266 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | November, 
cited by the smell of roast beef and a child’s by the mere 
sight of candy. But that is because the man wants to eat 
the beef, and the child to eat the candy. Now, when the 
smell of parsley excites the salivary glands, one does not 
necessarily want to eat the parsley. 
There are other appetizing odors, for instance, that of 
oak sap, which hangs around a saw-mill, but it does not 
excite the saliva. It stirs some of the deeper digestive fluids, 
probably the gastric juice. 
Opposed to this last is the nauseating odor which belongs 
to the order Solanacez. Lifting up tomato vines on a dewy 
and carnation. weet odors are destructive of appetite 
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: fe ov eamabelaga nauseating. They must, therefore, have 
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Opposite effect. Scarcely anybody will acknowledge that he 
likes the smell of musk, but nevertheless the perfumers regard — 
it as a principal source of profit. 
. here 1s a delightful fragrance belonging to flowers of 
widely different species which agree in having a waxy tes 
ure, a white color, and a disposition to open, or to keep 
