Catalogue of Plants, &c. 255 
have not mouths like eels, but there is at one end, an enlar- 
gement of their size, resembliog the end of an Elephants 
Trunk, apparently for the purpose of suction. 
The Crickets, after delivery, seem to make some efforts to 
withdraw from the water; and when there is no surf, they 
succeed ; but they appear exhausted, and many are found 
dead at the water’s edge. 
After a short time the Eels collect themselves into small 
parcels, entwined together, when they resemble unravelled 
thread, and they sink to the bottom when they soon cease 
to have motion. The approach of winter has hitherto con- 
cealed them from further observation. 
Catalogue of Canadian Plants collected in 1827 
& presented to the Literary & Historical So- 
ciely, bythe Rk. H, the Countess of Dalhousie. 
MONANDRIA, Eriophorum, 
Scirpus, 
DIANDRIA, Limnetis, 
Panicum capilare, 
Utricularia, Digitaria, 
re Milium, 
Gratiola, Aira, 
Lindernia dilatata, Aira, 
Veronica serpyllifolia, Hierochloa, 
V. . « scutellata, 
Lycopus americanus, 
Circwa latiteana, 
Anthoxanthom odoratum. 
TRIANDRIA, 
Iris virginica, 
Poa trivialis, 
P. nemoralis, 
P. 
Bromus, 
Avena, 
TETRANDRIA. 
Houstonia ewrulea, 
Goa Mitchella 
