Remarks on Hyla femoralis, fyc. 93 



Description. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, margins plane, 

 without serratures, minutely toothed near the summit : nerve 

 distinct and continued to the tip or apex. Stems short : fruit- 

 stalk terminal, half an inch in length : calyptra hairy : theca 

 cylindrical upright : lid conic : beak short and a little recurved. 



Leaf magnified : entire plant : and hairy 

 calyptra little magnified. 



Habitat. On gravelly banks in woods. Littleton, Coos 

 County, New Hampshire. 



Observation. I had the pleasure of detecting this little and 

 interesting species, in the several stages of its growth, with and 

 without its calyptra, during a short residence in the vicinity of the 

 White Mountains, in the winter of 1837-8. Its diminutive size, 

 and smoothly margined leaves seem to denote its variation from 

 any previously described species. 



THIS species of Hyla, called peeping frog, seems to be not 

 well determined. In the Catalogue of the Reptilia of Massa- 

 chusetts, it seems to be considered as Hyla Squirella ? Daudin; 

 the note of interrogation implying doubt as to the correct spe- 

 cific distinction. Yet the Hyla Squirella of the Southern States 

 and our own cannot be confounded. This, with the Hyla versi- 

 color or common tree frog, or tree-toad as it is more usually 

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