204 Animals with more than Two Eyes. 
blance in the main to those of England, yet I have met with many 
forms utterly unfamiliar to me. One in particular is a shrub 
known locally as Dogwood ; it bears a conspicuous white flower 
measuring about four inches across. On examining it more 
closely, the inflorescence bears a superficial resemblance to that 
of the Composite, and may be one of their collateral relations. 
The apparent white petals are white bracts, from four to five in 
number, and the florets are set thickly upon a flat receptacle, 
having all their stamens free. A small plant much resembling at 
a distance our wood anemone, has exactly the same characteristics 
on examination—namely, four white bracts and florets, each with 
its pistil and free stamens. 
I feel that of all the interesting things which could be said about 
my present home, I have said very little. But it is impossible to 
obtain any information either from books or by word of mouth, 
so far as my experience has gone at present, and I have been able 
only to note down what I have seen. I have, however, omitted to 
mention the curious shell-mounds found on every part of the coast. 
They are made up almost entirely of clam-shells which formerly 
constituted one of the principal articles of diet of the Indians. 
Where the new roads have cut near the shore, they have been 
excavated for many feet through these shell-mounds, and I myself 
saw a pine tree overthrown which had been growing on the top of 
one ; a tree which a gentleman (an expert in forestry) said must 
at least be two hundred years old. The shells are very white and 
brittle, looking much like the fossil shells in the Red Crag of 
Suffolk. In the United States these mounds are found under 
circumstances pointing to a very remote origin ; sometimes in 
places fifteen miles from the present sea coast, and at varying 
depths under more recent deposits. 
Vancouver. 
Animals with more than Two Eyes.” 
By Henry WALKER, F.G.S. 
ES ! animals with more than two eyes. 
But are there really such creatures, you will ask ? 
Do we mean real animals and real eyes, or allegorical 
animals and allegorical eyes? We have certainly 
heard of such creatures in ancient mythology. Argus 
is said to have had as many as a hundred eyes. 
* From the ‘‘ Youth’s Companion.” 
