THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 13 



nials has the following description of the plant in its 

 catalogue : 



Ordinarily we should consider this plant tender but we 

 received our original stock from the Huachuca mountains 

 of Nevada and the plant has braved three winters with us. 

 A bushy shrub-like plant with narrow, willow-like, deep 

 glossy green foliage and in late autumn producing beauti- 

 ful fuchsia-like flowers of a dazzling crimson-scarlet. The 

 most brilliant-flowered, late-blooming perennial in our col- 

 lection. We feel justified in saying that this plant will have 

 a wide range of cultivation when better known. 



FRAGRANT WILDFLOWERS 



T is astonishing that more attention has not been paid to 

 our fragrant wildflowers. The botanical manuals usually 

 mention the possession of fragrance when this is among the 

 more noticeable of the plant's characteristics, but otherwise 

 the perfume is likely to be overlooked although in the case of 

 our garden species the item of fragrance is considered one of 

 prime importance. It is likely that few insect pollinated plants 

 are entirely lacking in odor. The insects, at least, act as if 

 most flowers were fragrant to them, but since insects do not 

 smell with their noses as mammals do it is likely that our list 

 of fragrant flowers would be very different from that compiled 

 by a bee if such a thing were possible. 



A most interesting list of fragrant wildflowers of New 

 England and New York by John Burroughs, published in 

 "Pepacton" is here given as a basis upon which a more ex- 

 tended and complete list may be constructed. Some mention 

 of the subject in this magazine will be found in the following 

 references: 7:73, 8:16, 10:73, 17:113, 21:35, 63. 



