the spathes sometimes appear through the snow. Possibly 
the local conditions were unfavourable. The same col- 
lector states that it grows in moist places and on the 
banks of creeks.—W. B. 1. : 
Descr.—A stout, glabrous marsh-herb, with a creeping 
rootstock, giving off erect, sessile tufts of leaves and 
inflorescences, Leaves erect, one to two feet and a half 
long, subsessile or base narrowed into a very stout, 
concave petiole, oblong-ovate or -lanceolate, acute or 
obtuse, thickly coriaceous, costa very broad, nerves spread- . 
ing and arching. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, stout, 
- pale green, nearly white, obscurely transversely wrinkled. 
Spathe four to six inches long, erect, deeply boat-shaped, 
elliptic in outline, acuminate, membranous, pale yellow, 
base narrowed into and resembling the peduncle for some 
length, but fissured in front. Spadix stipitate, four to six 
inches long by one-half to three-quarters of an inch in 
diameter, top rounded, dense-flowered, green, at first 
enclosed in the spathe, flowering from the base upwards ; 
stipes inserted far down in the contracted, terete base of 
the spathe, terete, green, elongating after flowering of the 
spadix to six inches or more, and freeing itself and the 
latter from the spathe. lowers all fertile, very densely 
spicate. Perianth-segments four, very unequal, variously 
compressed, fleshy, truncate, tightly embracing the stamens 
and ovary. Stamens four; filaments very unequal, broad, 
flat; anthers minute, didymous. Ovary conic-ovoid, 
fleshy, base constricted, cells two, sometimes confluent, 
one- or two-ovuled ; stigma capitellate, yellow. Berries 
partially sunk in the rhachis of the spadix, 2-celled, 
2-seeded. Seeds concave-convex, exalbuminous; embryo 
having a large radicle.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, three flowers detached from the spadix ; 2, two lobes of the perianth, 
two unequal stamens and pistil; 3, sectivn of 2-celled ovary showing the 
solitary ovules :—all enlarged ; 4, much reduced figure of entire plant. 
