178 REMARKABLE TREES. 



Fig. 8.— The extremity of one of the maxillary setae, 



,, 9.— The extremity of the fleshy sheath of the rostrum, showing 

 the minute terminal pads corresponding to the labial lobes of 

 the diptera. 



,, 10. — The muscular structure within the base of the setse, showing 

 the spiral arrangement of the muscles which enclose the 

 l^harynx. 



,, 11. — Antennae of C. lanarius, showing the enlarged second joint. 



,, 12. — The two terminal joints of antenna (nymph), enlarged. 



,, 13. — A group of characteristic flattened bristles, situated in tufts 

 on the sides of the abdomen of larva and nymph. 



,, 14. — Tibia and tarsus of Capsus lanarius. 



IRcmarJ^able Zvcce. 



IN the Old World the greatest tree is the African Baobab, and 

 in the !<iew World the Wellingtonia. At the mouth of the 

 Senegal River specimens of the Baobab have been measured 

 of over one hundred feet in circumference, though it is never more 

 than sixty feet in height and becomes hollow at an early age. Dr. 

 Livingstone found one in which thirty men could sleep comfort- 

 ably ; and Humboldt tells of one in Senegambia wherein the 

 negroes held their meetings. Adamson has calculated that some 

 of these trees must be at least 5000 years of age, by which time 

 they are thirty feet in diameter. 



Among curiosities there is the bottle tree of Brazil, which 

 swells from a slender base until, at half its height, the diameter is 

 equal to the altitude, a similar genus being found in tropical 

 Australia, 



We must mention the so-called " living stones " of the Falkland 

 Islands, where, owing to the strong Polar wind, it is impossible for 

 trees to grow erect, so Nature has made amends by furnishing a 

 supply of wood in the most curious shape imaginable. Here and 

 there are to be found in the islands singular shaped blocks of what 

 appear to be weather-beaten and moss-covered boulders of various 

 sizes. These boulders cannot be turned over, they being tied to 

 the earth by roots of extraordinary strength. No other country in 

 the world has such a peculiar forest growth, and it is impossible to 

 work these odd-shaped blocks into fuel, because the wood is per- 

 fectly devoid of grain, and appears to be nothing but a twisted 

 mat of fibres. — IVm. Norman Brown in Gardener's Magazine. 



