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. 



