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situations on the hills and plains. Almost all merit introduction to 

 the garden for the beauty of their flowers, which, at first sight, are 

 mistaken for those of the Senecio elegans, Linn, a species which 

 should be obtained, and particularly its variety, with double flowers. 



Chcetanthera Chilensis. D. C. ciliata. R. and Paw and two others, 

 the description of which I have not seen* They grow in the dry 

 pastures of the plain, and in arid sites on the mountain. They are 

 so common in some places that their flowers form a carpet, whicl 

 is quite agreeable to the eye, and may be seen from a great distance, 



Chcetomium globosum. Kunz. A small fungus which is found on 

 the dead and rotten shoots of plants in gardens during the winter. 



Chara clavata. Bertero. In marshes and in some stagnant wa- 

 ters. It bears some resemblance to the C. vulgaris, Linn, but dif- 

 fers from it by constant and well defined characteristics. 



Cheiranthus incanus, and C. Cheiri. Linn. Cultivated in gar- 

 dens, and known by the names of aleli bianco, Colorado and cana. 

 The varieties with double flowers are not so frequent as they should 

 be, and might be easily obtained by different means of propagation, 

 which should be known to gardeners and amateurs. 



To be Continued. 



Art. IX. — Notice of the Mine of Spathic Iron (Steel ore) of New 

 Milford, and of the Iron Works of Salisbury, in the state of Con- 

 necticut; by Charles U. Shepard, Assistant to the Professor of 

 Chemistry, Mineralogy, &c., and Lecturer on Botany, in Yale 



College. 



Mine of Spathic Iron in New Milford. 



About the middle of the last century, as is well known, the land 

 in most of the hilly towns in the western part of Connecticut, be- 

 longed to small companies of settlers, who divided it out into ex- 

 tensive tracts among themselves, or to others, at prices regulated by 

 its supposed value for agricultural purposes. This was the case with 

 the town of New Milford, in Litchfield county. Traces of ore being 

 accidentally discovered on a mountain situated upon Shepaug riv- 

 er, hopes were immediately entertained that a silver mine would be 

 discovered in that neighborhood. Accordingly, one of the company, 

 by the name of Hurlburt, purchased the entire mountain ; which ex- 



