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them on the sandy knolls in the timber. — Mrs. Ida B. Stevens, 

 Des Moines, lozva. [If Mrs. Stevens refers to Camassia 

 esciilenta, or C. Fraseri, as she probably does, it may be said 

 that it does not appear to be fragrant in most of its range. It 

 is practically inodorous here. There is a larger species, 

 Camassia quamash in the Northwest. Perhaps this is the 

 species reported as fragrant. — Bd.'\ 



I see that you are leaving out one very malodorous 

 flower from your Eastern list ; or perhaps this is "personal 

 equation," but it used to smell most villianously to me. This 

 is Trillium sessile, which was our commonest species in 

 Northern Kentucky. It had a smell like that which some 

 snakes give off when they are enraged — vile and sickening. 

 All over eastern Colorado and southward into New Mexico 

 Argemone intermedia is common and known as soap-weed 

 It has decidedly saponaceous properties. — /. C. Nelson, Salem, 

 Oregon. [The list of malodorous flowers was published on 

 page 65 of the volume for 1918. Additional flowers that are 

 ill-scented are desired for this list. Should the flowers of 

 Ailanthus glandulosus be included? — Bd.'\ 



Diamond Flower in Oregon. — It might be of interest 

 to the readers of the notes on "Some Oregon Exotics" in the 

 November number of the Botanist, to know that the little cru- 

 cifer with the orbicular leaves that so long bafiled our attempts 

 at identification was at last determined by C. V. Piper as 

 lonopsidiiim acaide (Desf.) Reichenb., a native of Portugal 

 and North Africa, known to the trade as "Diamond Flower." 

 There is in the Gray Herbarium but a single specimen, from 

 Algeria and I have up to the present found no record of its 

 occurrence in the United States as an adventive species. — /. C. 

 Nelson. 



