To mention this botanical bit, I first have to confess to reading the comics section of the Sunday newspaper, which always reminds me of childhood, with the color section spread on the living room carpet and my father reading the "funnies" to us children. Today the strip "Mark Trail," which imparts nature lore to children, featured stinking flowers. Three of the four got their taxonomic names (Stapelia gigantea, Dracunculus vulgaris, Rafflesia arnoldii, all spelled right), but the fourth is identified only as "the titan arum, or 'corpse flower'." Just to keep the strip G rated, one assumes, but the illustrator has added a sly comment by depicting a curvy woman casting a dubious glance at Amorphophallus titanum. Jane McGary Portland, Oregon, USA