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ded to, and which is eminently characteristic both of the Canaries and 
Madeira. 
The Kleinia, Euphorbia and Plocama are three plants which the 
voyager recognizes long before reaching the shore; and they are so 
singular, whether as regards habit, habitat, or botanical characters, that 
rm the western extreme of the Old World, of what was the whole 
world to civilized man, till within the last very few hundred years; 
d ope, constitute 
opened 
higher and cooler parts of the islands rely o 
temperate climate. ere he may & 
and o xpect to find new types 
of plants; for the Mountain Flora of Western Tropica 
| Africa is wholly 
—— without feeling that no ot a: — 
to which such a motto still applies with so mu . 
2. On the fundamental type and homologies of the Vertebrate Skel- 
elon; by Prof. Owen, (from the Literary Gazette; Ann. 
ag. Nat. 
Hist., xix, 202, March, 1847.)—The Professor commenced by alluding 
