The toad -flax may 

 or may not be fragrant 

 according to the season. 

 The late autumn blos- 

 soms are generally faintly 

 odorous, but a cluster of the 

 earliest bloom is redolent. The 

 larger Smilacina is also some- 

 what whimsical. Perhaps the too 

 fastidious nostril might take ex- 

 ception to the elder and the cor- 

 al-root as hardly entitled to the 



attribute of fragrance, relegating them >to a front seat, perhaps, 

 among a scented group deservedly in bad odor, and which, more- 



A FRAGRANT GROUP ("PYROLAS"). 



