1^0 THE iS^ATUEAL HISTORY EEYIEW. 



rican shrub in a latitude only about four degrees to tbe northward of 

 Massachusetts. Professor George Lawson, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

 has favoured me with a flowering specimen of -the Calluna, sent 

 through the post, and located by its accompanying label at " St. 

 Ann's Bay, County of Inverness, Cape Breton Island, August 30, 

 1864." I do not detect any constant difference between this example 

 from Cape Breton and the Calluna of Europe and its islands. 

 Among two score specimens in my herbarium, varying somewhat 

 among themselves, I find some of similar slender growth, and with 

 the flowers equally large as in this American example ; also seem- 

 ingly vnth the flowers equally globular, through the curling inwards 

 of the coloured calyx, although that alleged difference between the 

 European and Massachusetts flowers is not so readily judged of in a 

 dried example. The flowers on the little specimen from Cape Breton 

 are few and distant, comparatively with the European examples in 

 my own herbarium ; but I believe to have seen them quite as 

 sparingly scattered on liviug English plants of the Calluna. 



Hewett C. Watson. 



8. DiSCOYEEY OF AsPLENIUM YIEIDE, IN NeW BeUNSWICK. 



I have just received a specimen of Aspleniiim viride from G. E. 

 Matthew, Esq., of the Natural History Society, St. John's, New Bruns- 

 wick, gathered on sea-clifls, Taylor's Island. This discovery is a most 

 interesting one in connection with the glacial migration of Scandina- 

 vian plants over the North American continent ; the plant being 

 common in the subalpine regions of Europe, and also found in the 

 Eocky Mountains, but not occurring in Greenland or in any other 

 part of North America. 



J. D. HOOKEE. 



9. The Taetaeian Antelope alive in ENaLAND.. 



A recent interesting addition to the Zoological Society's series of 

 living Mammals is a young male example of the Tartarian Antelope 

 (Saiga tartarica), an inhabitant of the Steppes of Central Asia, which 



