward to California, to 
about 40° of latitude. he high Jatitudinal extension, or 
rather existence, of this plant, is accounted for, partly, at 
least, by its being an inhabitant of swamps. 
C. A. Geyer, who collected specimens on the Coeur 
d’Alene River, Idaho, states that it grew in deep, rich, 
vegetable mould, and that its scarlet fruit was a favourite 
food of the bear. 
Lysichitum camtschatcense, Schott, varies very much in 
size from different localities; the leaves being from a foot 
to nearly three feet in length, and the spathe, including 
peduncle, is sometimes as much as eighteen inches long. 
The fertile part of the spadix is from one inch and a half 
to nearly six inches long. The late Professor H. N. 
Moseley, who collected a specimen in Oregon, labelled it 
“skunk cabbage,” a name applied in Canada and the 
Eastern United States to the closely allied Symplocarpus 
fetidus, Salisb. The latter is figured in the Botanical 
Magazine, t. 836, under the name of Pothos fetidus, Ait., 
and also t. 3224. 
Symplocarpus, as well as Lysichitum, is a monotype, and 
it inhabits Japan as well as Hastern N. America. But, 
improbable as it seems, there are many more plants 
‘common to Eastern Asia and Hastern N. America than 
there are common to Eastern Asia and Western N. 
America. 
The figure was prepared from a clump growing in a 
wet, shady corner of the Himalayan section of the Tem- 
perate House, Kew, and Mr. Watson notes that it had 
previously been unsuccessfully tried in the Bog Garden in 
the open air, In its present position it is flourishing, and 
perfectly at home. 
Kew is indebted to Mr. James R. Anderson, Deputy 
Minister of Agriculture, British Columbia, for tubers, sent 
in 1901. ‘The plant of previous cultivation, referred to by 
Mr. Watson, was apparently of Japanese origin, as there 
is a leaf in the Herbarium labelled: “ Lysichiton japonicus 
from North Japan, garden specimen, Aug. 5, 1886.” 
his leaf is about two feet six inches long, so that the 
plant was not wanting in vigour. The reason why it did 
not flower is not easily explained, because M. W. Gorman, 
who collected the plant in Alaska, notes on the label that — 
