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trunk is overgrown by parasites. Foreign tropical trees 
are cultivated about the houses everywhere, bread-fruit 
Fallen Trunk overgrown by Parasites. 
trees and Ameixas, a kind of plum of the hawthorn family, 
bananas, etc. The bamboo of the East Indies also is used 
to form avenues in Rio de Janeiro and its environs. The 
alleys of bamboo in the grounds of the palace at San Chris- 
tovao are among its most beautiful ornaments. 
Mr. Agassiz has been surprised to find that shrimps of 
considerable size are common in all the brooks and even 
in the highest pools of Tijuca. It seems strange to meet 
with Crustacea of marine forms in mountain streams. 
To-day we are kept in the house by a violent rain, but 
there is enough to do in looking over specimens, working 
up journals, writing letters, &c., to prevent the time from 
hanging heavy on our hands. To-morrow we return to 
town. 
