148 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1771. 



sulcated on each side, hid within the tube of the corol. Pistil. Germ round- 

 ish, truncate, retuse, smooth. Style filiform, length of stamens. Stigma 

 thickened, bifid. 



XXXI F". Account of a Mole* from North America. By the Hon. Daines Bar- 



rivgton, F.R.S. p. 292. 

 This species of mole much resembles that of Europe in its general appearance, 

 except in point of colour : to show however that there is a very material and 

 specific difference between the two animals, Mr. B. sent the head of the com- 

 mon English mole, which contains all the teeth belonging to each jaw. The 

 American specimen was not indeed so perfect in this respect; but a sufficient 

 number of teeth remained, to show the distinction between these two sorts of 

 moles. In the European, there are 6 cutting teeth in the upper jaw, which are 

 followed by 2 canine ones. In the American, on the other hand, there are 2 

 very long and large cutting teeth in the centre, calculated to fill the vacancy in 

 the lower jaw, which contains only 2 short cutting teeth, followed immediately 

 by 2 long canine ones. In the lower jaw of the European mole, however, there 

 are 8 small cutting, without the intervention of any canine teeth. 



XXXV. Experiments made in North fVales, to ascertain the Different Quantities 

 of Rain, which fell in the Same Time, at Different Heights. By the Hon. 

 , Daines Barrington, F.R.S. p. 294. 



Mr. B. having procured 2 proper rain-gages, he sent them to Mr. Meridith 

 Hughes, of Bala, in Merionethshire, a very ingenious land surveyor ; and di- 

 rected him to place one of the rain-gages at the top of Rennig, which is about 4 

 miles west of Bala, and is commonly considered as the 5th mountain of North 

 Wales, in point of height.-f- Mr. B. directed the other rain-gage to be fixed 

 near a house, called Bochyrhaidr, about half a mile distant from Rennig; and so 

 as that the rain might not be impeded, when the wind blew over the mountain 

 towards the point where the lower rain-gage was placed. Proper precautions 

 were also taken, that neither cattle, nor any other accident, should interfere with 

 the experiment. 

 . Being desirous to know, with some degree of precision, the height of this 



• It is hardly possible from this very brief description to particularize the animal intended ; but it 

 should seem, from the account of the teeth, to be some species of Mus, and not of Talpa. 



f I rather suppose it however to be only the 6th, and should range them thus, according to their 

 comparative heights : Carnedd Llewelin, Snowdon, Cader Idrys, Arran Mowddy, Glider, and 

 Rennig. I place Carnedd Llewelin before Snowdon, because I carried a water level to the top of 

 the latter, and conceived Carnedd Llewelin to be higher ; perhaps the difference may be only a few 

 yards. B. — Orig. 



