Plants from Alabama, 6) 
of it; for one of its faces exactly orb to a face ex- 
atter has a seam in 
— sufficient to raise about twenty tons of its weight. 
0 commanding position can be selected so-as to see the 
his rock has been noticed in the neighbourhood for at 
Jeast six years, but although in an field, in the imme- 
diate vicinity of Boston and Cambridge, it has hitherto at- 
tracted very little attention among the lovers of curiosities. 
No account of it has been hitherto published, as far as our 
information extends. 
** These rocks,’”” Mr. W. observes, “ are not so. rare as 
has been generally supposed. There was formerly one 
upon the Salem turnpike road, which was so nicely poised, 
that a child might move it. There are three at different 
aces in the vicinity of Providence, all still moveable; 
also one in Framingham, Mass. that was a few years since, 
and probably still is moveable, and one in Foster, R. I. 
about twenty two miles from Providence.” 
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Arr. VII.—Notice as four new species collected in Alabama; 
y M. C. Leavenworth. ‘ 
Acacia Lut«.:—Inermis, glabra. Foliis bipinnatis; Par- 
tialibus numerosissimis, lineari-oblongis. Spici sub- 
bo-is, solitariis. Pedunculis axillaribus, longissimis: 
gumine magno, obovato. Bee 
