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ment, much resembling the “ Rockaway” before described, being, 
like that, adapted for ploughing a passage through deep sand and 
mud, or surmounting an occasional stump or fallen tree with as 
much safety and expedition, as these very usual impediments in a 
traveller’s way in this country will allow of its doing. Chenopo- 
dium murale grew near our starting point at Camden, an appa- 
rently uncommon plant in America, and perhaps introduced. I re- 
marked it, however, in some plenty under walls at the Castle gar- 
dens in New York, and very commonly about Norfolk, Virginia, 
corresponding exactly with specimens from the Isle of Wight. 
Taking the road through Long-a-Coming, we struck across an 
intricate tract of forest ground, intersected with swamps, and 
about three, p.m., reached Batsto, a small village in the heart of 
the Pine Barrens. ; 
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On CONFERVA ÆGAGROPILA, Linn. By the Rev. T. SALwaY. 
The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for some fine living 
specimens of the curious aquatic, Conferva ægagropila, (Globe- 
Conferva, or Moss-Balls,) found in some northern fresh-water 
lakes, to Mrs. Stackhouse of Acton Scott, Shrewsbury. This 
lady has been very successful, if I may so say, in cultivating it. 
She has had them for nine or ten years: they have grown and 
increased, as it would appear, from detached portions of the old 
balls which become loose and fall to pieces. They are found 
m a lake near Ellesmere, in Shropshire, and have flourished 
ma pond of nearly stagnant water at Acton Scott, where the 
Water is rather hard than soft. At Ellesmere they roll about the 
gravelly bed of the lake, and are blown on shore in storms. 
Wishing to obtain still further information respecting the growth 
and mode of increase of Conferva ægagropila, that lady most 
obligingly sent me the following letter, addressed to her by the 
Rev. T. Salway :— 
“The lake in which I found them, Culmere Mere, is so far 
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