194 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
got live pieces of Lysichiton from Canada last summer ; 
but they also died, and besides I am not perfectly certain 
that my discovery in Hokkaido was ordinary Lysichiton. 
In any case, it was a big Aroid, with the habit of 
Lysichiton and Symplocarpus, flowering before the 
development of its enormous leaves. But those flowers, 
I maintain it, were snowy white—far different from the 
malodorous dingy purples of the Skunk Cabbage; which, 
otherwise, I will concede, is a fine easy foliage plant for 
the bog-garden. 
