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and rain. The repose is complete in January, February, and up to 
April, during a period of 87 days. The Liriodendron tulipifera, also 
a native of North America, has a complete repose of 151 days, 
The apple and pear trees generally begin to lose their leaves in De- 
cember. They come into flower, at Funchal, by the 7th of April, and 
their fruit is collected in August. There are, however, varieties of 
apple and pear trees which flower and produce fruit twice in the year, 
and one variety of apple is perpetually in flower an i peach 
trees about the 4th of November already exhibit some flowers amongst 
their leaves; they then, to the great astonishment of M. Heer, contin- 
ing in abundance during the months of December and Jan- 
uary, and the fruit came to maturity from the 23d of February to the 
end of the summer. In February there were flowers on the upper 
parts of the trees and fruit below, and it was also then the leaves were 
renewed, the interval between the falling and shooting of the leaves 
being scarcely sensible. The vines around Funchal began to lose their 
leaves about the 24th of October. The soil of the vineyards in winter 
offered the singular appearance of being covered with the flowers of 
Oralis speciosa (a Cape plant) and of Calendula arvensis. New 
leaves appeared by the end of March, and by the 8th of April the 
vines were completely in leaf, with young floral grapes. The flowers 
open at the end of April and the beginning of May, and the vintage 
takes a in September. The repose lasts 157 days. 
will appear from the following dimensions :—length along the pera.» 
curve, 6 ft. 8 in.; from the base straight to the point, 4 ft. 23 19-3 ue 
feet from the base, to which length I suppose was imbedded in pre 
straight to the point, 3 ft. 32 in. The dimensions of the jaw are— wre 
the angle to the symphysis 19 in., from the condyloid process ' 
cess 18 in., from base of angle to top of the coracoid process © 
he jaw contained only one molar; this tooth was very eraser 
width of the upper surface 34 in., the length 13, of which 43 hal 
The remains were found 40 feet below the surface and 60 above tht 
level of the lake, in a layer of sand, superimposed on which were pai 
cessive layers of cemented gravel and sand, the layers of ees of 
