G. R. Rowell on the Beneficent Distribution, §c. 89 
pre. —I have not seen this plant from the United States. 
Azotta.—A. microphylia, Klfs., from California, is certainly 
ditties ‘Hoh A. caroliniana, though Hooker unites them 
latter species was collected by Drummond about New Orleans. 
Arr. IX.—On the Sea ts Disritation ee > Sense of at ; 
G. R. Row 
Read before the Ashmolean Society of Oxford, 3d May, 1847, and communicated b 
Author, to the Edinb. New Phil. Jour., vol. xiii, p. 385, from which it is here ced, 
Havine had, in my youth, an aversion to animal food, from 
an idea that it was cruel to destroy life for the purpose of ob- 
taining it, I have been led by that feeling, and a few rather ex- 
ol ireumstances. which have come under my notice, to 
other senses; it is given as wadbete ‘mM as great a 2 sia as it is 
necessary and useful to them; that no animals have a greater 
sense of pain than is necessary. ort e preservation of the class to 
which they belong ; that those which are dieigond for food, suf- 
fer little when killed, in comparison to what other animals would 
1 from the same infliction ; and that some are totally devoid of 
the sense of pain. ' 
ulo ascendente, oblique pecutiforms versus basin angustato, margine superiori mi- 
nore, inferiori magis convexo, lateribus compresso; rhaphide brevi, dente inferiori 
a divergente, superiori a ullo ; receptaculo coriaceo indurato, usco-atro, cic- 
ribus scabrato, paleis angustis persistentibus tecto ; soris utrum- 
ten “fabeliformibus, margine arcuatim excisis, apice integris, 
utrumque he -pilo 
Ver distinct ‘rom ‘the ead North American Marsilex, it approaches an unde- 
d species from New Holland, M. Drummondii, A. Braun, mss., nearer than 
ea er. ade I form a called st stomata, (vid e this Journal, l.c.,) I find now 
4 be not hing but the sicatriz, or the place o of insertion of the pale: #. In the other 
; rican species : these scars have a margin, which is wanting in M. 
a a s M. mucronata, A. Braun, collected by Geyer in the North- 
est sritry, Chis Journal, |. . ) 
ae fifth fius bee n collected, 1837, by T. Lindheimer in Western Texas, on the 
er aoa the Spesioabs River 
4 elm. Mss. ; stipitibud sitigolis e basi petioli oeinre e 
ms idio bre revioribus receptaculo as ascendente, oblique obovato, m naneoe 8 
roe vin convexo subrecto, lateribus compresso ; rhaphide brevi, dentibus. approx 
riore inferiorem paulo oOo gine brevibus, adpresss, parsi 
Fees tubro-marginat ning ue 9-10; foliolis a nae ° 
apice i tor dentais, Tg od sires 
ph om 
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