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"Family ( Genus Paradoxurus. 



Hemigalidce. \ Ambliodon. 



These have been known since 1814, but M. Jourdan, of Ligon, has recently 

 ^examined them in the museum of that place, the results of which we now give. 

 — Athenceum, as quoted in the Cheltenham Chronicle, April 19, 1838, communi- 

 cated by Peter Rylands, Esq. 



Mode of repelling the Wolf. — A few days ago, a boy ten years old, was 

 gathering sticks in a wood near Sauqueville, in the Seine Inferieure, when he 

 observed a she Wolf carry one of her cubs in her mouth into some bushes, and 

 hide it. As soon as the animal had departed, the boy went and took the cub, 

 but the mother heard him and returned upon him. The bold boy, instead of 

 being intimidated, made a stand, and drew his knife, which he flourished in the 

 eyes of the assailant, who, either from fear, or, which is more probable, from care 

 of her remaining young ones, retreated and suffered her antagonist to carry off 

 the prize. For this trait of courage the mayor of his commune has given him a 

 reward of 30fr.— Bath Post, April 28, 1838. 



Arrow Head. — The head of an arrow, made of iron, and from its singular 

 shape appearing to have belonged to some of the savage tribes of Africa, has been 

 found in the body of an Eagle which was killed in Laconia. — Athenaum, quoted 

 in Chelt. Chron., Ap. 19, 1838, communicated by P. Rylands, Esq. 



BOTANY. 



Numerical Estimate of the British Flora. — Having occasion to make an 

 estimate of the British Flora, in connection with a paper which I am preparing 

 for our Natural History Society, it has occurred to me that it might be both 

 useful and interesting to the readers of The Naturalist. The Phaenogamous 

 plants are taken from the Flora of Berwick, as quoted in Mr. Watson's Geo- 

 graphical Distribution af British Plants ; the Ferns and their allies from Mr. 

 Francis's work, and the remaining orders from the second volume of Sir W. J. 

 Hooker's British Flora. Of course the latter orders are not so complete or 

 numerous as they will be when the various naturalists who have been investi- 

 gating those tribes, since the publication of the last-mentioned work, shall have 

 made known their discoveries. I believe that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley has 

 published descriptions of some new genera and species of Fungi in the Magazine 

 of Zoology and Botany which I have not included in this estimate. 



Polypodiacece, 35 ; Gleicheniacece, 3 ; Osmundacece, 1 ; Ophioglossiacece, 2 ; 

 Lycopodiacece, 7 ; Marsileacece, 1 ; Equisetacece, 8 ; Musci, 309 ; Hepaticce, 93 ; 

 Lichenes, 420 ; Characece*,8 ; Algae, 516 ; Fungi\, 1,383. The great division 



* This has most probably been included in the estimate of phaenogamous plants. 

 + Agaricus alone contains 333 species ; Pesiza has IOfi ; and Spheeria 201. 



