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carpus foetidus), pear (Pyrus communis), choke cherry 

 (Prunus Virgiuiaua), dockmackie {Viburnum accrifolium) , 

 arrow -wood [Viburnum dcntatum) and corn chamomile 

 (Authemis arvensis). Other species have been reported, but 

 in such cases it is not apparent whether it is the flower or the 

 herbage that is ill-scented. The blossoms of the papaw 

 (Asimina triloba) should be included in the list of odorous 

 flowers, but whether among those that are sweet-scented or ill- 

 scented seems a question. The flowers have a strong yeasty 

 smell, not particularly agreeable but not exactly repellant. If 

 correspondents will send in separate lists of ill-scented flowers 

 and plants with ill-scented foliage, we will later publish more 

 complete lists of both. 



New Species in Our Gardens. — No plants go unchal- 

 lenged so completely as those of widespread, common, and 

 ancient cultivation. The treatment of them is particularly 

 traditional. There may be no "types" representing them in 

 herbaria. Origins may be repeated, perhaps even from the 

 days of the herbalists. Statements are passed on from book 

 to book and generation to generation. The plants are taken 

 for granted. Yet when we come to study them critically, we 

 find that they may contain new species which have passed all 

 this time unrecognized. Any field that has long been neglected 

 is sure to yield new harvests. The cultivated plants now pr< »- 

 vide some of the best botanizing grounds. — L. H. Bailey in 

 Science. 



Quadrilliums. — Trillium grandiflorum is a very local 

 plant in the Lake George flora and I know of only two or three 

 places where it is at all abundant, but in these places it is a fine 

 sight in May when it flowers. Among the' hundreds of plants 

 I am usually able to find three or four four-parted wake-robins. 

 I have note of finding such plants as early as 1893. Several 

 times I have transplanted one or two of the plants, but they 

 either do not come true next season or they fail to appear. I 



