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Correspondence. 
[August, 
THE DRAGON PLANT ( ARUM DRACUNCULUS). 
horticultural dynasty, when the garden was in ^ posse 
gether. These ^hTtime^when .he 
sp^td ^e^p.e HningSf ^ 
csss* 
at some distance, and a C0ffl P“y J ^hem wer e ikfwsca vomifo- 
“! TcIsX and ^ 8 ,,^;“/ day*! odou? 
[ h aVe"c C ea-I r ^^ S oT e a’fly was observable near the 
P,a T n his surprised me, for in previous years ^noticed a longer 
duration of the disgusting sme . spat hes were a little 
odoriferous emission, and as soon as t P bottom 
withered they were cut off and examined At ^hejer^botto^ 
of the interior of the spathe, in one , 1 1 the burst 
dead flies ; in the other, six. They had crep ■ “> - n search of 
^ the odour of 
Car On°e n 'or two points are curious :-The precise resemblance be- 
tween the odour of the plant 
?oZ7llZ J'taHn the S 0 Z» .°here he was m no decom positron gmng 
Bu^what fr^dablt U ^° K ^ 
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